I demand engine porn!

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Ever decide what you're going to do with that F-series?

Hey, its porn to me.
FE big block and a demure pussy.

>mechanically-driven camshafts
MMMMM... YES...

youtube.com/watch?v=H47ZP81OXKQ

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i deliver?

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Have a flathead V12

Pretty, but im not a fan of painting an assembled engine.
Is that a C or an M?
Been drinking and I can't focus on the middle of the 3 that I see...
(Took me 6 minutes to type that, thank you autocorrect...)

what engine is that?
thats the m90 from a supercharged 3800 right?

wow thats a lot of cancer you got there

I commend you on the build, although "why?!" creeps into my mind.
But then I dropped a $14k engine into a rusted out $200 shell while my buddy bought a $12,000 Saleen....

I always wondered what powered those pride parade floats.

>no master cylinders
>no brake booster
>no brake lines
>no radiator hoses
>no fuel lines
>no fuel pump
>no pressure regulator
>no battery
>no alternator, spark plugs, or wires
sick tuck bro!

That isn't a 351, its a 460. It's in this beast. all I need is an ignition switch with key and I need to set up the passing gear linkage. It should be ready to run then

I would claim I'm that drunk, but its just been that long since I've seen a 460, forgot they even existed....
How does the interior look?

Seat is a little ripped up on the drivers side, i had taken it out to be redone but said fuck it and saved the money for other shit. Truck has 90k original miles

What is like to do would be a built 351w, but odds are I'm going to pull a 302 out of an explorer and cam it and put a carb on and msd ignition. Don't know if I should put some higher comp pistons in but I'd rather not open up the block if needed.

It ran a 22.9 at 59mph a few weeks ago at bandimere speedway though with the base drivetrain.

Oh god, red and cream.
Wtf were our parents thinking.
That like what, a '76?

>90k
Sure dude.
I have a 1989 5.0 foxbody with zero mods, zero accidents, original paint, original interior- all mint and 60k original.

That's an 1/8 mile track I'm hoping

Lol no. That's 23 seconds, 0 to 60, in a quarter of a mile.

Stock, tired 300 i6, c6 auto and a Dana 60 with 4.11s. My estimate was about right, it's probably making like 60hp at the wheels.

I was being sarcastic, but I really do have that mustang.
Point I was trying to make is that it happens, but its rare. That fender rust says your odometer has rolled over.

Dude tired isn't the word to use here.
I am one of the few people that has murdered a 300, and it took effort (stupidity?).
Is my mustang BTW.
Ive done the 6-8 swap in that chassis if you want to move up.
I've also shown you pics of my custom radius arms. My throwaway is LVGA30ty@gmail if you want some good info on what to do next.

Thanks man I'll send it. I need someone who knows some shit about Windsors. Odds are I'll be going with either an rpm performer intake or the Holley competitor, 650cfm in the carb and 9.5 comp pistons if I do crack the block. Also was looking at this cam earlier and it looked tasty.

m.summitracing.com/parts/cca-35-320-8

650 is too much honestly.
350 ci @4500rpm is like 405 cfm (from memory herw, aided by a 12 pack of Coors)
By basically you're a truck and need grunt down low, you'll get better torque for a smaller carb.
My 390 was better with a 450 vacuum secondary than the 650 double pumper- by a long shot.

That cam has a lot of lift.
I've ran that cam.
Not going to talk about that here though because I get payed good money for cams. I'll give anything else away for free.

You think it's worth it to upgrade from 9.1 compression pistons with stock gt40(p) heads? And the only other cam I'm thinking of would be a lunati voodoo hydraulic roller.

Not my build but it was famous in the GM FWD scene.
Car was a 1996 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Z34.
engine is a 1997 LQ1, a 3.4L DOHC V6 based on the old 3.1L pushrod V6, but only shared the crankshaft and connecting rods. It is the Eaton M90 from a 3800 L67 engine. but on that 3.4L it makes a LOT more power.

The why was because he could. The guy who built it lived in Connecticut until he moved to Maine. I last talked to him around 2010, when he intercooled it.
That thing blew through 3 4T65eHD's before he said "fuck it" and swapped to a Getrag 284 5 speed.

This is pretty fucking awesome to be honest. I wonder why they left it FWD though...if i wasnt so fucking poor id be throwing big V8s into shitboxes all day

I'll talk later about cams on email.

Cams are the heart of an engine.
They define the engine.
You can't build an engine then pick a cam.
But you can build an engine around a cam.
You can throw me a bucket of parts, but if I can pick my cam I'll beat you on the track- by getting the most out of what I have available.

Unless you like doritos.

BTW, I haven't tripped up in years

I'll send you an email tomorrow about my budget and power goals.

I'm old
And old school
Only thing I recognized was the m90.

Took my friends grandmother to buy a new car saturday- drove home in a Buick encore 1.4L turbo.
Thank god it has 10 airbags, they'll give a turbo to anybody nowadays...

>boomer: the engine
>engine porn

>I wonder why they left it FWD though
GM's W-body chassis doesn't take well to a RWD conversion. The chassis will not support it. In 1995, GM built the Chevrolet Monte Carlo Pro Street concept car to promote the new FWD Monte Carlo and get the public's imaginations going. Jon Moss built the concept for GM. The FWD W-body chassis was so unfriendly to a RWD conversion they cut out the entire floorpan and started from scratch. They then cut the floorpan from a then new Camaro, but the Camaro floorpan was too short and they had to lengthen it. Even the front strut towers, front suspension, and entire rear suspension came from a 4th gen Camaro. And under the hood went one of GM's then new small block V8 crate engines.
While neat and attention grabbing, the finished product actually handled WORSE than the FWD car they started with. The end result was suited for nothing but a drag strip.
hotrod.com/articles/42647-1995-chevrolet-monte-carlo-v8/

RWD doesn't fix everything user.

