Mods
357 Cleveland
B&M 174 blower
Cam research custom roller cam
TFS 72cc 225cfm heads
TermX 4150 stealth
Automatic to top loader w/hydraulic clutch
B&M 174 blower
Cam research custom roller cam
TFS 72cc 225cfm heads
TermX 4150 stealth
Automatic to top loader w/hydraulic clutch
Build story
Seven days after I bought the car it taught me to be prepared to walk. The distributor drive pin sheered. It took a couple weeks to figure it out since the distributor still turned.
Guessing the above helped spin the bearings about 8 months later.
Teenager that read hot rod and car craft (anything engine related) figured we could rebuild it. With my boss at work, my friends and most importantly my Dad we got the parts together and rebuilt the engine and installed it.
Unfortunately it didn’t have good oil pressure even though all the bearings were checked and rechecked.
Dad said run it until it no longer does.
10k miles later it ate itself. I found out the lifter gap was too big. That was where the problem was all along.
Car got pushed to the side.
Eventually I borrowed money to have the everything fixed. Car went to body shop and was stripped so it could get some damage repair, paint and a cage installed. Was told 6 weeks. 6 months I was collecting my basket case by flashlight as the shop and my money were gone.
I did have a fancy blower and a ton of speed parts as the engine was being built while the body shop was working on the car.
In the end all the parts went into storage and life happened.
About 2001 I had the shell pulled to another shop and the finished building the engine and the repaired stuff the first body shop failed at.
All was going well until the shop called and said pick up your car NOW!
Second shop out of business.
At first they did good work, but quality suffered at the end and every time I rolled under it I just got pissed.
Enter the third go around. 18 months befits 50’th birthday Wife say’s either fix it or dump the albatross.
So we started. I did all the work except the transmission rebuild and installing the front windshield.
Lockdown and then supply chain drug it out to where its first start was mid Jan 2023.
Licensed and inspected two months later.
It is a project. It may never be done, but I hope the wife and I can take it places and see the rest of the United States.
Guessing the above helped spin the bearings about 8 months later.
Teenager that read hot rod and car craft (anything engine related) figured we could rebuild it. With my boss at work, my friends and most importantly my Dad we got the parts together and rebuilt the engine and installed it.
Unfortunately it didn’t have good oil pressure even though all the bearings were checked and rechecked.
Dad said run it until it no longer does.
10k miles later it ate itself. I found out the lifter gap was too big. That was where the problem was all along.
Car got pushed to the side.
Eventually I borrowed money to have the everything fixed. Car went to body shop and was stripped so it could get some damage repair, paint and a cage installed. Was told 6 weeks. 6 months I was collecting my basket case by flashlight as the shop and my money were gone.
I did have a fancy blower and a ton of speed parts as the engine was being built while the body shop was working on the car.
In the end all the parts went into storage and life happened.
About 2001 I had the shell pulled to another shop and the finished building the engine and the repaired stuff the first body shop failed at.
All was going well until the shop called and said pick up your car NOW!
Second shop out of business.
At first they did good work, but quality suffered at the end and every time I rolled under it I just got pissed.
Enter the third go around. 18 months befits 50’th birthday Wife say’s either fix it or dump the albatross.
So we started. I did all the work except the transmission rebuild and installing the front windshield.
Lockdown and then supply chain drug it out to where its first start was mid Jan 2023.
Licensed and inspected two months later.
It is a project. It may never be done, but I hope the wife and I can take it places and see the rest of the United States.