My Chevelle; its on-going ass'ness.

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Its going back together.. hopefully in a week or so it will be alive.

[Moloko]

You stole my thread name and... and..... mine's cooler.

Are you building the same engine again, or building it differently? I remember you saying you wanted to run on pump gas.

Also, is that ford blue you painted it? Because i've been catching slack for wanting to paint my engine blue.... from everyone.

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Same engine, better assembly, lol. I been getting some slack about it being that color. Its getting repainted its gonna be blue, but a lighter blue. I was going to go pumpgas but the trade for my parts for pumpgas parts was a big loss $$$ wise for me so I decided against it last minute.

[Kriz]

pst... Dave.... his Z06 is silver..... "quicksilver".

It coming along nice Charles.... and Moloko has NOTHING on you.

[k.]

haha..

~k.

[k20mike]

Glad to see that thing going back together. I had a little mishap with my big block on the dyno myself, a couple months ago.

Mike

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Glad to see that thing going back together. I had a little mishap with my big block on the dyno myself, a couple months ago.

Mike


What happened to yours? I hope you didnt have the same crank as me. There seemed to be a problem from the factory with some radiuses. Which I didn't find out till after the fact.

[Moloko]

If you want a little darker paint, I have some ford blue (yours is ford corporate blue) por15 engine paint I tried last night. The paint looks great, but I dont like the shade (i want lighter). You can have it for $5 if you want it, I just dont want to see it wasted.

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If you want a little darker paint, I have some ford blue (yours is ford corporate blue) por15 engine paint I tried last night. The paint looks great, but I dont like the shade (i want lighter). You can have it for $5 if you want it, I just dont want to see it wasted.


Actually mine is just regular car paint that a guy I used to know mixed up for me at work one day. I told him I wanted it similar to a wd40 can and thats what came out. Thanks for the offer but I think we're going chrysler blue.

[k20mike]

What happened to yours? I hope you didnt have the same crank as me. There seemed to be a problem from the factory with some radiuses. Which I didn't find out till after the fact.


Well I was a little careless and a little lazy in my assembly. I had custom pistons ordered for my motor and didn't bother to check for valve clearance, welp you guessed it :eek3: . Broke it in on the dyno fine and then decided to take a few cheap feels with a little more power thats whan all hell broke loose. Water and oil started spitting out of every gasket and seal. Shut it down and pulled the heads. Exhaust valves were just kissing the pistons. Broke the valve guide on number 1 and shot it right out the header, good thing. No damage to cylinders or pistons. I had the head valve guide hole bored and sleeved and it's done, have to pick it up tommorow. Machinist says it will be as good as new, we'll see. Have to re-assemble motor measure p to v and have the pistons cut. I guess I was actually kind of lucky, my machinist couldn't believe how well I took it, seeing my motor die on the dyno.
It still made some decent numbers with the valves hitting and no timing or fuel.
650 horse at about 6800 rpm. Once I get it back together I hope it makes a little more :D
Mike

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Well I was a little careless and a little lazy in my assembly. I had custom pistons ordered for my motor and didn't bother to check for valve clearance, welp you guessed it :eek3: . Broke it in on the dyno fine and then decided to take a few cheap feels with a little more power thats whan all hell broke loose. Water and oil started spitting out of every gasket and seal. Shut it down and pulled the heads. Exhaust valves were just kissing the pistons. Broke the valve guide on number 1 and shot it right out the header, good thing. No damage to cylinders or pistons. I had the head valve guide hole bored and sleeved and it's done, have to pick it up tommorow. Machinist says it will be as good as new, we'll see. Have to re-assemble motor measure p to v and have the pistons cut. I guess I was actually kind of lucky, my machinist couldn't believe how well I took it, seeing my motor die on the dyno.
It still made some decent numbers with the valves hitting and no timing or fuel.
650 horse at about 6800 rpm. Once I get it back together I hope it makes a little more :D
Mike

Thats what mine made too.. 650 with 14.2 a/f ratio and a motor with 0 clearence. should be better this time.

[k20mike]

Thats what mine made too.. 650 with 14.2 a/f ratio and a motor with 0 clearence. should be better this time.


What kind of crank did you buy this time, or were you able to repair yours? I'm hoping mine will be back together within the next month. I plan on buying a Da Vinci carb. Have you heard anything good or bad about those carbs?

