72 Scamp 440 Build
Well, it's been a year since I last made a post, a lot has happened since then after the last post there were problems with the project that slowed me down and problems in life as well this is what happened to the car. First I took the car to my school and did the alignment, then proceed to dive it 1.5 miles to the exhaust shop then there was the first big surprise... once the exhaust was on you could hear a loud top end noise it turned out that one of the rocker adjustment screws had come undone and allowed the pushrod to hit the rocker throwing aluminum through the head then into the oil, it was unknown how long this had been happening this put a pretty big kibosh on my plans.
To try and fix it oil was used to flush all to the chips into the pan to be drained most of it was removed but when the filter was inspected there was a lot of aluminum in it. To try and flush the rest of the system I proceeded to do an oil and filter change over every 50 miles this was done twice and with the last one there was no aluminum left in the engine, but the damage done was unknown.
Then once my faith in the engine was restored the second surprise happened... slowly there was more and more smoke and oil in the exhaust before the cause for that problem was found the third surprise happened... the one freeze plug that had given me trouble getting it in right blew out while testing how well the car could cool...
At this point, I was done messing around the engine had to come out. The disassembly on the engine went smoothly, the aluminum had done only a little damage to one of the rod bearings nothing major but I wasn't taking any more chances and decided to just put new bearings in any way, better to be safe than sorry. Then came the heads the reason for the oil and smoke was because over half of the valve guides were leaking oil into the cylinders at a high rate at this point, I was done with the cheap crap from 440 source I threw the POS heads and rockers away and upgraded to Trick Flow 240 heads and Hughes roller rockers, with the new parts the refresh on the engine went smoothly and everything was cleaned multiple times to make sure that no aluminum was left. I'm very happy how it turned out I'm much more confident in it now not having to worry about cheaply made parts.
Here is the engine as it sits now until the bodywork is complete
To try and fix it oil was used to flush all to the chips into the pan to be drained most of it was removed but when the filter was inspected there was a lot of aluminum in it. To try and flush the rest of the system I proceeded to do an oil and filter change over every 50 miles this was done twice and with the last one there was no aluminum left in the engine, but the damage done was unknown.
Then once my faith in the engine was restored the second surprise happened... slowly there was more and more smoke and oil in the exhaust before the cause for that problem was found the third surprise happened... the one freeze plug that had given me trouble getting it in right blew out while testing how well the car could cool...
At this point, I was done messing around the engine had to come out. The disassembly on the engine went smoothly, the aluminum had done only a little damage to one of the rod bearings nothing major but I wasn't taking any more chances and decided to just put new bearings in any way, better to be safe than sorry. Then came the heads the reason for the oil and smoke was because over half of the valve guides were leaking oil into the cylinders at a high rate at this point, I was done with the cheap crap from 440 source I threw the POS heads and rockers away and upgraded to Trick Flow 240 heads and Hughes roller rockers, with the new parts the refresh on the engine went smoothly and everything was cleaned multiple times to make sure that no aluminum was left. I'm very happy how it turned out I'm much more confident in it now not having to worry about cheaply made parts.
Here is the engine as it sits now until the bodywork is complete
