Crank end play, destroyed converter, 408 nightmare
Jus saying;
My engine went together in 1999 at zero-deck,with Eddies and ARP headbolts and their lube.
The first iteration was with the 292/292/108 cam and .028 gaskets; Scr was 11.1 @a tic over 185 on my gauge. I've been saying 11.3Scr for a long time but I just did the math, and I think it's only 11.1; so sorry guys I don't know when I screwed up.
I torqued them down in several steps; 50%,then; 80%,95 and 105%. The last pull was a 1/4 turn release and then pull to 105%. No retorque. By late summer of 2000 I had decided that cam didn't suit my driving style, and so I sold it. That winter,2000/2001, I pulled that engine apart and found the .028s migrating into the valley, but not yet leaking. I blamed the gaskets.
Next,I installed a Hughes 223/110 cam and 1008s.The Scr with the thicker gasket came to ~10.8 with pressure about the same at that time, but now with a lil more Q. no biggie.
About 12 months later, I freshened the engine, and did same. But with new 1008s
About 12 months later, I freshened again but reused the previous gaskets, no retorque
About 12 months later, you guessed it, same,but with reusing previous 1008s, no retorque.
Now we're into 2004. and the 223 cam died. So I pumped up the Scr by decking and installed the next bigger Hughes cam,a 230/110 and the pressure dropped just a lil.But the Q went down. And again I installed the used gaskets with no retorque.
Now it's 15 years later and the engine is at ~10.95Scr and 180psi with .034Q...... and still on used gaskets.
Jus saying.
But see; My idle-timing is 14*, and I slowed my power-timing to 28*@2800,with a two-stage curve, which delayed the all-in to finish at 32@3400. And I burn 87E10; you know; the stuff everybody calls skunk-pee..
That 367 combo went 93 in the Eighth ............... on that skunk-pee
Jus saying.
Ode to the mighty 367
Mr Wallace says;
Your Horsepower computed from your vehicle weight of 3467 pounds and 93 MPH is 433 HP.
Tell me again why I should want a stroker...... jus saying.
Oh and BTW, that was shifting at 7000,some would say; waaaaaaay past the power peak and a total waste of engine; and the tach was sorta stuck on 7000, ie spinning all the way. Imagine if I had had traction and played the power-peak.
jus saying...........
