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I was looking at the Howard 718001-09 which is pretty similar just has a much higher rated stall.

Rear tires are 225/70-14. I’m running stock steel rims. Guess I’ll look into upgrading torque converter and rear gears.

I’m almost positive the rear end already has 3.23. I’m learning that going with a 2000 stall when having the transmission rebuilt was possibly a mistake.

Thank you lol. Ideally it’s going to be a fun street car. Not a daily driver but as close to it as a hot rod can be

I’m not going to lie this might be too much detailed information for me to comprehend. Time to figure out what all of that means.

Heard. I’ll measure compression ratio and piston depth at TDC and get back when I can.

Can’t recall gears off the top of my head. 2.73 maybe? Possibly 3.23. Not sure It’s an 8.25 from a roadrunner that the previous owner put in. Compression is a best guess as well. 10:1 presumably once I get these aluminum heads on.

Thank you! I’ll get to looking

Looking for cam suggestions for my 318. It’s bored .030 with flat top pistons and I’m getting ready to put on speedmaster aluminum cylinder heads on with an air gap intake and a 600 Holley carb. 727 with 2000 stall. posted from mobile

Haha I meant in the guys own garage not a shop. My bad. And I contacted him and he said that the plug was put back in

Ahh gotcha. And no not that I know of. Was a garage rebuild.

I will definitely contact him and ask about the rear oil gallery. And correct me if I’m wrong but I believe the engine has solid lifters in it which wouldn’t be affected by low oil pressure..? I definitely will pull the pan off and check the oil pump mating surface at some point. And I have...

The guy I bought it from installed a high pressure/high volume pump, Not sure if it was a melling pimp though I’ll have to look at the receipts he gave me. And as far as a full tear down goes, I really hope it doesn’t come to that as the engine basically was freshly rebuild by the previous...

So a little update. Haven’t been on the site in a while but I got around to checking out the valve train and noticed that there is an insane amount of clearance on all of my rocker arms. Both sides of the engine. Anybody have any ideas as to what could cause this? And is this a possible source...