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Pontiac - Street
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New motor tuning mystery
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Have you bothered to ask this community for spare...
Have you bothered to ask this community for spare weights and cams?
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Pontiac - Street
06-03-2024, 04:56 PM
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Catastrophic Engine Failure
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I have only spun one rod bearing in life back in...
I have only spun one rod bearing in life back in 1982 sounded like an elf in my oil pan with a 5lb sledge hammer hitting the block hard every time a certain cylinder fired, the tempo increases fast...
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Pontiac - Street
06-03-2024, 04:25 PM
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Cracks in lifter valley area? Opinions
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one time long ago i had some funky soft cam...
one time long ago i had some funky soft cam bearings had to pry the cam out,.... levered a big screwdriver in that back area against a cam lobe to push the cam foreward and out to replace the cam...
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Pontiac - Street
06-03-2024, 03:54 PM
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Catastrophic Engine Failure
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If i were to go street roller i would go tight...
If i were to go street roller i would go tight side of specs on crank bearings so thinner oil can be used with direct roller lifter axle oiling along with the HP. SD. oil pump elevated idle RPM ......
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Pontiac - Street
06-03-2024, 09:11 AM
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New motor tuning mystery
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Some HEI cams are more resistant to over...
Some HEI cams are more resistant to over advancing than others,
My own testing in a garage with only a timing light, some cams would reach full desired advance stop advancing for about 1500 rpm...
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Pontiac - Street
06-02-2024, 05:05 PM
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Motor oil weight you run?
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This
This
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Pontiac - Street
06-02-2024, 02:38 PM
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Thicker head gasket question
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1969-70 350 80-85cc heads would be much better...
1969-70 350 80-85cc heads would be much better than 94cc on that engine.
as far as overheating water pump divider plate distance and seals in that area.
not knowing what you have now perhaps a...
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Pontiac - Street
06-02-2024, 06:42 AM
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New motor tuning mystery
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Sorry i read over the sentence to fast where you...
Sorry i read over the sentence to fast where you implied non functioning vac adv.
dist weights and cam number? is the cam installed numbers up or down? everything moving freely?
your carb...
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Pontiac - Street
06-01-2024, 07:34 PM
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New motor tuning mystery
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if you had vac adv plugged in when you checked...
if you had vac adv plugged in when you checked for the 37 thats your problem .
the whole purpose of springs out timing check is to set total timing with full mech adv only and you dont have to rev...
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Pontiac - Street
06-01-2024, 09:56 AM
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Read my plugs
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Idle quality is usually near one of the first...
Idle quality is usually near one of the first things that is worked out after cam break in
its natural to float back and forth between initial and total timing idle speed and mixture until...
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Pontiac - Street
05-30-2024, 05:07 PM
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Timing cover crank seal issue
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I have 6 of those types of seals never thought...
I have 6 of those types of seals never thought about it before but i remember the rubber being alot thinner like a heavy paint vrs a thicker rubber like you have
its a hammer in tight fit i can...
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Pontiac - Race
05-29-2024, 10:58 PM
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First Time on New Build
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If 60's are sweet driver claims lazy top end, ...
If 60's are sweet driver claims lazy top end, could be fuel delivery as well, no mention of the components there
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Pontiac - Street
05-28-2024, 04:14 PM
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455 busted: 60919 cam, Rhodes Lifters, bent push rods
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strong valve springs and weak stock pushrods? ...
strong valve springs and weak stock pushrods?
the only thing worse that stock Pontiac connecting rods are the pushrods they are like a fuse in a electrical circuit slightest hint of abuse and...
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Pontiac - Street
05-26-2024, 09:47 AM
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Air filter sucking in???
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Technically a plenum is the area beneath the carb...
Technically a plenum is the area beneath the carb and before the intake runners, But any common area consisting of multiple flow paths that is soon to be directed into a certain dedicated path is...
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Pontiac - Street
05-26-2024, 08:36 AM
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TH400 transmission help
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The TH400 vacuum sensing / operated light...
The TH400 vacuum sensing / operated light throttle upshifts with the stock modulator are pretty care free but after your built and driving and want a different experience you can opt for the...
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Pontiac - Street
05-25-2024, 01:59 PM
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Air filter sucking in???
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don't recomend blowing the K&N filter or use high...
don't recomend blowing the K&N filter or use high pressure water, can poke holes in the gauze reducing filtering allowing dirt to pass...
all this movement may be because the open top element...
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Pontiac - Street
05-23-2024, 01:58 PM
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Different cam? Chain? Car should be faster
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I knew there was something wrong outside the list...
I knew there was something wrong outside the list of parts
a 455 with a little bit of a cam in it good compression and 3.73 gears should bring a smile at some point..
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Pontiac - Street
05-23-2024, 01:44 PM
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Safe level of horsepower in a 1977 XA 400 block build?
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Every 557 engine i tore down was clapped out in...
Every 557 engine i tore down was clapped out in stock form, at first i never paid attention to block numbers after 1970 until i keept finding only 557 blocks then it clicked, i keept seeing a...
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Tri-Power Tech
05-20-2024, 08:17 AM
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center carb flooding
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I forget if there is a tab on the float to...
I forget if there is a tab on the float to control drop distance,
perhaps after sitting for a period the bowl dries up float drops down far enough to cock something and stick then after running...
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Pontiac - Street
05-17-2024, 02:20 PM
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10 year old new oil????
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Oil isn't born with additives thats why they are...
Oil isn't born with additives thats why they are added,
Be interesting to know the circumstances in which these additives are added IE the environment in which this magic takes place. Is this...
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Pontiac - Street
05-13-2024, 12:27 PM
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Engine Oil Additives
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The invisible boogie man, Can't be proven or...
The invisible boogie man, Can't be proven or disproven.
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Pontiac - Street
05-10-2024, 05:20 PM
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Recipe for a reliable 400 driver
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For building a good cruiser engine you want low...
For building a good cruiser engine you want low end torque.
Compression builds torque at every rotation of the crank if it was my goal to build a cruiser 400 i would use 85ish CC 1970 and prior...
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70-73 Firebird & TA TECH
05-09-2024, 07:26 PM
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1970 TA Van Nuys car.
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Core support ?
Core support ?
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70-73 Firebird & TA TECH
05-09-2024, 04:02 PM
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1970 TA Van Nuys car.
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I don't believe there is charcoal in the rear...
I don't believe there is charcoal in the rear canister i believe its a over engineered attempt at vapor liquid seperation so only vapors make it to the typical round canister under the hood
Is...
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Pontiac - Street
05-04-2024, 01:51 PM
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.005 or .010 shorter cam chain needed?
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It is hard to get good work on blocks, I one...
It is hard to get good work on blocks,
I one time in about 1982 built a 1970 XF 455 into a 440 got the block align honed just to make sure it was perfect, somehow burnt a rear main bearing...
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