TBucket Engine Project (Dart SHP)

Loves302Chevy said:
Yep, that's the article. Based on that, if I ever build another SBC, I want to try a 377.
400 block (4.155" bore - 030 over) with a 350 crank (3.480" stroke), 11:1 static compression and running on pump gas.
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Still have to account for dynamic compression.
And then True Effective compression ratio with the engines predicted VE.

Something that needs working on Mike.
 
Oh man !!!!!:eek::( Sorry you had to pull the head ! Never a fun result.

Did you come to a conclusion why it contacted ?
 
Indycars said:
If the spring checks out to be bad, that would explain the why, but other than that nothing conclusive.
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When you get time tonight Rick gently wire brush the carbon off the #1 piston top hand or use a Small pocket knife.
I think carbon built up over witness mark.
You tuned the misfire out with the Carb.
My guess is it happened at your Hometown Street Outlaws Street Race Nationals.
 
I am wondering if the valves floated and that spring got loose to dislodge the valve lock, that causing that valve to be .060 lower in the chamber and even though your PVC was good that reduced it by that number and causing it to bump the piston enough to bend it!
 
I can't believe that Rick over-revved the engine enough to float those valves. I have spun similar setups to over 8000 rpm*.
Rick would know if that happened. Even when his axle was exiting from the rear end housing, he would have known it.

Rick, since your head gaskets are solid copper, after cleaning they can be re-annealed in your oven.

* Edit: with a solid flat tappet camshaft
 
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Loves302Chevy said:
I can't believe that Rick over-revved the engine enough to float those valves. I have spun similar setups to over 8000 rpm.
Rick would know if that happened. Even when his axle was exiting from the rear end housing, he would have known it.

Rick, since your head gaskets are solid copper, after cleaning they can be re-annealed in your oven.
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Its Very Easy to Float the Valves with a Street Performance Roller Cam.
Modern Cams have aggressive ramp profiles.
Roller cams can be unforgiving when over revved.
Its been over 2 years now I have to go way back and see whay Rick used exact.
The T was never meant for Racing when Rick & Grumpy started the project together.
Somewhere back 2008-2011.
 
I Swear By Titanium Valvespring Retainers.
Even for Street Use with any Performance Cam.

Something was up at Ricks Street Outlaws Nationals on that Day.
Should have done way Better.
Even Grumpy was Wondering what was up.
Power To Weight Ratio ison Ricks Side.

Except That 455 Race GTO Rick Ran against.
Nothing will catch it but A Race Big Block Chevy.
 
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I got back my pieces from Elite Metal Polisher in Blanchard Oklahoma. I took him my beer keg
again after I had it repaired because of the crack. I also took him my valve covers, new aluminum
water pump pulley and a SS bracket. He charged me $125 for everything. I thought that was a
very reasonable price. He has an 1940's Air Stream to do next week, he told me it would take
him a full week to complete.

The polish on Aluminum does not last very long, so I'm going to test Shark Hyde as a protectant.
It's a bit costly at $66 a quart. Also depends on how far it will go.

https://www.amazon.com/Sharkhide-Me...TF8&qid=1520118433&sr=8-1&keywords=shark+hyde


I cleaned the pulley real good with thinner and wiped the Shark Hyde on. Then wait a about
15 minutes for it to dry. It does trap any dust particles when it dries, I would blow it off after
wiping it with thinner.

The photo below is after coating the pulley and letting it dry.

FP05_SharkHydeOnWaterPumpPulley_00284.jpg

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When You read up on aluminum its actually a highly reactive metal Rick.
What protects aluminum is microscopic coating of aluminum oxide.
Aluminum oxide forms as soon as its nicked or cut.

I have tried clear coating aluminum parts with the best PPG Clearcoat used on showcars.
It last for 2 years.
 
That's why I'm done with chrome, polished aluminum, and shiny. Black paint for me. But I do use stainless hardware.
If you drive your vehicle, then it's a huge PITA to keep up with all the shiny. And I have no desire to display my work
at a car show where there are a bunch of people that don't even know what they are looking at, but think shiny is cool.
I don't want my car to be seen or heard. I wish for it to go completely un-noticed. It is for me to enjoy, no one else.
If I could, it would have no exhaust sound and a cloaking device. I want it to be mechanically perfect and run without any issues.
Make it too nice and someone will steal it.
 
Loves302Chevy said:
That's why I'm done with chrome, polished aluminum, and shiny. Black paint for me. But I do use stainless hardware.
If you drive your vehicle, then it's a huge PITA to keep up with all the shiny. And I have no desire to display my work
at a car show where there are a bunch of people that don't even know what they are looking at, but think shiny is cool.
I don't want my car to be seen or heard. I wish for it to go completely un-noticed. It is for me to enjoy, no one else.
If I could, it would have no exhaust sound and a cloaking device. I want it to be mechanically perfect and run without any issues.
Make it too nice and someone will steal it.
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The Boys are getting Bigger Mike.
Nicky asks sometimes what that White Car is in the Garage.
Just an Old Pontiac I tell him.
70-1/2 TA.
 
yeah, the newer generations clueless, not their fault as they never had the toys and similar experiences we had growing up,
one of my friends is a doctor who saved money and searched for decades, to find an original 427 A.C. cobra,
the day he found and purchased one (over hundred $K even back in the late 1980s)
he polished and waxed that car to look like a damn blood red and chrome mirror,...he was proud as a peacock,
......until some teenage guy pulls up next to him, rolls down the window in his car and says
"wow! nice looking car, is that one of those new two seat BMW's"
his wife said.....
I thought he was going to have a stroke
 
Grumpy said:
yeah, the newer generations clueless, not their fault as they never had the toys and similar experiences we had growing up,
one of my friends is a doctor who saved money and searched for decades, to find an original 427 A.C. cobra,
the day he found and purchased one (over hundred $K even back in the late 1980s)
he polished and waxed that car to look like a damn blood red and chrome mirror,...he was proud as a peacock,
......until some teenage guy pulls up next to him, rolls down the window in his car and says
"wow! nice looking car, is that one of those new two seat BMW's"
his wife said.....
I thought he was going to have a stroke
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Yes It would be very Upsetting.
THE A.C. Cobra 289 & 427 are some of the Koolest cars ever built.
To hell with imports & Euro.
Unless its a Ferrari or Lambo, like them Grumpy too.
 
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