New Guy swaping 383 and tko600

[Curley]

That sounds good! I never noticed any engine specs besides being a 383. Care to divuldge some info...



Doug

Well, I don't have the cam specs on the Isky, but its a Holley 4160 750 CFM dual feed vaccum secondary, RHS iron 220 runner 2.08/1.60 with 70cc chambers, Professional Products crosswinds intake, 1.5 aluminum roller rockers, flattop forged pistons and Thorley tri-y headers 1 5/8 primary to 2 1/2 collector to full 2 1/2 exhaust. It put out 357 rwhp and 420 rwtq through the tko600 and a stock 10 bolt with a posi on the dyno.

Man you guys have taken great care of that 68! I love the color! Do you happen to know what the color is? It looks like the sunset red metallic that we are putting on our 69. Wow.... that paint makes me speechless... 17 years old and still looks better than my 05 ranger's paint! Good luck with everything!

Thanks for the complements, it is actually a Toyota truck color from 1990. It was called
medium red metallic pearl.

Curley

[twosaturns]

nice setup, Curly. I was looking back through the thread, and I think your problem w/ your heater core is (I think) is because that's a 6 cyl core. is it possible your camaro is an inline 6 car originally? the 8 cyl core has them coming out in the middle or something.
I like your choice too of those Y headers, and the vaccum secondaries.

[Curley]

Your right the car was originally a six with a powerglide on the column, but I replaced the heater core already once with a small block one. The heater core that your are talking about is for a big block. That one blocks off the small block holes with some foam and then you need to cut new holes in the middle of the heater box. If and when this core takes a dump I'll probably go with the big block one.

[Curley]

Ever feel like once you get everything buttoned up something is gonna come bace to bite you in the ass. Well, it finally got me. Well, I fixed the problem with the heater core clearance because my $200 valve covers leaked! At first I thought the gaskets were not sealed, then maybe the breathers were no good. Two different sets of breathers, three sets of valve cover gaskets and I found it was the decorative finned piece bolted to the top of the valve cover.



It was starting to pour out and I finally got pissed and exchanged the covers. I picked up these instead, what do you guys think?





On a happy note now the hearter core is nowhere near the valve covers....

[twosaturns]

It was starting to pour out and I finally got pissed and exchanged the covers. I picked up these instead, what do you guys think?

sweeeeeet...

[BossaNova]

Sorry for the misfortune, but, I actually like your new valve covers better. Hope _they_ don't leak.