318 "Rebuild ish"
We recently posted a thread titled, "interesting discovery inside 318", reguarding finding a mis matched piston inside the engine upon tear down.
Thanks to the vast knowledge of members here on a FABO, we believe that it is a service replacement piston, and although looks different, is comparable in weight and compression.
The engine is a 1983 318 out of my uncles Ramcharger plow truck.
This engine is being "freshened" for use in our grand father, father, and son/grandson restoration project. A 1963 Plymouth Valiant Signet 200 2 door hardtop.
The restoration thread can be found here for those interested.
Father, Son, and Grand Father project. 1963 Valiant
Upon looking up parts, we have discovered that, with careful spending, for about $350 - $400 we can get a gasket kit, piston rings, rod bearings, main bearings, timing chain, oil pump, camshaft, lifters, and valve springs.
We pulled a couple main and rod Bearing caps and everything looked really good.
Here's the plan. Deglaze the cylinders with a three finger hone. Throughly clean the block and rotating assembly, and assemble with new rings and bearings.
For the cylinder heads, were planing on disassembling them and cleaning them throughly, than doing a couple scrubs with a hand lapper to confirm valve to seat relationship and replacing the valve stem seals. Than measuring between the stem seal and retainer to see how much lift we can run without making things complicated.
For a camshaft we're considering going with this grind from summit racing
Summit Racing® Classic Cam and Lifter Kits SUM-K6901
There was a local guy with a nice Engle/ Hughes grind, but at almost .500 lift on a factory rocker, I'm afraid it would be a little hard on a cheap valve spring and the factory push rods.
The rest of the engine will consist of a Holley street dominator intake donated by Uncle Geoff, Cosgig!, a Holley 390 4bbl (could be changed out for other carbs we have), and factory 1964-1966 exhaust manifolds.
Any thoughts or input is welcomed.
Jason is very excited to rebuild ish his first engine.
Thanks for reading. Eric and Jason.
We recently posted a thread titled, "interesting discovery inside 318", reguarding finding a mis matched piston inside the engine upon tear down.
Thanks to the vast knowledge of members here on a FABO, we believe that it is a service replacement piston, and although looks different, is comparable in weight and compression.
The engine is a 1983 318 out of my uncles Ramcharger plow truck.
This engine is being "freshened" for use in our grand father, father, and son/grandson restoration project. A 1963 Plymouth Valiant Signet 200 2 door hardtop.
The restoration thread can be found here for those interested.
Father, Son, and Grand Father project. 1963 Valiant
Upon looking up parts, we have discovered that, with careful spending, for about $350 - $400 we can get a gasket kit, piston rings, rod bearings, main bearings, timing chain, oil pump, camshaft, lifters, and valve springs.
We pulled a couple main and rod Bearing caps and everything looked really good.
Here's the plan. Deglaze the cylinders with a three finger hone. Throughly clean the block and rotating assembly, and assemble with new rings and bearings.
For the cylinder heads, were planing on disassembling them and cleaning them throughly, than doing a couple scrubs with a hand lapper to confirm valve to seat relationship and replacing the valve stem seals. Than measuring between the stem seal and retainer to see how much lift we can run without making things complicated.
For a camshaft we're considering going with this grind from summit racing
Summit Racing® Classic Cam and Lifter Kits SUM-K6901
There was a local guy with a nice Engle/ Hughes grind, but at almost .500 lift on a factory rocker, I'm afraid it would be a little hard on a cheap valve spring and the factory push rods.
The rest of the engine will consist of a Holley street dominator intake donated by Uncle Geoff, Cosgig!, a Holley 390 4bbl (could be changed out for other carbs we have), and factory 1964-1966 exhaust manifolds.
Any thoughts or input is welcomed.
Jason is very excited to rebuild ish his first engine.
Thanks for reading. Eric and Jason.