For the gearheads.....

[ReSSurrected]

Got outside today and worked on my 462 a little bit, installed my fuel pump and the accessory drive. Forgive the hodge-podge of bolt head colors, some of the accessories are in place merely to determine what hardware I needed.

Here's a shot from the side, I mocked the headers up again to make sure none of the front drive interfered with them....

Another.......

Got the rear sway bar moved up where it belongs....

Last but not least, my old creeper had served me well over the years, but the crappy, small-diameter wheels had pretty much given up. Time for an upgrade... Overengineered? Yup.

Forgive crappy bead plz....

If I don't find a job soon, I may even put it in the car.....

 

[johncarbaugh]

Sweet set up! Good idea moving the wheels on the creeper outboard. I have been pinched by my wheels way to many times to count.

 

[Tactical Dave]

I bet you had fun lifting and carrying those heads around! And I thought aluminum big block heads were heavy haha.

 

[96firephoenix]

so what is this going into? looks like you have a pretty righteous setup going there.

 

[Tactical Dave]

so what is this going into? looks like you have a pretty righteous setup going there.

Looks like a fox stang but the tail lights are not wide enough and the object to the right of the fuel tank is throwing me off. Second but better guess would be a Monte Carlo?

 

[johncarbaugh]

Looks like a fox stang but the tail lights are not wide enough and the object to the right of the fuel tank is throwing me off. Second but better guess would be a Monte Carlo?

Object to right of fuel tank looks like spare tire well. If you look in pic 1 looks like a Monte SS in the background.

 

[ReSSurrected]

Second but better guess would be a Monte Carlo?

ding ding ding ding...winner...

 

[Tactical Dave]

Nice looking car. I figured it was the spare tire well but I have seen stranger things haha. I missed the Monte in the first pic....... way to tired right now!

 

[ReSSurrected]

Thanks!

Unfortunately, it doesn't look quite that nice anymore, that pic is about 6 years old.

I got to thinking, when I get the 462 in it, I'm gonna grab some "231" emblems off an old Buick in the junkyard and put one on each fender. When someone's like "Dude, you said it's got a 231 in it, not a big block!" I'll say "no, the emblems are correct... left emblem refers to the left bank, and the right refers to the right bank!!!"

 

[Tactical Dave]

I got to thinking, when I get the 462 in it, I'm gonna grab some "231" emblems off an old Buick in the junkyard and put one on each fender. When someone's like "Dude, you said it's got a 231 in it, not a big block!" I'll say "no, the emblems are correct... left emblem refers to the left bank, and the right refers to the right bank!!!"

LOL!

 

[Ashkelon]

As a fellow tinkerer in all things mechanical I truly appreciate your getting so excited as to posting pics of your renovated and freshly welded creeper wheel.

Strange how tinkerers can fritter an hour on something and it will mean the world to them and if someone stops by we say "oh yeah, that's a 462 roller motor over in the corner but look at what I did with this creeper!"

Its a sickness but it allows us to buy more tools!

 

[jclark]

How much did that 9" rear end set you back?
I"m thinking about finding one for the 69 Camaro S Clark and I are working on.

 

[ReSSurrected]

I'm guessing/working from memory, but I think I've got around $1600 in that 9 inch.

It started out as a Moser housing and axle package that a guy from Columbus bought and never used. He had put a junkyard 3.00 geared center in it so that he could move the car in and out of his shop. He never did put brakes on it. Dude got strapped for cash, and wanted $500 for it. I ended up buying the rear, a spare 200 4R trans, and a PST poly bushing kit for $600 total. I put brakes on it, a better case, all new bearings, a set of Richmond 3.70's, and a Detroit Locker. There's also a 1.5" ATR rear sway bar, boxed lower control arms, and adjustable upper arms in there. That puts it up around $2K total.

While looking for the pics of the rear end, I found these, some "baby pictures" of my engine:

And as long as I'm posting up the entire drivetrain, here's the trans:

 

[Leadeye]

Nice motor and good idea on the emblems. How big is the demon carb?

 

[ReSSurrected]

Nice motor and good idea on the emblems. How big is the demon carb?

Thanks, been working on it for some time now. The carb is a 850 Race Demon, mechanical secondaries & annular discharge boosters.

 

[Suprtek]

For the gearheads

Dude! Are you even allowed to post porn like that on an open forum?

 

[downzero]

Thanks, been working on it for some time now. The carb is a 850 Race Demon, mechanical secondaries & annular discharge boosters.

Make EFI your next project. I know it seems insane...but trust me...you'll never go back.

 

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Make EFI your next project. I know it seems insane...but trust me...you'll never go back.

Considered it many times, and Edelbrock's ProFlo XT setup is tempting.... until I get to the price tag. ever time I consider some sort of FI setup, I come back to the same thing: I can but a blower on it for less.

 

[biginchevy]

Oval or rectangle ports? What cam? Im a big block nut... love em. Starting to move on to LS motors though... Love the light weight and efficiency. Sweet project though. G bodies should have had big blocks from the factory!

 

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It's got a set of factory "780" ovals, second best flowing factory oval port casting. They've been ported by a pro, and they've got Manley back-cut valves in them.

As for the cam, the following is directly from Lunati's website:

Hydraulic. Hot Street cam, likes 2800 converter, Hi-Rise type dual plane intake with 850cfm carb, headers, 10:1 compression and 3.73 gears. Likes up to 200HP nitrous.

• Advertised Duration (Int/Exh): 276/284
• Duration @ .050 (Int/Exh): 233/241
• Gross Valve Lift (Int/Exh): .554/.572
• LSA/ICL: 110/106
• Valve Lash (Int/Exh): Hyd/Hyd
• RPM Range: 2200-6400
• Includes: Cam Kit

There's a reason I only went .030 over, used Cometic head gaskets, and studded the heads....BWAHAHAHAHAH......

The LS's def. have a LOT to offer... if I were going to do another, I'd probably go with a 6.0 truck block (iron) and a T76ish turbo.