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No racing at our LVMS track at all in May. They have the Electric Daisy Festival where they draw 100,000 Hippies = Screaming and Naked! The tell me they make more money on that than all the drag racing events the entire year! The trash cleanup and removal of all the comatose bodies takes...

Do you have a 130 /143 tooth flywheel? There is a 172 tooth ( I think that is accurate ) for a non gear reduction starter that the pitch of the gear may cause the starter to stick in engaged position.

No Oil pressure reading is fine. Oil only goes to rockers in a few certain positions of the engine rotation. Rotate it a bit at a time as Myron said in post #2. He knows these engines as well as anyone I know!

I would have a concern with cutting the mains down over .300 on a 360 cast crank. I would also be concerned with the opening up of the 318 block to 2.810. It would be quite a machining job for me and it would make the skinny 318 Main caps even skinnier yet. I have seen a 360 stock eliminator...

The 360 has a much bigger Main bearing size! As I recall it is 2.81 The 318/340/273 has a much smaller Main Bearing size. As I recall 2.50 You can buy longer stroke cranks with the 2.50 Main size. A 4 inch would get you 391 CI as I recall. The 408 converted 360 is a good combo! The main caps...

Can you unbolt trans crossmember and lower transmission tailshaft enough to get a allen head socket with a extension on it. Or cut a couple small holes in floorboard and replace them with a plate to get from drivers area. Someone beat my post by a few seconds!

This hood held up well @150MPH+ on Pinks All Out! It is a solid well built piece.

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I am having way more fun than a 76 year old Guy usually does! For years I raced out of Bob Mazzolini's Shop and he gave me a shirt that said "How much Horsepower can I have and still go to Heaven?".

They were sold but when I measured them I had the calibers in the valve relief pocket. they are actually 1.73 to 1.74 probably closer to 1.740. I may have the rods = I have a 5000' shop that you can barely walk thru that is two stories. Also Six smaller shops full of parts and a dozen...

On my engine I ran Hemi length custom rods I will remeasure everything in a day or two. I wrote on top of box 440 with 1/2 inch stroke I cut the deck some but i do not remember how much. The Hemi rods are about .100 Longer ( I do not remember anymore )?

I am confused = I will measure again tomorrow or Thursday.

I measured Wrist pin hole to top of flat of piston top and then added 1/2 of pin diameter 1.09 divided by 1/2 =.545. Am I doing this right??? I had written on top of the box the bore and stroke of the engine they were in and deck height. I do not remember how much I cut off the deck of block...

I think a couple thou or maybe three. But they watch you pretty close and you can not have it up very much at all without a problem. However, I won a heads Up class race in Denver about 10 years ago at the Nationals by .0001. That is a Single Ten thousand of a second! My car JUST made weigh...