HYRDGOON
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Cool Car, Cool Story, Cool Grandpa! Love it!
I don't mean to bore you but here are more pic's of various aspects of the car. My focus has been primarily on the engine as you can probably tell. Some pic's show the oiling mods where the mains are drilled, a cover is placed over the oval holes in the valley and extra holes are drilled in the filter plate. Also the wood spacers I made which dropped the carb temp from 180deg to 110deg!! One of the best mods ever! The ported heads are pictured also and the coated pistons. I have just had a blast wrenching on this car.
Rich
==========================================================================================================Hey Rich, I don't mean to be dumb here, but can you explain the flat metal piece bolted in the valley (in the last pic). Not knowing anything about racing, I would think that it would cause a loss of lubrication to the cam lobes. I don't plan on building a race engine, but I am curious just the same.
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The piece of flat alum plate is to prevent the hot oil from spraying the bottom of the intake manifold to help keep it cooler. This really doesn't hinder oiling at all and perhaps it could actually add oil to the cam as it will splash right back at the cam instead of being dispersed in the valley area.
I didn't come up with the idea. My machinist, Randy Beyer, does it on all his race stuff. He runs a little 310ci Mopar up to 10grand with this set-up too and doesn't tear down the engine all season. I was running about 7500rpm with my 318 poly.
==========================================================================================================I know Rich and his 64 Dodge. If Rich couldn't tinker with Le Roar, you just as well put him away!!.................................MO
BTW Rich do you know what the outcome was to MAM dragstrip auction?
Hey Rich,
Good to see you on this forum. I'm also a member of the poly318 yahoo group. Those headers look good. I've got a 66 Belvedere with power steering and been trying to figure out how to fit headers under the hood. The car has power steering, it looks like yours does too. Are those TTI, or custom headers?
Joel