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Working about an hour or so on the weeknights that I'm free. The past week has been surprisingly busy for me, and the trans isn't the only project on the car that needs to get finished. Not to sound super defensive, I really made this post right before life happened and I had no free time to...

Was based on my experience when I had to limp the car home with a fluid leak (I'm smart enough to not do this again), it felt like my converter was getting looser and looser as I went. To verify pump functionality could I pull a cooler line to see if there's pressure out? I hate this "maybe it's...

I'll pull fluid out of it tonight to get the level down. On Saturday I had the car in the air in gear, when all of that went well I put it down and then let it idle back into the garage. Moved about 1 car length. It seemed like the converter worked normally, it idled up and in really easy. I...

From like 5 inches to 3

Get her up in the air today. Goes in and out of gear good, it'll roll forward and backward while idling. Car still needs some work before it goes on the road to test but I think we're fine. Fluid level is down a bit but still a bit high. I don't think it got in to 2nd or 3rd, so I'm not sure if...

Also, I do believe the level has gone down on the dipstick since firing the engine, it's still high but not as high as it was. And I trust the trans builder more than myself. I assume I'm being paranoid but I just wanted to check that I hadn't missed anything obvious. The likelihood that I can't...

Should be able to get to work on it tonight. I'll keep y'all updated

That's the confirmation I was looking for, lol. I have about 10 other projects on the car to get it roadworthy, so I haven't actually lost any time staring at the trans. Just wanted to confirm I wasn't missing something obvious

Just getting my 5.9 Magnum swap installed into my 68 Valiant and trying to figure out what I need to do with my fresh built 904. I prefilled the converter (stock) with a good amount (honestly don't remember how much but I believe it was over a quart) and installed it all. Like I said this is a...

Hughes says 35 dABDC is the actual closing point Edit: have seen some articles that say to add 15* to a .050" lift point. That math gives me 50* and 7.99dcr

Gasket thickness included, heads are open chambered. Piston measurement was taken with the old bearings I received the block with, rod and main bearings just snug, not torqued.

What kind of guidance on dcr to octane requirement is there? Rule of thumb on that?

Block hasn't been decked, kb pistons measured .030 in the hole which was part of my 9:1 calc.

So I'm trying to rebuild a 318 to throw into my Valiant. I've posted a couple other threads about this build and this is the latest update with me feeling like I'm either in over my head, or just got too excited about parts and didn't spec the correct parts. Basically I picked up a .020" over...

The car is going to pretty much live at and around sea level, so setting it up for dense air is more important than performance at high altitude. To note, I had the 9.4 number in my head and didn't check my notes, that was my potential highest number with some pretty big work to get there. Sorry...