Yard Sale
After the manual box and header install and put a simple 2 1/2 exhaust with a crossover pipe together, I bought the largest magnaflows I could find and slammed it all together. It just dumps in front of the axle. I'll run it out back after the axle swap, I will also be using the next smaller muffler size, the current ones are just too big and dont tuck up far enough.
I scored a set of seemingly fresh 302 heads from a Diplomat at one of my local yards. I started doing research on the required parts. I ordered up an XE262 cam and new chain, along with the thin head gaskets. I cleaned up the ports and bowls of the 302 heads using tips I found this website. I did a compression test and saw low 140's across all 8. I figured this was good enough and planned to swap top ends the following weekend.... I was all motivated and had a clear 2 days I started getting it all opened up. I noticed a very slight ridge on the cylinders when I pulled the pax head. I thought about this for a minute and decided it would be okay for what I was trying to do. That was all fine until I started pulling the cam out, the cam bearings were very bad. I'n sure if Id put an oil pressure gauge on I would have expected this. At this point I wasnt going ant further with the short block in this condition. So I buttoned it all up and pushed it into the street. The search began...
After the manual box and header install and put a simple 2 1/2 exhaust with a crossover pipe together, I bought the largest magnaflows I could find and slammed it all together. It just dumps in front of the axle. I'll run it out back after the axle swap, I will also be using the next smaller muffler size, the current ones are just too big and dont tuck up far enough.
I scored a set of seemingly fresh 302 heads from a Diplomat at one of my local yards. I started doing research on the required parts. I ordered up an XE262 cam and new chain, along with the thin head gaskets. I cleaned up the ports and bowls of the 302 heads using tips I found this website. I did a compression test and saw low 140's across all 8. I figured this was good enough and planned to swap top ends the following weekend.... I was all motivated and had a clear 2 days I started getting it all opened up. I noticed a very slight ridge on the cylinders when I pulled the pax head. I thought about this for a minute and decided it would be okay for what I was trying to do. That was all fine until I started pulling the cam out, the cam bearings were very bad. I'n sure if Id put an oil pressure gauge on I would have expected this. At this point I wasnt going ant further with the short block in this condition. So I buttoned it all up and pushed it into the street. The search began...
