Quote:
Originally Posted by BossHogg69
^^^ Ohhhhhh, I see ya - tryin' to be sneaky  packin big cubes in a stock-like sleeper package huh? The '400' sticker is a nice touch... Beautiful motor, and great attention to detail there!!! C'mon, now you have to share some specs on that motor and give us the 'deets' on that SICK speedo in your avatar!! |
The motor is actually nothing fancy. It's a 73 454 (.100 over) with a little bigger cam, heads, carb and intake from the original 402, flat top KB pistons. I wanted a stock engine but the 402 had a crack in it so I had to look for another block. Found this 454 which were supposed to be good, put on the heads, carb, intake, exhaust, oilpan from the 402. Engine smoked bad so I took it out and found a bad oilring. Measured it up and found out it was .40 over but needed a new bore. Ordered a .60 overbore and pistons. Machine shop did something wrong and bored the block to somewhere around .80 over. No pistons avaliable in that size so they had to take it up to .100 and by me new pistons. Thats why I have the big cube stock set up, sounds great and lot's of torque. I have been thinking of some upgrades but I still want the stock look.
The speedo is from a truck sold new here by GM of Sweden, they were equipped with kilometer speedo (option U18), 160 KPH same speed as 100 MPH. I have made a couple of those KPH numbers in sticky vinyl using the one in my truck as a template. But note the KPH speedo just have 9 markings while the MPH speedo have 11.