Mike

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What kind of crank did you buy this time, or were you able to repair yours? I'm hoping mine will be back together within the next month. I plan on buying a Da Vinci carb. Have you heard anything good or bad about those carbs?

Mike


It was a 4340 Eagle Crank. I was able to fix mine, it cost alot but is better then new it seems. Shortblock is together, I'll post up new pics tomorrow. Ive heard some good things about the da vinci's but have no personal experience with them.

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Progress......

http://www.singledigitperformance.com/020804pistonsrods.jpg

http://www.singledigitperformance.com/020804ringcomp.jpg

http://www.singledigitperformance.com/020804bottom.jpg

http://www.singledigitperformance.com/020804top.jpg

[kevmeister]

lol someone is wearin velcrow shoes in the 2nd pic up top..

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lol someone is wearin velcrow shoes in the 2nd pic up top..


lol, wasnt me.

[k20mike]

Looking good, motivating me to get my ass in gear. Silly question, How do you post pics in thread?

Mike

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Looking good, motivating me to get my ass in gear. Silly question, How do you post pics in thread?

Mike


You can either put a [.img]http://www.testsite.com/picture.jpg[./img] (those tags around the url to the picture without the period)... or you can just click that picture icon under the font size and it brings up a textbox where you can just type in the url and it puts the tags on it for you.

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Man... here are some updated pix.. the heads are on it, the valve train isnt done yet, so the intake is just sitting on there. gotta do the rev kit, pushrods, rockers on monday. I am VERY dissapointed at the fruity gay ass color it came out, but dont feel like paitning it again.....

http://www.singledigitperformance.com/021104_studs.JPG

http://www.singledigitperformance.com/021104_headson1.JPG

http://www.singledigitperformance.com/021104_headson2.JPG

[Carcrazy]

lookin good....yeah your right about the color but whatever.....lol velcrow shoes again

[k.]

i like the color. matches a pair of adidas i have. :)

~k.

[Kriz]

I sometimes wonder about people who look for shoes in pictures of beautiful engines.... something just aint right.

[Carcrazy]

I sometimes wonder about people who look for shoes in pictures of beautiful engines.... something just aint right.

LOL

What are you doing with the engine? Race? or just nice engine to have in a nice car?

[LETZ RUN]

LOL

What are you doing with the engine? Race? or just nice engine to have in a nice car?


Its a race car.

[Carcrazy]

cool....what are you aiming for?hp/torque wise and 1/4?


edit-Is the shop in the pictures your? or a motor shop?

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cool....what are you aiming for?hp/torque wise and 1/4?


edit-Is the shop in the pictures your? or a motor shop?


hp wise.. 1100hp on the bottle / 850tq 8.90s would be nice.. these are all goals though and probably never gonna happen but you should aim high i guess.

[Carcrazy]

Sounds good!Hope you get there.....are all those motors yours?


Any idea when they whole car will be done?

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Sounds good!Hope you get there.....are all those motors yours?


Any idea when they whole car will be done?


No they are not. It is not a shop, its a buddys garage. They are random motors he built for people waiting to be picked up or paid for. Im hoping in the next week or 2 the car should be done.

[XbusinessX]

Great looking motor. I can't wait to see what she can do when she's all back together.

Oh, the block isn't that fruity haha

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New pics...... Next sunny weekend it will be in the car breathing.....


http://www.singledigitperformance.com/021604_top.jpg

http://www.singledigitperformance.com/021604_girdles.jpg

[Carcrazy]

Nice....how much did the whole thing cost you?

[LETZ RUN]

Engine or car?

[Carcrazy]

engine

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engine


700 for crank, 400 to fix it, lol. 550 for rods, 600 for pistons, 3500 for heads and intake, 600 for carb, 100 for rings, 150 for bearings, 500 for girdles and rockers, 1400 for machine work and block, 100 for billet mains, 100 for l-19 rod bolts, 100 for timing chain, 300 for balancer, 400 for distributor/cranktrigger, 50 timing cover, 300 oilpan and pump. Thats about it im guessing.. ballpark anyways ----9850 so round up to 10k. Then add 1000 for headers, 1000 for trans, 700 for converter, 1000 for fuelsystem, 500 for vaccum system, 100 for alternator, etc.. it gets waaaay up there. depending on how indepth you wanna get... yeeesh.. thats depressing :sad2: :sad2:

[Carcrazy]

wow.....well at least it was a fun project...and it will beeven funner to drve :3gears:

[472 mach 1]

So someone besides me is spending way too much money on an engine?

