v8440
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Ok, here's the beginning of the progress post I mentioned I'd do. As a refresher, here's the plan:
Take the well worn '70 /6 valiant in the photos below, and turn it into a low 12/high 11 second snoozer. This will be accomplished by combining a bunch of stuff I have lying around with some more stuff I'll have to buy. To keep things a bit simpler, instead of a big block the engine will be a 360 I had lying around. It's currently in the machine shop getting decked, bored, and honed in preparation for the keith black pistons it will get. It's also gonna get a set of cheap eagle rods, more for lightening up the bottom end than any concern with the strength of the stock rods. The light pistons and rods will allow me to run a neutral balancer and converter, ala 318.
A set of w2's I happen to have lying around are also going on the engine, as well as a set of 340 a/e body exhaust manifolds gathering dust on my back porch. It will have a 904 column shifted just like the stock transmission, and an 8 1/4 with a 3.55 suregrip out back. For an exhaust system, I'm thinking of a single 3" pipe ended about a foot in front of the rear bumper, with a 2 1/4" pipe actually sticking out under the back bumper. The 2 1/4" pipe would be about a foot long, just enough to kinda hang at the opening of the 3" so it would look and sound like the 2 1/4 was the actual pipe size.
The interior will remain as you see it, with the probable exception of some cheap small gauges for water temp and oil pressure. The nitrous bottle will be hidden in a to-be-determined location, and I'll probably use a topshot setup inside the air cleaner. The air cleaner will also probably hold the solenoids, and vacuum hoses will contain the wires and nitrous line. (this is a smog motor, remember? It's expected to have vacuum hoses.)
For an intake manifold, I'll use a dual plane intake MP makes for oval port w2 heads. I'll just grind the insignia off the front, and paint it to look like any other stock dual plane intake. The msd box will be hidden away inside the car somewhere, probably up the passenger side part of the firewall.
Take the well worn '70 /6 valiant in the photos below, and turn it into a low 12/high 11 second snoozer. This will be accomplished by combining a bunch of stuff I have lying around with some more stuff I'll have to buy. To keep things a bit simpler, instead of a big block the engine will be a 360 I had lying around. It's currently in the machine shop getting decked, bored, and honed in preparation for the keith black pistons it will get. It's also gonna get a set of cheap eagle rods, more for lightening up the bottom end than any concern with the strength of the stock rods. The light pistons and rods will allow me to run a neutral balancer and converter, ala 318.
A set of w2's I happen to have lying around are also going on the engine, as well as a set of 340 a/e body exhaust manifolds gathering dust on my back porch. It will have a 904 column shifted just like the stock transmission, and an 8 1/4 with a 3.55 suregrip out back. For an exhaust system, I'm thinking of a single 3" pipe ended about a foot in front of the rear bumper, with a 2 1/4" pipe actually sticking out under the back bumper. The 2 1/4" pipe would be about a foot long, just enough to kinda hang at the opening of the 3" so it would look and sound like the 2 1/4 was the actual pipe size.
The interior will remain as you see it, with the probable exception of some cheap small gauges for water temp and oil pressure. The nitrous bottle will be hidden in a to-be-determined location, and I'll probably use a topshot setup inside the air cleaner. The air cleaner will also probably hold the solenoids, and vacuum hoses will contain the wires and nitrous line. (this is a smog motor, remember? It's expected to have vacuum hoses.)
For an intake manifold, I'll use a dual plane intake MP makes for oval port w2 heads. I'll just grind the insignia off the front, and paint it to look like any other stock dual plane intake. The msd box will be hidden away inside the car somewhere, probably up the passenger side part of the firewall.
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