Main Studs??

moturbopar said

I remember when I was younger, and had a lot more fun with cars, we used to throw stupid stuff together. We built a 307 chevy (I know LOL!) that was thrown together, stock cast pistons, double hump heads, 2.02 1.60 valves, home ported, We threw arp rod bolts in the stock rods, no machining, arp main bolts, again no machine work, and a comp 270h. I have no Idea how that engine held together, or even ran. was in a 65 cj5. with 4.27 gears and the stock 3spd trans. Thing was pretty dang quick, won a lot of street races (don't do it anymore!). That thing regularly hit 6500 rpm with a couple missed shifts hit 7000+! Anyways I grew up and learned better, But unfortunately, it costs me a lot more $$$ to build engine now. But for some reason I just have this urge to build a JY engine, on the cheap, say screw the rules lets see what happens!

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True that! I had a BAD rod knock in a 318 when I was about 17 years old. I was getting on it and doing second gear chirps always. Finally I really revved the bageebers out of it and it barked real hard, harder than normal. I came to the stop sign with real bad KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK. I drove the car for a few days like that. I eventually had a mechanic across the street come over and say dang that thing sounds real bad, he showed me how to pull the plug wires to find the cylinder it was on. He finds it and says…… Now jack it up off the motor mounts, pull the pan and put a new rod bearing in it. I was like really? He said, do I look like I am joking? So that is exactly what I did. I ran the dog piss out of that car for years after doing the repair like that, chirping 2nd gear everywhere I went! I ended up selling that Dart probably 2 years later and it still ran really good. :burnout: