Mopar R3 Block

[dennis schneider]

Welcome aboard Dennis!

What did you do for pistons with the short 9.2 deck?

Custom diamond pistons

 

[rumblefish360]

Custom diamond pistons

Thanks. I figured I’d be going down that “Custom” route.
Once the block is blue printed as to know for sure… then it can be done.

 

[branded209]

Timing covers are readily available from Kent Ritter and I believe they are 175 bucks as I have purchased 3 from him but if anyone is needing one it would be best to get a price from him directly, also I guarantee that he would have an intake for it as well although I have never purchased one from him but his parts inventory is beyond massive.

Do you have Kent and the Brett guys numbers, I have an r3 and not all the parts

 

[Oldmanmopar]

I had a nice 9.56 deck X block. The machine shop at that time cut the deck to 9. . His Idea was to remove my o-ring grooves in the block. For what reason? Who knows. Due to a 4 inch stroke He ended up Having to cut my new crank to small block chevy journal size and using Chevy rods with small pin size to stay under the ring groves. Nothing I took there was used on my engine with my knowledge by Ryan Johnson at Shadydell machine.

What a cluster **** it turned into. After said and done it went 14 pulls on a dyno and self destructed. There was not one usable piece on it to reuse on a 956 deck engine not even the intake. I will never go down that road again. To costly and if something goes wrong you throw it all away unless you start looking for all those uncommon parts again.

 

[NC Engine Builder]

I had a nice 9.56 deck X block. The machine shop at that time cut the deck to 9. . His Idea was to remove my o-ring grooves in the block. For what reason? Who knows. Due to a 4 inch stroke He ended up Having to cut my new crank to small block chevy journal size and using Chevy rods with small pin size to stay under the ring groves. Nothing I took there was used on my engine with my knowledge by Ryan Johnson at Shadydell machine.

What a cluster **** it turned into. After said and done it went 14 pulls on a dyno and self destructed. There was not one usable piece on it to reuse on a 956 deck engine not even the intake. I will never go down that road again. To costly and if something goes wrong you throw it all away unless you start looking for all those uncommon parts again.

I remember that. What a fiasco that was! Sorry you got the short end of that deal

 

[usp4u]

Do you have Kent and the Brett guys numbers, I have an r3 and not all the parYS

I'll send you a PM

 

[branded209]

I remember that. What a fiasco that was! Sorry you got the short end of that deal

I had a nice 9.56 deck X block. The machine shop at that time cut the deck to 9. . His Idea was to remove my o-ring grooves in the block. For what reason? Who knows. Due to a 4 inch stroke He ended up Having to cut my new crank to small block chevy journal size and using Chevy rods with small pin size to stay under the ring groves. Nothing I took there was used on my engine with my knowledge by Ryan Johnson at Shadydell machine.

What a cluster **** it turned into. After said and done it went 14 pulls on a dyno and self destructed. There was not one usable piece on it to reuse on a 956 deck engine not even the intake. I will never go down that road again. To costly and if something goes wrong you throw it all away unless you start looking for all those uncommon parts again.

This is the kind of thing I'm trying to avoid. I told the shop I went with what the block was an r3 and wouldnt use normal cam and he built a bunch of stuff for a normal 340 block and it won't work.

 

[NC Engine Builder]

This is the kind of thing I'm trying to avoid. I told the shop I went with what the block was an r3 and wouldnt use normal cam and he built a bunch of stuff for a normal 340 block and it won't work.

Sounds like you found a incompetent shop.