1965 gto convertible

[65protourgto]

Hey there, I have been dragging my feet on introducing my self on here. I am currently building a 1965 pontiac gto convertible.

I just thought I would come here because this crowd seems alittle bit more serious and laid back then lateral-g.net

[muthstryker]

welcome to the site! Looks like a nice project that motor looks awsome!

Im building (well its stopped for now) a 67 GTO and plan on doing an Art Morrison Max-G chassis, as well as minitubbing.

again welcome

[teamplex65]

I love the looks of that motor all raw like that. The silver is great looking. Keep the pics coming, we all love looking at them.

[dropit69]

wow nice looking project..and welcome

[Ralph LoGrasso]

Welcome to the site.

[CliffS]

Looking good, sweet engine! What fuel pump are you using for the 462?

[PT Goat]

Awesome project, I wish the Schwartz chassis was around when I started my '65. Glad to see anothe GTO on the board, and better yet, with Poncho power.

[GTOConno]

Welcome Aboard. Nice project. Awsome motor.

Conno

[gto65lvr]

Where is some pics of your setup? I am building my 65 gto convert right now and have the trunk floor out thinking about a schwartz chassis and mini tub lots of money but what the hell
I am building a 400 stroker with 6x 260cfm CNC SD heads with a P1SC procharger:pics2:

[65protourgto]

I will put some pics up for you to all enjoy

[65protourgto]

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[65protourgto]

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[65protourgto]

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[65protourgto]

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[65protourgto]

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[65protourgto]

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[65protourgto]

well I thought I would put up some pics of the motor when we built it. Mind you this is last year. We were using a solid lifter cam(256,262 @.050 640/660lift at the valve with a 110 lsa, victor junior, 850 demon, ported 72cc edelbrock performer rpm heads,swirl polished ferrea valves, comp bee hive springs,locks and retainers,crower 1.6 roller rockers, eagle H beam rods, eagle cast steel crank, cheap yet effective modified speed pro pistons, Clevite 77 bearings, Butler billet 4 bolt steel main caps, blue printed melling SD455 Oil pump, Milodon windage tray, canton road race pan with pick up, MSD mechanical advance distributor, ARP bolts on everything, Dougs number 567 headers and a Flow kooler water pump.
Its a 73 XA block 455 bored .030 over=462
I had fun remaching every part of the block,measuring every clearence, file fitting the rings, dishing the pistons.090, Deburing, chamfering all the gallies ,etc......
I removed all the flashing, and useless hunks of crap on the block.
The only thing that was reused was the block, two main caps (1,5),and oil filter housing.

that combo through down 619 hp and 677foot pounds of torque on the dyno

with some tweaking we got 629hp @6100 and 690foot pounds@ 3600.
this was done on a superflow 901 We pulled the brake at lower RPMs but it wouldnt hold.

Now I pulled off the manifold and put a BG tripower setup and ditched the solid lifter cam and pulled the oil restrictors. I put a comp cams XE294 cam in which is 250/256 @50 and 552 lift intanke and 568 exhaust with a 1.6 ratio rocker. The cam is also a 110 lsa we installed it advanced 2 degree's. we have yet to dyno the motor and se what it throws down. im guessing 565-600 hp and torque over 600 probaly.

[65protourgto]

quick question can everyone else see the pics of the car?

I hope you all enjoy my progress

[67SSDan]

Now that I've signed in to lateral-g I can see them just fine. You've got to have a session cookie with them before they display because of the way you've linked the pictures.

Cool looking project! Welcome to the site.

Dan

[65protourgto]

thats not good I need to fix that.

[SixSpeed454SS]

what happened to all the pics of the GTO? I'd like to see it.

Welcome

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

thats a REALLY nice start you got on that goat..

[SixSpeed454SS]

Now that I've signed in to lateral-g I can see them just fine. You've got to have a session cookie with them before they display because of the way you've linked the pictures.


Now that I read this very important post, I can see the pics.

Looks great!