sad day in my 5.0s life
09-24-2005, 10:57 PM
#12
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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RE: sad day in my 5.0s life
im betting it is. motor has seen 270* 2 yrs ago and that was basically last time it was driven. and this motor was only going ot be a get me thru motor to i had time and money to build one. looks like im building soon now. roughly how much was yours
09-24-2005, 10:59 PM
#13
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RE: sad day in my 5.0s life
I'm going thru the same thing at the moment Quik.
I spent all this money on the top half of this motor,supercharger.all the electronics,and the dyno tune.
On the dyno it started to spit oil out of the valve covers under boost.
Turns out that i have bad rings.Did a leak down-or tried to. At 30psi from a compressor it was coming out of the other head.lol.
I started thinking to myself,#@$#@#@#@. just like you probably did.
Any ways, i figured the cheapest way to get out of this mess was to go .030" over with good pistons and a 306 cube.
The stroker would be nice but it involves getting so much more money to get it back together, money i did'nt want to spend.
With the 50 ounce setup that i have i dont need to buy anything. I only need to get the machining done and put it back together.
Good luck as you think this thru.
Rye
I spent all this money on the top half of this motor,supercharger.all the electronics,and the dyno tune.
On the dyno it started to spit oil out of the valve covers under boost.
Turns out that i have bad rings.Did a leak down-or tried to. At 30psi from a compressor it was coming out of the other head.lol.
I started thinking to myself,#@$#@#@#@. just like you probably did.
Any ways, i figured the cheapest way to get out of this mess was to go .030" over with good pistons and a 306 cube.
The stroker would be nice but it involves getting so much more money to get it back together, money i did'nt want to spend.
With the 50 ounce setup that i have i dont need to buy anything. I only need to get the machining done and put it back together.
Good luck as you think this thru.
Rye
09-25-2005, 12:08 AM
#18
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RE: sad day in my 5.0s life
this was going ot be my nitrous scatter motor. i could very easy run a 11 with this setup and my car. my next motor i want 11s on motor which shouldnt be an issue and 10s on spray. maybe ill put together a motor i can compeat with in some 5.0 classes.
09-25-2005, 12:12 AM
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RE: sad day in my 5.0s life
for everyone that is interested in the valve covers. they have slight grinding on them to help clear with the GT40 intake. basically just some of hte high rise part is notched but its the part that is under the intake that you will never see. i did however polisht them up some. they were wet sanded with 1200 and then rubbed to shine with mothers. so whoever is the lucky person that recieves them ill will clean them up some and make them shiney again