Recent content by polkat

Could be slipped marks on the dampher. Late timing can cause the overheating. Try advancing it a bit and see if it runs better.

Well, I don't mind adjustments on the solid lifter rockers, and there are a few good grinds out there for the solids, but I wasn't aware that the stock rocker ratio was so off. Is this common among them, or can you search out good ones?

Also seperate bellhousings are always for manual trannys. The most common automatic for a slant is a slant 6 904, or it's variants (but NOT from a smallblock V-8 which won't fit) and the bellhousings are an intergal part of the auto's (one piece). There was also a 727 for the slant found mostly...

Val69_170, sorry, didn't mean to hijack your thread. Dan, thanks for the info! I'm learning (trying to anyway). I guess the real question is if, other then no longer having to do adjustments, is there any real advantage to running hydralic lifters in a street/strip car? I'd think the solids...

Sorry, I didn't mean that the lifters were in the heads (they are obviously in the block). But it was my understanding that the old blocks didn't carry enough oil through the lifter galley for hydralic's to work. Is that wrong?

Here's a pic of a slant bellhousing I found somewhere. This one is for a manual tranny, but the flange to engine is the same on all of them. Of course, you can't measure bolt distances on a picture, but you could print ot out and take it with you. Notice mostly the starter motor placement, which...

I wouldn't necessarily call a '69 block early. Any slant 6 head with the solid lifter setup will fit any earlier slant 6 block. The heads are the same for any block size. There were some changes in later years to the spark plug (which still works fine). The heads eventually went to hydralic...

Anybody have any used but reusable slant six 198 rods at a decent price, preferably in northern CA? PM me here Thanks!

memike, do you have a link to that thread?

The double row timing chain is NAPA part 9168, used from 1962 to 1975 on the slant six. The sprockets are part S338 and S339.

I'm getting ready to turbocharge a stock 225 myself. From the research I've done on the web (Yikes! Info from the web!?), it's seems that there are three turbo's that can be adapted which would be well suited to the 225 slant, based on their maps, size, and flow. The PTE 6262DBB turbo from a...

Oversize valves are somewhat useless unless the head is properly ported to take advantage of them. Indeed, some mild porting, particularly in the pockets, will help the stock valves emmensly in both naturally asperiated and forced induction. What 2 Darts mentioned about forced induction is true...

As the title says. Has anyone here built a draw-thru slant 6 turbo setup? What was used in your setup, and any pics? Thanks!

4mm is a lot of movement against spring pressure, and would indicate valve guides/stems that are basically destroyed. So I am wondering if we dealing with mis-recognition of parts here? You said "The pieces with the springs." I wonder if you mean the 'rocker arms'? They also have little springs...

The section on that site is called Boost & Nitrous, and there isn't any thread dealing with fuel referencing that I could find either. it was discussed on that site that referencing the stock fuel pump only works on lower power levels, apparently because higher levels of boost will just confuse...