Putting head on slant six

RustyRatRod said

Run um. It'll be fine. Before I swapped the 360 in my 65, it had a good runnin 225 in it. When I first got it, it had a dead skip. I did a compression test and it had a dead cylinder. I took the valve cover off and it had a bent pushrod. I took it out, beat it back straight with a hammer on a vise put it back in, adjusted the valves and drove it for two years before I pulled it. It ran fine.

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That’s awesome. I feel like 225s want to run no matter what. On that note, a friend of mine had a 225 dart in high school. We were headed to work at a local mom and pop automotive shop (had a field full of Mopar cars behind it including a 69 charger 500 hidden under a blackberry bush) after school and we heard a loud bang sound. Followed by a knocking. We kept driving another 10 miles like that because we didn’t want to be late for work. We put it up on the lift and took a look under the engine and there was a baseball size hole in the side of the block! Piston had done some damage but it was still running.