• Engines are metal too ...

    From Snag@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 13 15:44:33 2021
    Looks like my near future metalworking is going to be building a
    motor for my truck . My son had it down in Memphis , an oil pressure
    sensor failed and it dumped all the oil , resulting in near-seizure and cylinder wall damage . It made it almost all the way home before it blew
    ... sounds like a piston blew it's top , but I won't know for sure until
    the heads are off . The scored cylinders I'm certain of , the bore scope
    shows that pretty clearly in the 5 cylinders I looked at .
    Ah what the hell , I've been wanting to build that motor - GM 305 "H"
    - so it's getting a stage 3 cam , headers , an aluminum intake (from a
    friend , he's not sure but I remember seeing an Edelbrock Torker in his
    piles of "stuff") and probably a bump from 8.3:1 to 9:1 compression .
    That along with changing out the current 2.73:1 rear axle gears for a
    set of 3.42's should really wake the old girl up !
    --
    Snag
    Let's Go Brandon !

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