I’ve finally started to get into assembly of my 318 that I have been getting parts for all summer. Let me preface this to say this is my first engine build. I’ve been reading and learning as much as I can and now it’s time to start building it. Also have been studying
@krazykuda post on rebuilding in the how to section. I got this block complete carb to pan when I bought my 72 dart. From the numbers I could find on the block and motor mounts and oil pan, this is from a truck. A 1972 truck.
I sent the block out to a local machine shop to get checked and proceed with boring and other machine work to build a pretty stout small block 318.
I have been taking pictures as I go and will need some help from anyone interested in responding. Here’s where I’m at so far.
Block was bored .030 over, 0 decked for the new KB 167 pistons, crank was balanced, rods were shaved and resized. Block is cleaned and painted. Plugs and Freeze plugs in minus the 2 that go behind the timing chain. Still need to get those. I installed the pistons on the rods with the lock rings.
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