[Carcrazy]

You can never spend too much money on an engine......

[472 mach 1]

Unless it costs more than many cars.

[Carcrazy]

But it will go faster then many cars :P

[Carcrazy]

Any sunny weekends yet? or are you having crappy weather?

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Any sunny weekends yet? or are you having crappy weather?


Crappy weather. Hopefully this weekend. Here is an updated pic, its done ready to go in. Crank trigger, mandrel and pullies are on just not in this pic.

[Carcrazy]

Oh...yeah that sucks...i bet your anxious(spelling?) to put it in :)

Are you planning on making any burnout/race video?

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Oh...yeah that sucks...i bet your anxious(spelling?) to put it in :)

Are you planning on making any burnout/race video?


of course, 2 both.

[Carcrazy]

coolness...post them up when you get them.....as im sure you were planning



well a few things have changed since the last update. i decided to give the site a new look and make it a little easier to update so maybe ill be more inclined to update it.

new news about the car is pretty bad. since the videos of the car driving around the block it has went to the dyno in late feb. it was not a good trip, problem after problem, ending with the flywheel losing some teeth and buying a new starter. after changing the flywheel and starter the car didnt seem right, had a noise, then lost oil pressure, so i was taken apart. it was alot worse then i was hoping to see. when i pulled the pan off, 2 rods were so bad that there was no bearing left in them at all, they could flop back and forth on the crank. those 2 rods were noticably a different color from the heat. the pistons on those 2 rods hit the crank. you can see on some of the other rod bearings, that those werent too far off from going completely away also. it also had a couple spun main bearings. so it looks like the damage is crank, 3 rods, set of pistons, bearings. the sides of the pistons are pretty mauled up from the stuff running through the motor. the block looks okay, as does the cam, heads, and valve train parts.

click on the picture of the motor being pulled to view the damage pictures


^Is that from the old set-up^

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coolness...post them up when you get them.....as im sure you were planning






^Is that from the old set-up^


Its the same setup, just replaced 2 rods, 2 pistons, bearings and fixed the crank.

[Carcrazy]

oh...and painted the block?

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oh...and painted the block?


Yes.

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well....
http://www.singledigitperformance.com/done.jpg

[Carcrazy]

:eek6:

[k.]

yay!

~k.

[Kriz]

FUCK YEAH!!!! :holla:

[Ike]

Congrats on how its coming along thus far Charles, and the block sort of grows on you :holla:

[LETZ RUN]

wow.. sorry for the size of that pic.. ill fix it when i get home.. I'll also post a video of it starting.. hopefully il have a burnout video or something in the next couple days.. need to tune it alot though.. the carb has issues.

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Video.. its lame I know.. but I dont have any good footage yet, lol.

http://www.singledigitperformance.com/alive.wmv

[FanaticalKilla]

The video was lame, but all and all that car is MEAN! The motor sounds nice. :eek6:

[Moloko]

I like the license plate frame.

[Mickee]

video video video....

EDIT: sorry i was readign the first page.. lol didnt notice the 2nd page...
:eek5: :eek5:

[Carcrazy]

so anything new happen with the car?

[Kriz]

Are you gonna make an appearance Sunday?

[LETZ RUN]

Are you gonna make an appearance Sunday?


No, nothing really new wiht the car. Had some tire issues, that are hopefully resolved. Now I just gotta get the carb workin like its supposed to.


Sunday? I thought it was saturday? Im gonna make the trip in my regular car one time before I go to see exactly how far it is. If I can get the carb running reliiably, then I will make it. If not, since you're in the area if you would like to come give the carb a looksy it would be appreciated :D :D

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Well my dumbass re-read the post, it is sunday. Sounds good to me, gives me saturday to get the junk running right and cleaned up from all the cat hair and bird shit.

[Carcrazy]

cat hair and bird shit? on the car?

And its probly not but ill ask anyway...is the car street legal?

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cat hair and bird shit? on the car?

And its probly not but ill ask anyway...is the car street legal?



well its registered and insured......

it was parked outside for a month or 2 while it was at a friends house.. thats where the birdshit and cathair came from.. he has 1902839082109 cats and some decided to sleep in the car :rant:

[Carcrazy]

Oh lol cat hair in the car? haha....does it have full interior??

[1badchevelle]

i also have a 67 chevelle w/ a 355 that runs mid 10s, i would like for you to join my video group addy is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drag_racing_video