What bore and stroke is it?
Looks like I am finally getting my Christmas present!
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The Mopar Performance 472 crate engine is 4.250 bore x 4.150 stroke. this one is .030 over that on the bore. He also had to line bore it to true it up. Lots of core shift in these blocks. Mopar Performance just slapped them together. I never ran it,after seeing some of the horror stories with these engines. I sent it to the machine shop to be completely gone through. I added the Edelbrock 705 horsepower top end kit. Even the new Edelbrock heads were not ready to bolt on as advertised. The guides were too tight,and he did a three angle valve job on them. I went from a flat tappet camshaft to a roller cam. I also added a stroker windage tray to prevent top end oil starvation issues at high RPMs.
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Thanks. I plan to do similar. What brand is the crank, mopar performance? I've been looking at a molnar crank for mine, and H beam rods.
It is the crank that came with the crate engine. Steel forged 8 bolt flange. The crate engines came with H beam rods.
You've owned it since 1981, that's a ton of love.
I decided to hold onto the car as many others have come and gone. It hasn't been on the road since 2002. The first picture is from when I first restored the car in 1989. The second picture is with my former A12 Super Bee and the Little Red Express truck. I sold the A12 car in 1995,and just sold the truck this year. The third picture shows me with my daughter, she was three years old then.she is 36 now! That's my A12 Superbee next to it.
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Insurance companies are making me feel like that.
When you think about it, pretty much all engines that will be making serious HP should be treated to at least being checked. Lots of machine shops will automatically throw the block up on the machine and 'true' them up without checking to see if they even need to be machined. I don't like paying for stuff that ain't needed so I learned how to check that sort of stuff myself.
I bought my Belvedere in 88 and started it on a diet within the following year and had fun with it for 10 years before tearing it apart for a make over. My first thought was to build a streetable drag car that still had some handling manners. Well, my dad past away in 98 and I halted work on the car for a pretty good while. When I finally got back to it, another relative decided to leave earth. That happened 8 more times for the next 3 years. Seems like every time I went back to work on the car, another one would pass. The X wasn't any help either in demanding that we needed to do this or that just about every time I headed out to the shop....and now I'm old.
When you pay five figures for a fully assembled Mopar Performance crate Hemi,you would assume this was done,it was not!
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