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Well guy's, Turbo engine just hit a brick wall. Machine shop just sent the head back as being cracked, and shure, yup it's cracked, they fluxed it, minor but it's there. called DVAP where I bought it, they don't have another, and because it's past 30 days, the only thing they will do is refund after the head is received by them. I'm looking around for another. Memory lane might have 1 but I don't really know. if I have to, I can wait for the new aluminum head to get released late april, and pay the $1,500 for it, and another $400 for the intake needed, that's another 50 HP gaurenteed ontop of 397 HP but I really don't have the funding for that

Takes big pockets to build trick engines....... You can either save up and get a good head, or settle for something less. I hope the actual engine is close to the virtual numbers you come up with....They are usually quite optimistic....

well, I ordered 1 from Memory Lane just now. $125+ shipping and I'm having them flux it b4 it's sent, to save me money as if it's cracked, they'll send me a new 1, after I send the old 1 back.

for right now, I'll put this head on, then if I get funding, I'll upgrade to the aluminum head, later on

oh yeah, now the motor has paint, but the colors gonna change. I tried laying white down to make the yellow lay out better, but stuff showed thru the white, so I sprayed silver, to get a uniform color, so it's silver now, teacher likes it, I don't

well, motor's black now, turbo piping will be yellow, hot side exhaust, silver. ready to go in car w/o head. no time for engine compt painting, but I'll pull the engine out when I repaint the car, and do it all white.

Matt sounds good and your getting there. Bummer on the bad head. I'm sure even that new aluminum might/will have some issues as most of the new heads out there. FWIW a friend of my sons has a bunch of 6cly parts and I think a few extra heads. I see your in NY. How close to lower CT are ya? If he has anything good I'll let you know. They are free. We are rebuilding the 6 in his 66 stang this spring. I'll get the casting numbers and dates off them if yer interested.

G.

Originally Posted by FFR428

Matt sounds good and your getting there. Bummer on the bad head. I'm sure even that new aluminum might/will have some issues as most of the new heads out there. FWIW a friend of my sons has a bunch of 6cly parts and I think a few extra heads. I see your in NY. How close to lower CT are ya? If he has anything good I'll let you know. They are free. We are rebuilding the 6 in his 66 stang this spring. I'll get the casting numbers and dates off them if yer interested.

G.

yeah, if he's got any heads D7 casting up or the best a EO casting head ( biggest valves/ ports would just need to create an EGR block off ), I'm not that far from CT.

pulled the car in ( almost hit a Honda, nice suprise, Falcon has no brakes, pedal goes to the floor ), tried to drop the engine in today, but some complications with allignment held me up, so ended up just pulling it back out. figure it out after spring break.

yeah it can be tough to get those studs to drop in the holes...... it just takes a little bit of prying and pushing and pulling...... you might want to take the tranny out and connect it, and then pull the hood and grill to make it easier to drop it all in at once....

na, that alligned up fine, engine was actully in, mated up, but... the shield that goes between the block and the bellhousing, dosn't seem to fit right anymore. 1 bolt hole, seems to be just a bit off so metal covers up just a bit of the bolt hole, prolly just going to clearence it with a dremel, it's the only way it fits, so it's gotta be right.

i've had to do that plenty of times, those things just seem to warp a little bit over the years, i've had them bad enough that i cut my own out of 3/32" aluminum sheet metal

I'll take a look at what he has and let ya know.

Originally Posted by FFR428

I'll take a look at what he has and let ya know.

thanks. got to get this thing togther, time is getting tight, june 15th is my last day to have it in the shop.

I'll take a ride this week and see. It's just across town.