THE ENGINE
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I bought a used 350
shortblock, it's a 4 bolt main (010 casting) and had it hot tanked and bored
.040" over by Mattingly Automotive in Greenfield, Indiana. I am using a stock
350 cast crank and had the rod and main journals turned .010" under at Quinlan's
Automotive in Indianapolis, IN. Quinlan's also balanced the rotating assembly.
All engine parts were selected by me and all assembly was done by me in my garage.
I bought 5.7" Stage 2 steel rods (Summit p/n SME-3-48-05-200) and Keith Black
13:1, .388 dome, hypereutectic pistons (Summit p/n UEM-KB213-040) and had the
whole rotating assembly balanced. I assembled it with Clevite 77 bearings (mains-Summit
p/n CLE-MS909P10, rods-Summit p/n CLE-CB663P10). I'm using a set of cast iron
heads with 2.02" intake, 1.60" exhaust, 64 cc chambers that were built at Indy
Cylinder Head in Indianapolis, IN. I am using the Edelbrock Victor Jr. Tall
(Summit p/n EDL-2999). A Holley 750 cfm Double Pumper with mech. secondaries
(Summit p/n HLY-0-4779) on top of a TD Performance 1" spacer (Summit p/n TRD-2103).
I'm also using a 7 1/4" Fluidamper (Summit p/n FLU-712430). I chose a Comp Cams
(Summit p/n CCA-12-609-5) cam, (305 dur .532" Int and .555 Exh) and a set of
Comp Cams solid lifters (Summit p/n CCA-813-16). As for the rockers and pushrods,
I'm using Summit 1.5 ratio Roller Rockers (Summit p/n SUM-G6910) and Summit
ChromeMoly pushrods (Summit p/n SUM-G6430). A Moroso 8 quart oil pan (Summit
p/n MOR-20110) with a Melling hi-volume oil pump (Summit p/n SES-3-60-08-440),
A Moroso electric water pump (Summit p/n MOR-63539) and behind it is a Mr. Gasket
chrome steel timing cover. A B&M 153-tooth flexplate (Summit p/n BMM-20237)
and a B&M Holeshot 3000 (Summit p/n BMM-20413). I then filled it with Castrol
GTX SAE 40 heavy duty oil (from Pep Boys). It gets cranked over with a McLeod
Mini High Torque starter (Summit p/n MCL-810152). The motor is held in the car
with Moroso solid motor mounts (Automotion p/n MOR-62515) attached to Moroso
Camaro SB frame brackets (Automotion p/n MOR-62630). The blue Moroso valve covers
were bought from Automotion in Indy.
Here is the original motor about to come out!
And here is the new motor about to go in!!
