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6If everything mic's out, you can save all the rotating assembly expenses. We rebuilt a 350 in '84-'85. It came out of a 76 K10...
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6I'll try to find the build sheet on my 400 build. 400HP was the plan. Flo-Tek heads. I called Flo-Tek and they have 400SB heads with the...
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6Looking to rebuild the original 400 SBC out of my '76 K15 and looking for some suggestions for what I should do. I have a XE262H cam I...
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6Disable the ignition, remove all the plugs, wire the throttle wide open. Crank the engine the same number of revolutions for each...
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6Seem to remember From My youth,, Yeah long time ago,, But anyways Seem to remember someone telling Me CARBON can increase compresson...
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6When you start getting above 9 or 9.5:1 on a street engine it becomes more and more important to look at quench area and dynamic...
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6Because you will destroy your quench. Lets say you are 9.5 to 1 compression at .060 quench with a cam that has a early intake valve...
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6Quench is what you are after, what pistons say on the box for compression means nothing. If you bolt vortecs on a stock small block with...
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668post replied to the thread Small Block choices: A feller has too many.Looking good! If you land @ .015" deck height to piston a .026" gasket is perfect, even better if @ .010"(yes, I'd go this tight too)
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668post reacted to ali_c20's post in the thread Small Block choices: A feller has too many with
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#3, swap the heads from #2 for higher compression and retrofit roller cam. My 0.02$ -
668post reacted to Nardulli's post in the thread Small Block choices: A feller has too many with Like.
#3 block and the 64cc heads it is. Block and heads headed to the machine shop Monday. There's .050 piston to deck clearance which is...
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6Juniors 307 with Vortec heads seems to be just fine. He bought the chineseium intake from Ebay for $150 and bolted it on. It had a small...
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6Meh. I dont like complicating things unnecessarily. I vote for 1.5" primary full-length headers and some cool mufflers with an "H"pipe...
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668post reacted to Joe Baring's post in the thread Idle Mixture Screws Do Not Adjust Anything on 1974 454. with Like.
So I have some news! I ran the truck a bit more and checked one last time for vacuum leaks with carb clean. This time I found one at the...
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668post reacted to fast 99's post in the thread Idle Mixture Screws Do Not Adjust Anything on 1974 454. with Like.
That's news to me didn't know that was copied. I don't like much of the new or reproduction parts out there. If you can rebuild/repair...
