New to the forum with a Chevy Small Block
Hello from Louisiana! My name is Ethan and I'm 19 and am just starting out on the mechanic scene. I am enlisting in the Navy soon to work on the marine diesel engines aboard support craft and wanted to get some more hands on experience working on engines before going in. It all started when my great uncle Doug passed away. After the funeral, we had to start the process of clearing the estate and figure out what to do with the property. One day my mom came back from the house with chests and chests loaded with tools. Later that year, Doug's dad (my great grandfather) gave me his 1991 F-150. I started replacing parts on it as the worn parts started to break down and have even entered it into my first car show. However I wanted to get my hands dirty and do a full rebuild on a more simple and better engine. An old friend of my parents called up and said he had a Chevy 350 sitting around that he was about to scrap so the guy gave it to me. It was really better than Christmas for me and since then I've torn it down, repainted, honed, and am about to rebuild it. One day I hope to put it into a Camaro or some other classic body. (I am particularly fond of El Caminos as well.) I love older cars and really learning everything about how they were made and the differences that made them unique. To quote Adam Savage, "I always love the experience of walking through a path already trodden by engineers of the past. It gives me a view of the world through their eyes and that widens my understanding of the world". When I see a car I don't see metal or bolts, I see a story. Now to the nitty gritty details...
Engine casting number: 3970010 K10 04 TMM
1974 truck engine
4 bolt main
Cylinders bored out .030 over
Cast iron crankshaft
Pistons were flat top (except for one dish piston whish I replaced for a flat top)
took off the original Chevy orange and replaced it with Duplicolor DE1644 Racing Green "Hunter" paint and brass freeze plugs.
Cylinder heads (came with engine)
Refurbished 1969 small double hump heads
Casting number:3927186
63cc chamber and machined for bigger springs
Lunati 06103 camshaft (came with engine)
lobe separation 112 degrees
valve lift:.420 intake and .442 exhaust
Also included was a high-volume oil pump and Windage Tray
The oil pan was separate and turned out to have holes in it.
I found a guy on Craigslist selling parts from an engine that were almost a steal
because of how little he was asking for them. (the poor kid didn't even know what a carburetor was :LOL: )
Edelbrock 1405 600 cfm carburetor - 50$ (spent 40$ on a rebuild kit and needs new accelerator pump and some cleaning)
Edelbrock dual plane Performer intake manifold - 50$
Edelbrock air cleaner - 10$
Alternator - 10$ (come on it was 10 bucks I couldn't resist :D )
Note: the engine came only with the cam, crank, pistons and tray installed. So what I need to order is a kit containing all the bolts I'll need for assembly.
This is all that I have so far and I still have a long way to go before I'll hear this beauty roar to life. I need a distributor, headers, brackets, water pump and all that other fun stuff.
I welcome all comments and suggestions from you guys who are more experienced at this than I am. All advice will be much appreciated. Any ballpark idea of horsepower and torque I might expect?