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Old 04-28-2024, 04:54 PM
66sprint6 66sprint6 is offline
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Default Taming the tiger. Performance motor to street motor

With the warmer weather lately, I'm again exploring my options for taking this motor and toning it down because it's a freaking ridiculous engine for our cream puff LeMans. Importantly, we were not aware of the challenges presented when attempting to install an engine with round port heads into a '67 chassis.
Here's what happened:
-We were dying for an engine to put into the LeMans. The one that came in the car we affectionately called "Ol Lumpy".
-We had an aquaintance that had this motor. It was in his '69 GTO and we heard it run. We knew that he had spent some serious money having a shop build him this engine.
-We bought it for about US3000.00.
-I found out shortly after that screwing around with the exhaust to make it happen in the '67 engine bay is just not worth it. Do-able, yes. But... Plus, we needed a more pedestrian engine anyway.
-Eventually, I decided to just sell it. But another challenge: It's a 557 block. Not much interest. So i figured screw it, just keep it.
I'll just drop some pics here, and then I'll add some details about the short block, all the specs, etc.
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