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I love this forum, I learn something new every time I visit. My Valiant came to me with an inland shifter - had no idea what it was and tbh was going to bin it as it’s no good ergonomically.

Well I only went and found a 360! Straight from the engineers - dipped, crack tested and inspected. Also came with some 596 heads (1.88/1.60). Now to form a solid plan…

I’m definitely not, I get caught up over details more than anything. It is more a case of ‘while I’m there’ as it wouldn’t be a chore to do so. I will be checking square and level as best as I can but I am confident it won’t be perfect.

Going to bookmark this thread as it’s a good point of reference. This is what I’m opting for - nothing more than front and rear suspension, sat on its’ wheels. (Up on cribs) Would completely unloading the torsion beams have any discernible impact…?

Good thread! I was just about to post a question (still will) but thought it worth chiming in. I am mid way through stripping the external paint off my Valiant. I’ve bare-metal’d vehicles before using twist knot discs on a grinder but this time I didn’t want to create the noise, dust or deal...

That’s nice work right there. Thanks for the info, both.

I’m guessing to avoid headlight differences I’m limited to ‘67-‘68?

I’ve just discovered the right hand front fender on my ‘68 Valiant is in very poor shape around the headlight area (someone spent a lot of time with filler shaping it). Anyway I can’t live with that and I don’t want the rat look. Which year fenders are the same as the ‘68? (Ignoring...

It did but I’m fine with that and it’s not just the engine, the whole car is being gone through. That way I’ll not only know it front to back and inside out, I’ll have rectified all the other little nuggets of tomfoolery and neglect that has been inflicted upon it. Do it once, do it right.

I’ve actually be I’ve actually been mulling this over and it’s not such a mad idea. I’d want to build the bottom end (crank, rods, oil pump etc…got forged pistons) anyway regardless of the application and improve upon air flow. Fuelling is easily enough taken care of - I’m not new to working...

Oh don’t. I’ve had plenty of ‘helpful’ local enthusiasts nag about turbocharging the 318. :poke::rolleyes::D

Nothing worse than a cork in the combo! :D Nothing to lose, everything to gain - and a job to add to the list.

Cool

:D :D :D 1k and did run when parked in 2014 by all accounts…it certainly didn’t run in the summer, when it was dragged back out of where it was parked and parted out. To much rot for even the banger racers to want to patch it up and hammer around the racetrack

Except it didn’t prove to be quite what was first believed (cam and pistons, heads only appear to have been ported to the gaskets). Neil should know the engine, he put it in the car years back.

It’s your old Valiant. It wont be seeing a 1/4 mile ever again, it doesn’t interest me. It may well wind up slung around tracks of a different kind though… No I haven’t but the name rings a bell. Who is he again?

Good video - does illustrate the point well and not annoying like some of the presenters can be in this type of thing.

Sorry to bring this back from the dead. I have a 2dr ‘68 and someone locally is selling a rear wing identical to that which keeps tempting me. In my head it would look even better with the bumpers shaved a bit on the inner lip and remounted to sit flush with the body shape. I have a spare front...

Yep and I initially dismissed it as I want to keep it a screamer. If the bores cannot be honed and the spare 318 I have isn’t economically worth the work I will consider the options. Mad isn’t it that big blocks are everywhere over here but try finding 360s…that said I’d still put the same...

Looks like I may have caught head gasket failure over cylinder 7, also the coolant was more water than coolant in the system, fuel in the oil (gulp) and the oil hadn’t been changed in a long time. I've never owned an American vehicle that hadn’t suffered some sort of neglect under British...

I didn’t get much time last night, block is now stripped. Pics below hopefully. I will give everything a good clean over the weekend. Can’t see in the bores very well right now

That strikes me as a fair question if I have any more unwelcome news when the bottom end comes apart I’ll be fitting a 400hp BMW I6 diesel engine :p but seriously, I will know more later. If I cannot reuse much of the engine in its last guise I will need to prioritise replacement of bad before...

:p Magnum heads - I could spend who knows how long trying to find some over here, assuming I did and they were in serviceable order there is the cost of bringing in the parts to refurbish, machining and from what I’ve seen, intake etc are specific to fit it? Would be quicker and perhaps work...

I was looking at the cost of heads on the Summit app this afternoon. I did notice that Trickflow are quoting higher flow rates than Edelbrock so could be more of a goer straight out of the box? Flipped the block and pulled #1 piston and rod this evening, noticed the big end and the big end...

I am not knowledgeable enough to judge in all honesty and I’ve not seen a set of unported ones up close to be able to compare meaningfully. Thank you for the links - will be interesting reading when I get home.

Well that’s nice to know :)

Well I’m guessing these aren’t KB167s like the now folklore surrounding this engine once suggested. I’ve done some searching but the eyebrows and centre relief doesn’t match anything…

When you said ‘magazine’ I thought I’d put the wrong link! Headers - tick. Air gap - no problem, will order. 750 - no problem, will order. Cam - happy to make what I have work

400 hp at 6000 for a 318 would make me very happy.