Travis Munday
Well-Known Member
It's been a long road, but finally feel like some major progress has been made; tonite, the motor actually ran.
The past two weeks or so been fighting the start a few hours a day. First it was the timing, then the battery died, then the carb needed a rebuild (used, and turns out there wasn't a single gasket on it...), dead battery, no oil pressure, dead battery, timing, no oil pressure-- you get the idea. But tonite, almost everything was sorted out and the motor started and ran, with no throttle input and without massaging the timing via the distributor.
I'm happy as can be about the whole thing, as this was my first solo complete engine build. It's a 302 bored 60 over with balanced pistons, rods and crank, 351W heads (bigger valves and combustion chamber), aggressive cam (521/544 lift and 292°/302° duration, gross), 750 cfm Holley, double wound Edelbrock valve springs, Holman-Moody dual-plane aluminum intake, full length headers-- I'm sure I'm missing something. Cooling is handled by a big-block radiator (barley fits) with a large electric fan pushing lots of air. There is no a/c or power steering to rob HP either.
I'll get a video of it tomorrow starting up and revving, assuming I can find a host for it, I'll link to it. The primary needle <i>still</i> leaks, it'll have to replaced entirely. Need to polish up valve covers, put on the trick air cleaner, clean up those spark plug wires, add a vacuum line for the brakes, hook up the throttle linkage....and call it good. After I drain the oil and coolant and replace it with the good stuff. Hook up the final gas line with inline filter, oh, and see if I can't fix the possible header leak.
I gotta thank Todd Z and Mark H for putting up with constant questions, the advice and guidance was much appreciated.
A few snaps, excuse the messy wiring, the unclean engine bay and lack of order...
<img src="http://www.zjstech.net/~library/368/it%20lives2%20004%20(Medium).jpg">
<img src="http://www.zjstech.net/~library/368/it%20lives2%20005%20(Medium).jpg">
The past two weeks or so been fighting the start a few hours a day. First it was the timing, then the battery died, then the carb needed a rebuild (used, and turns out there wasn't a single gasket on it...), dead battery, no oil pressure, dead battery, timing, no oil pressure-- you get the idea. But tonite, almost everything was sorted out and the motor started and ran, with no throttle input and without massaging the timing via the distributor.
I'm happy as can be about the whole thing, as this was my first solo complete engine build. It's a 302 bored 60 over with balanced pistons, rods and crank, 351W heads (bigger valves and combustion chamber), aggressive cam (521/544 lift and 292°/302° duration, gross), 750 cfm Holley, double wound Edelbrock valve springs, Holman-Moody dual-plane aluminum intake, full length headers-- I'm sure I'm missing something. Cooling is handled by a big-block radiator (barley fits) with a large electric fan pushing lots of air. There is no a/c or power steering to rob HP either.
I'll get a video of it tomorrow starting up and revving, assuming I can find a host for it, I'll link to it. The primary needle <i>still</i> leaks, it'll have to replaced entirely. Need to polish up valve covers, put on the trick air cleaner, clean up those spark plug wires, add a vacuum line for the brakes, hook up the throttle linkage....and call it good. After I drain the oil and coolant and replace it with the good stuff. Hook up the final gas line with inline filter, oh, and see if I can't fix the possible header leak.
I gotta thank Todd Z and Mark H for putting up with constant questions, the advice and guidance was much appreciated.
A few snaps, excuse the messy wiring, the unclean engine bay and lack of order...
<img src="http://www.zjstech.net/~library/368/it%20lives2%20004%20(Medium).jpg">
<img src="http://www.zjstech.net/~library/368/it%20lives2%20005%20(Medium).jpg">
Last edited by a moderator:
