Asking for Advice Fix 273 or Replace

With the ease of finding another motor to rebuild and replace yours with, I would probably build another motor, probably a 318 since they are plentiful, and keep your motor in there until the replacement is done and ready to go in. Then I would swap the motors over and put all your dressup items on the new mill and make it a weekend project!!

2nd option is to remove your motor and get inside and see whats going on in there. Hopefully you will still have the Commando items inside like the solid lifter cam and 10.5/1 pistons. I suspect that maybe when your motor was "rebuilt" they didn't want to pop for the 10.5 pistons, as for a long time they were unavailable and pricey to have custom made. I'm not sure they are even being reproduced now, but I thought I had seen an article that Egge was remanning them. Option 2 is going to see your car down for a while longer, but with winter coming on maybe you have the opprotunity to do so now!!

Did I mention that you could come over to Pinckney and pick up one of these 318's I have for a measly $50.00?? I can even get you close in date to your car's year!! Either way you go, good luck with your decision. I would certainly be looking into it, a quart every 500 miles is a lot of blow-by!! Geof