Thread: My first short block done! Another Y for the road.

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No I'm not 17, but 57 (late starter). After having two motors rebuilt for me, and having torn down 5 or 6, this is the first one personnally assembled and machined to my specs. So this is what you guys have been having fun with all these years !
As you guess it is a Y, 292 bored .060, deck milled for pistons .004 in the hole, very mild Isky cam 260 duration and .448 lift, balanced crank/pistons/rods, mains line honed, double roller timing chain, degreed cam for 3 1/2 degree advance. The most I could get with static compression was 8.95:1 without going to much more expensive components. Forget exactly but the dynamic compression ends up at like 8.1:1.
This motor should be a huge improvement. The 292 in now has 7.2:1 compression thanks to a machine shop that installed some 312 rods.
The next big excitement will be firing it up, but that wont be until winter.
The front timing cover will be replaced with the aluminum unit now in use, and the damper needs to have some timing marks made and painted.