'68 318 to carbed Magnum 5.2: Check my checklist
Everything went as perfect as one could ask for, except for the passenger engine mount, which refused to line up with the K-frame without some persuasion.
Unfortunately, when I went to install the bolt, the welds on the nut at the other end gave way. All of them were cold welds. Bolt still wasn't centered when I installed it. I can still tighten the two, but I still have to center the stepped edge of the bolt with the engine mount. Won't be easy no matter what I do (and I'm not out of the notion of considering a new mount, not that I expect it to be different in terms of fit).
Otherwise, the M1 intake, B&M flexplate, and center sump pipe and pan were pretty much the only aftermarket doo-dads I needed to throw on the Frankenmagnum to make it fit. The rest is glorious excess.
And in other news, Greaseball gets taken apart:
I was hoping for '67 closed-chamber heads since everything else on the engine was dated '67, but the engine threw a killjoy and dumped open-chamber 675's on me:
See anything interesting?
Hello there, Mr. Burnt Valve. Looks like that water-in-the-coolant-only mantra of the previous owner came back to bite this engine in the butt.
Still haven't found the culprit of the third problem cylinder, but really didn't have time for figuring that out yet. To think that I may have been able to solve all of this with a simple valve job or another pair of heads.
But then we wouldn't have this fun thread, would we?
-Kurt
Everything went as perfect as one could ask for, except for the passenger engine mount, which refused to line up with the K-frame without some persuasion.
Unfortunately, when I went to install the bolt, the welds on the nut at the other end gave way. All of them were cold welds. Bolt still wasn't centered when I installed it. I can still tighten the two, but I still have to center the stepped edge of the bolt with the engine mount. Won't be easy no matter what I do (and I'm not out of the notion of considering a new mount, not that I expect it to be different in terms of fit).
Otherwise, the M1 intake, B&M flexplate, and center sump pipe and pan were pretty much the only aftermarket doo-dads I needed to throw on the Frankenmagnum to make it fit. The rest is glorious excess.
And in other news, Greaseball gets taken apart:
I was hoping for '67 closed-chamber heads since everything else on the engine was dated '67, but the engine threw a killjoy and dumped open-chamber 675's on me:
See anything interesting?
Hello there, Mr. Burnt Valve. Looks like that water-in-the-coolant-only mantra of the previous owner came back to bite this engine in the butt.
Still haven't found the culprit of the third problem cylinder, but really didn't have time for figuring that out yet. To think that I may have been able to solve all of this with a simple valve job or another pair of heads.
But then we wouldn't have this fun thread, would we?
-Kurt
