gotta yank the big block

talked to Racefab yesterday, he's gunna go through it for me..

drove the coupe around for an hour or so yesterday and it got a little warmer then usual,
just over two hundred degrees
and the the oil pressure dropped scary low,
under five psi at an idle.

When I start it it burps a big blue cloud out one side..

it's my own damn fault, I used the regular type intake gasket (cause I had a pair) when I swapped to the cross ram and lost the water seal, dumping a bunch of coolant into the crank case
and drove it around till milkshake started coming out one of the breathers

put the right gaskets in for aluminum intake to aluminum heads and changed the oil a couple times,,

but the damage had been done.

hoping to get it all back together for the Nasty Drags mid July

moral of the story? use the right gaskets and take a look at the dip stick before you go driving around after a swap like this

Paul

 

Damn, Paul, that's a shame. I'll bet that's just what you need with everything else you've got going on. Are you going to continue with the body and paint on the coupe while the engine is in surgery or spend the time on the modified?

Frank

 

Damn, Paul, I'll bet that's just what you needed with everything else you've got going on. Are you going to spend the down time on the body work and paint on the coupe or work on the modified?


Frank

 

Damn, Paul, I'll bet that's just what you needed with everything else you've got going on. Are you going to spend the down time on the body work and paint on the coupe or work on the modified?


Frank

 

Boy!!! I don't know how that happened. Would you like me to repeat that one more time?

Frank

 

hahaha, rub salt in my wounds will ya

Paul

 

Gese, tough break, hope things work out alright!

Greg

 

Aw, you'll have so much fun with that bad ass little modified you'll hardly miss the coupe while Racefab works his magic on your Rat...it'll be back on the road before ya know it!

 

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Good now put a big block MOPAR in it,hehehehehehe. Sorry I shouldn't be so cruel. sorry to hear about that, good luck in getting it back together. later plmczy

 

or is this just a secret ploy to elude all of you to think paul broke the big block while in relatity its getting bored and stroked right on schedule to blow all your doors off at the drags??

good luck either way

 

As it turns out, there is hardly a person on this board that hasn't done something similar. An important reminder about attention to details........ thanks, and hope you get it squared away soon.

 

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anybody local got a 392 and torqueflite of equal price and caliber they want to trade?

got close to nine grand all together in this motor and trans

 

This is probably a stupid question, but what are the correct gaskets to use between aluminum heads and intake?

That's a great looking Big Block by the way...

 

there's a few different brands that make a gasket style I've had excellent results with, they have a thin bead of sealer around all the ports and water passage openings in the gasket, the number that comes to mind for this setup in the MrGasket brand is a 121..I think.. one the biggest rectangle ports they make for the old style Chevy heads.

the one that failed was a plain gray gasket that I sprayed with a high tack sealer both sides, I also painted the head and intake surfaces with high tack from a can.

live and learn..

Paul