Any one interested in the oiling mods I did?
OK, so the short block is together finally. I'm still waiting on pushrods, valve springs and cam bolt and washer.
Here's a pic of the girdle. I had to clearance it where the rod notches are. I didn't really make them deeper but I had to angle the notch that is already there about an 1/8 of an inch on the top side of the girdle at about a 45* angle to the bottom side. This pic shows the bottom side and the clearance it has now.
Here is a pic of the modified oil filter mounting plate. This plate originally had only 4 holes. I drilled 4 more to a size that is one drill size bigger than the holes in a Mopar oil filter. I also drilled the mounting stud hole to a 1/2 inch and radiused the edges.
Here you can see the modified oil pick up, I had to lengthen the depth 1/2 an inch and shortened it 1 1/2 inches to put it 7/16 of an inch off the bottom of the pan and move it closer to the center of the sump.
And finally here it is assembled.
What I don't have a pic of is the front of the right oil galley, I wanted to put a plug in it so I wasn't just using the cam thrust plate to seal the galley but couldn't find a cup plug that would fit. So I had to drill about 1/4 inch into the galley with an 11/16 drill bit and then I hammered an 11/16 cup plug into it. This actually worked out very well as it created a step in the galley so I couldn't put the plug in too deep as you don't want to block or partially restrict the oil feed passage to the #1 main saddle.
OK, so the short block is together finally. I'm still waiting on pushrods, valve springs and cam bolt and washer.
Here's a pic of the girdle. I had to clearance it where the rod notches are. I didn't really make them deeper but I had to angle the notch that is already there about an 1/8 of an inch on the top side of the girdle at about a 45* angle to the bottom side. This pic shows the bottom side and the clearance it has now.
Here is a pic of the modified oil filter mounting plate. This plate originally had only 4 holes. I drilled 4 more to a size that is one drill size bigger than the holes in a Mopar oil filter. I also drilled the mounting stud hole to a 1/2 inch and radiused the edges.
Here you can see the modified oil pick up, I had to lengthen the depth 1/2 an inch and shortened it 1 1/2 inches to put it 7/16 of an inch off the bottom of the pan and move it closer to the center of the sump.
And finally here it is assembled.
What I don't have a pic of is the front of the right oil galley, I wanted to put a plug in it so I wasn't just using the cam thrust plate to seal the galley but couldn't find a cup plug that would fit. So I had to drill about 1/4 inch into the galley with an 11/16 drill bit and then I hammered an 11/16 cup plug into it. This actually worked out very well as it created a step in the galley so I couldn't put the plug in too deep as you don't want to block or partially restrict the oil feed passage to the #1 main saddle.