For anybody reading, you can't beat the performer rpm manifold.
Quality is top notch and design has been copied by many.
Sure theres the offenhauser (good luck at the swap meet) and crazy high priced godlys (dart).
But theres a reason its the standard- and I hate edelbrock.

This is what I imagined- something so butchered to "make it work" that you wind up with a polished turd for the sake of being retro for old farts (like me)

Where is the throttle on that thing?

That's an 8000 RPM built 1NZ-FE built for a Canadian market Toyota Echo hatchback. The car in question was an ex-Toyota cup race car converted for street use. Here's the car in question back when it was a racer.

The little petal

Actually sat in a real one at SEMA.
I can't even describe the urge...

How about a 4.6 stroker S65 with stacks and foam filters?

also, when the car was converted for street use, they painted it Blue so it looked like any normal Echo.

I helped build it. It's even crazier now, full dry sump and stuff, and that stupid air pump is finally gone thanks to Motec.

I could just imagine how hilarious it would be driving a sleeper like that.

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Every time mang

Owner has a good eye for detail.
I hate when someone builds shit with off the shelf parts and is OK with a (example) ford blue setup and a red msd coil.
I dare you to tell him
>bro, I saw this car kinda like yours, but all the vacuum lines were hand bent stainless steel tubing following the engines contours.
>shit was cash.

Someone feel my pain, cause that job sucked.

What's the list number on that holley?

>all the vacuum lines were hand bent stainless steel tubing following the engines contours.
>that job sucked

What the actual fuck. Story, now.

It's a few hundred miles away from me atm so I couldn't tell you. More or less a legit L88 fwiw.

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I can't be too specific of the customer.
But I replaced all the rubbr lines under the hood with hand bent stainless steel tubing- following contours of the engine and firewall/fenderwells.
Looked amazing, took an ass load of tubing because everything has to be perfect, so being off an 1/8 of an inch was not acceptable.

That's nuts. Then again, there are only so many times you can split vac lines from too much boost before you go insane.

BTW, this wasn't some 1966 pos with 2 vacuum lines- this was a 2001

Oh man, that sounds like a bitch.

Fortunately the car in question was our shop car, and we didn't have to worry about unnecessary cosmetic shit like that. Also, I don't work there anymore, so I doubly don't have to worry about it haha.

Since it was also an engine swap and we were redoing the harness, injector harness, tps, etc were also ran through stainless line.
It looked amazing.

This is why I go overboard now.
I have 37° AN fitting for my heater hoses.

I have $1,000 worth of brake lines on a truck that I got for free.

Another user had a thread asking if becoming a mechanic ruins the hobby.
It doesn't just ruin it- it turns it into something you can't compete with yourself with.

>gear driven

elaborate, not a native speaker.

Source? If there's a build log online I want to see it

I'm a fabricator.
I'm the custom hotrod mechanic that turns a drawing into a show winner.
I do all the work to create something amazing.
One of my cars was on the cover of "modified" magazine.
I also had a mustang (it was a previous cover car) but after I worked on it, tub, cage, dash extension- it was a cover car again on fab mustangs and exotic fords.(blue '66 fastback)

So after all that.
After someone pays my boss $20k
I go home and build my own car...
Damn that sucks. I just realized my last line.

I used to trip up and got tired of people calling bullshit on stuff I couldn't timestamp because I was at home, so I became a lurker.

And now I'm pissed at all that stuff I created that isn't mine.

the build was on a forum for an aftermarket company called microimage that specialized in aftermarket for subcompacts, particularly the Toyota Yaris and Echo. Unfortunately Micro Image bit the dust a few years ago and so did their forum, so the build thread is gone.

Damn. I'll hunt around for an archived copy

You may have some luck checking the Toyota Yaris forums. Aside from the intake manifold (modified ITB's from a 4A-GE), everything was off the shelf. Camshafts were made by JUN.

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Cool job man, I often wished to do work like that, but it would suck knowing my work is someone else's showpiece.

Zero respect for people paying someone to build a car for them.

Maximum respect for people building cars.

I would like to build cars one day, with a good friend. But we would own them all hahahaha

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why are there no intake valves on cylinder 3?

This made my Willy tingle

Because the cam lobes are in the intake phase of the combustion cycle

Fag.

It's a 1977. The stack of leaf springs under it makes it seem like it's a camper special but there is no special badging that I can see. Maybe this was a custom order truck.

I have the 3/4 ton camper special rear leafpacks. they are a mother.

Nice, mine looks like that minus the bottom 4 leaf springs

Actually let me go grab a picture quick, we'll see if mine is special ordered or a camper special

Here is the pic, can you tell me anything?

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Those Springs are in terrible condition :(

The size of that pack is wholly unnecessary for the application.

That's just surface rust. The springs are in great condition. When you live in Wisconsin the undersides of vehicles all look like that.

4 Turbos
20 Cylinders
4000 HP
It moves 1100 tons at 42mph on a flat grade.

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