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douglas340

douglas340

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This is my wife & I`s new weekend club/track car, The AP is almost ready for paint, I have been working on it for about 9 or 10 months now, It`s got a slant 6 & 904 in it at the moment, But I just swapped my 360(that I was going to stroke)For a steel crank 71 standard bore 340 short block & 727 that will be making Its way into the engine bay :twisted: The paint is called silver mink (base & clear) with a light gold pearl in the clear
Here are some photos of my progress so far.
Cheers Doug
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Got some weld draglites the other day for the AP

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This is the 340 & 727 that I swapped for the 360, The heads(J)and manifold I have to give back, The guy wants to run them on the 360, It was part of the deal.

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The progress has been a bit slow on the car, I was hoping to paint it after Christmas but it seemed to rain here every weekend, And I’m still working on a club members car.
I have been sourcing parts from the USA & Australia for my 340 build, I wanted to do a budget build but do it as cheap and as strong as I could so I have been trying to buy quality new & second-hand parts for it.
The list & prices so far:
Complete 340ci(these are rare & hard to fined in Australia)carb to sump & 727 auto $2200.00...I sold the Heads, Air cleaner assembly, Manifold, Rods, Headers, got back $600.00
Machine work: Block 40up rebore + new cam bearings $600.00, Crank 10/10 regrind $180.00
New never used mopar alloy heads with head bolts $1600.00 shipped to my door step.
Second-hand but in VGC Yella Terra roller rockers, Melings HV oil pump, Eddelbrock 340 torker-2 manifold, Romack steel balancer, Re-curved Mopar(not sure if I will be using this)dizzy & crane HI-6 ignition. I got all this of the same guy cheap & a heap of other stuff that I sold off at a profit, All up these owe me $120.00
Slightly used Second-hand Vanola 40up forged pistons & new rings $300.00
Slightly used second-hand Eagle SIR forged & full floating I beam rods $180.00
New never used Comp-Cams solid cam & lifters $190.00
Second-hand MSD dizzy $120.00
Slightly used Second-hand Sanderson ceramic coated headers, Not sure if they will fit in the AP $280.00
New Clevite 77 Rod, Crank, Cam bearings & TRW brass freeze plug kit $180.00
So far that`s $5330 for a very strong & hopefully very quick motor, I have a Holley(came with the 340)750 D/P that needs a kit, I need to get the motor balanced, Get a Gasket kit & some other bits & pieces, Hopefully It will end up around $6000 for the motor.
Some other bits I got for the AP:
Used for mock up only B&M Pro-ratchet shifter & alloy water pump & crank pulleys
Never used Magnum Force upper control arms, With ball joints camber kit & powder coated
Cheers Doug


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After about 14 months trying to paint this AP I finely got some paint on the outside today, Just the boot and bonnet today & the rest tomorrow I hope.
I`m back from Townsville(north Queensland)for good now so I can get stuck into my cars and put one on the road.
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It`s finally painted :D .......Looks awesome & It`s come up better than I expected, Now to put it back together.
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I got the AP colour sanded today, This is the first cut.......Two more to go & I can put it back together.

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Very nice work and love the color.You might wanna change valve springs going with a camshaft over 500 lift.Good luck.
 
pettybludart said:
Very nice work and love the color.You might wanna change valve springs going with a camshaft over 500 lift.Good luck.
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I sold the mopar/eddy heads and replaced them with these:
Slightly Used Shady Dell Stage II Ported Edelbrock Heads with Comp Roller springs and Titanium retainers.

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These are the flow numbers when they were stock out of the box & what they flow now:

LIFT-----IN/EX
.100”--72.5/N/A
.200”--131.1/107.0
.300”--182.9/151.8
.400”--216.6/181.2
.450”--227.7/182.9
.500”--235.9/185.6
.550”--238.7/185.6
.600”--242.2/185.6
.650”--243.2/185.6
.700”--243.2/185.6

SDSS ported Flow #'s & CFM Gain over stock
LIFT--IN/EX IN EX
.100"--72.6/NA 0.1
.200"--146.9/110.8 15.8 3.8
.300"--196.3/150.1 13.4 -1.7
.400"--245.8/180.2 29.2 -1
.450"--259.0/193.8 31.3 9.9
.500"--268.6/203.4 32.7 17.8
.550"--271.8/212.9 33.1 27.3
.600"--276.6/218.6 34.4 33
.650"--283.5/221.6 40.3 36
.700"--286.6/223.8 43.4 38.2
 
Thanks for the comments

I started to put this thing back together, I painted up the dash, Not sure if I will go with it yet....See how it looks in the car when the interior goes in.

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Great job on the paintwork. The car looks really good that color.
I love the 4 door cars, a lot of people in North America hate them, but all other parts of the world they're cool. I've never figured that out.
What are you going to run for tires and wheels?
 
Beautiful work and color! I dont see a problem with the dash, it looks great as well! Are you going with black interior??
 
Dartnut said:
Great job on the paintwork. The car looks really good that color.
I love the 4 door cars, a lot of people in North America hate them, but all other parts of the world they're cool. I've never figured that out.
What are you going to run for tires and wheels?
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I'm trying to get some 15in saturn finished or polished centerlines.
 
4spdragtop said:
Beautiful work and color! I dont see a problem with the dash, it looks great as well! Are you going with black interior??
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Original interior is red so I will be going with that, if it looks crappy I will change it down the track.
 
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