I just had to tell someone!
My neighbor (Mark) that owns a Polaris dealership here and is always finding deals and trades for RZR's.
He was showing me one he bought outright from some guy that was moving and selling most everything, the guy sold it for less than a third of it's value!!! He just wanted to get rid of a bunch of 'stuff'. Mark told me the guy said he had an 'old' Mopar engine in the back of his garage that he wanted to just get rid of. Mark wasn't sure of what it was, I got the guys number and called him and asked if he knew what it was, he said it was a 340... SOOooo...
I get his address and bust my *** over to his house! We had to move some stuff to get to it, couldn't tell what it was until we slid it out and I saw the side of the block. YES !!! It was a 340!!! COMPLETE, carb to pan! Date code was May of '69. I have been looking for a decent 340 builder for a good 8 months, and here is one in front of me just a few miles from the house. The guy told me it was from a Dart 340, that was wrecked/totaled. He bought it to do a 'future' car build, but never got to it! (NOTE: I live near Sedona AZ so I was guessing I would have to be going far and wide to find even a builder engine.) Anyway, I get the thing home put it on a stand and really start to check it out. Pull off the intake, No rust, perfectly clean. Then the heads, X heads, large valves all the numbers are matching, this thing has never been into. Being a '69 the comp has to be 10.5:1, and it is in perfect. I'm so pleased I almost wet myself!!!
I'm probably going to take it down check/clean everything and put it back together, most likely with a thicker head gasket to get the Comp down some. Oh, I guess I didn't mention, it had an Edelbrock intake with a holley on it and I also a new Weind dual quad TR with matched 450 Holleys.
I have NEVER been this lucky, ever. I kind of feel like I hit the Lottery!!!!
Anway, I just HAD to tell some one.
This will be going into my '71 Scamp.
Ken
RLTW
My neighbor (Mark) that owns a Polaris dealership here and is always finding deals and trades for RZR's.
He was showing me one he bought outright from some guy that was moving and selling most everything, the guy sold it for less than a third of it's value!!! He just wanted to get rid of a bunch of 'stuff'. Mark told me the guy said he had an 'old' Mopar engine in the back of his garage that he wanted to just get rid of. Mark wasn't sure of what it was, I got the guys number and called him and asked if he knew what it was, he said it was a 340... SOOooo...
I get his address and bust my *** over to his house! We had to move some stuff to get to it, couldn't tell what it was until we slid it out and I saw the side of the block. YES !!! It was a 340!!! COMPLETE, carb to pan! Date code was May of '69. I have been looking for a decent 340 builder for a good 8 months, and here is one in front of me just a few miles from the house. The guy told me it was from a Dart 340, that was wrecked/totaled. He bought it to do a 'future' car build, but never got to it! (NOTE: I live near Sedona AZ so I was guessing I would have to be going far and wide to find even a builder engine.) Anyway, I get the thing home put it on a stand and really start to check it out. Pull off the intake, No rust, perfectly clean. Then the heads, X heads, large valves all the numbers are matching, this thing has never been into. Being a '69 the comp has to be 10.5:1, and it is in perfect. I'm so pleased I almost wet myself!!!
I'm probably going to take it down check/clean everything and put it back together, most likely with a thicker head gasket to get the Comp down some. Oh, I guess I didn't mention, it had an Edelbrock intake with a holley on it and I also a new Weind dual quad TR with matched 450 Holleys.
I have NEVER been this lucky, ever. I kind of feel like I hit the Lottery!!!!
Anway, I just HAD to tell some one.
This will be going into my '71 Scamp.
Ken
RLTW
