I did some more work on the chebby

"aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe" (emaxxbl) 11/16/2018 at 21:05 • Filed to: None

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flashy picture to catch your attention.

I got most of the 350 dissembled, 7 of the 8 pistons are out and a few lifters are lightly stuck in the block but other than that everything went smoothly. I was even able to remove the harmonic balancer with a breaker bar. The bearings seem ok-ish, this engine was a “20 thousand mile” engine when i bought it, the caveat being that it was all farm miles. So basically the oil’s never been changed or any maintenance done to it. Hopefully tomorrow I can get the last piston out and hone the cylinders to get the surface rust out. Then I guess it’s new rotating assembly time, I’m shooting for about 10-10.5:1 compression and 300 at the wheels which should be very easy to accomplish.

whimpy TBI truck cam on the left

T H I C C cam

MM54 > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe 11/16/2018 at 21:29

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What sort of bottom end are you doing?

My original plan with t he 350 I bought for the chevelle was ball hone, rings, bearings, and spend the money on the top end. When I tore it down I found out it had been ‘rebuilt’ before, needed bored, and the rods were mis-matched. It’s now cascaded into it needing basically everything, which had really screwed up my budgeting for it. I’m currently trying to decide if I want to go the extra $400 for a forged crank and better rods.

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > MM54 11/16/2018 at 21:59

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I haven’t really decided yet, I’ll either go with an entire forged bottom end or just forged rods and pistons and leaving the cast crank

MM54 > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe 11/16/2018 at 22:07

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Yeah I’m going forged pistons either way, mostly hung up on if I can spend the extra to make it last longer when maybe it would be fine without it.

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe 11/16/2018 at 22:38

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Nice duration.