Project: LONG HAUL - LONG ROOF

[Ben@SpeedTech]

Awesome! That engine should rock and make the car that much more fun!

Interesting, I ran into the same issue you had with the intake- I'm also doing an engine swap, my wagon's engine recently broke. I have a sbc engine that was in my street strip Nova but hasn't seen any action for 10+ years, so I decided to swap it into the wagon. It has World Products Sportsman II heads and a Victor Jr intake while the old wagon engine had GM 400 sbc heads and a Proform air gap dual plane. To help build low end better I put the dual plane on the Nova's motor, first cleaning and painting it nice, and then "glued" and bolted it down. That's when I realized that I could see into the intake ports just like yours. Ugh! I ended up having to put the single plane back on. I guess the wasted gaskets, new gasket cost and my time was a harsh reminder to test fit before assembling, lol!

Well the progress on your wagon is looking good, and it'll be fun to see how the extra power pans out. Your wagon has always been an inspiration to me and seeing pics of it everywhere helped push me to make mine better. I still hope meet up some day and do the battle of the wagons at an event. My wife has a mean brownie recipe so maybe I'll bring a basket of those and the car with the slower time has to give up the goodies, lol! I do like cookies, I'll take white chocolate macadamia nut please! jab jab ;)



Keep the progress moving and the pics coming...

[tommycomfort]

Awesome! That engine should rock and make the car that much more fun!

Interesting, I ran into the same issue you had with the intake- I'm also doing an engine swap, my wagon's engine recently broke. I have a sbc engine that was in my street strip Nova but hasn't seen any action for 10+ years, so I decided to swap it into the wagon. It has World Products Sportsman II heads and a Victor Jr intake while the old wagon engine had GM 400 sbc heads and a Proform air gap dual plane. To help build low end better I put the dual plane on the Nova's motor, first cleaning and painting it nice, and then "glued" and bolted it down. That's when I realized that I could see into the intake ports just like yours. Ugh! I ended up having to put the single plane back on. I guess the wasted gaskets, new gasket cost and my time was a harsh reminder to test fit before assembling, lol!

Well the progress on your wagon is looking good, and it'll be fun to see how the extra power pans out. Your wagon has always been an inspiration to me and seeing pics of it everywhere helped push me to make mine better. I still hope meet up some day and do the battle of the wagons at an event. My wife has a mean brownie recipe so maybe I'll bring a basket of those and the car with the slower time has to give up the goodies, lol! I do like cookies, I'll take white chocolate macadamia nut please! jab jab ;)

Keep the progress moving and the pics coming...

Thanks Ben! Sure glad we bought this wagon when we did because it seems like their values keep going up. Although, a couple of years ago a guy pulled into the car wash where we were cleaning it up and kindly offered us $1700 cash. Funny, he acted like he was really going out on a limb...

The head swap and intake deal has been a little frustrating but we know that's just "hot rodding" and it would be silly to get fired up about it. We also found that we needed special gaskets for the Chevrolet Performance intake that were .120 thick. I have a stack of other Fel-Pro gaskets on the shelf that didn't work. Live and learn!