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I dropped off the last of the parts today. The block has been honed and they were checking the bearing clearances. Hopefully it starts assembly soon.

Last load of parts ready to go to the machine shop tomorrow.

Thanks Don. I have that blocked gasket already prepped and painted at the machine shop.

I got the manifold cleaned up today and I figured I might as well port match it while I was at it. Then I gave it a coat of stealth paint.

Here is a picture of an early pushrod. Notice it is only tapered on the lifter end.

I ran into this with my 66 Charger. The 66 and earlier pushrods have a tapered end and so the seat in the lifter is smaller. If you use later model pushrods, you can use the later model lifters.

Just a plug for Tom Hand's book. He lists all of the serial numbers in an easy to read chart.

The intake manifold arrived today, thanks to Don Frelier. A little clean up and it will be good to go.

This is the catalytic converter hose I used from summit's website. It is just high temperature hose, and possibly overkill, however, I ran that set up in a big block A body for years without melting another cable.

I ran one and ended up going through a couple of cables. I ended up buying green catalytic converter hose to slide over it and then covered that with DEI heat shield. I also used a bracket on the transmission housing to keep it away from the header.

Block is set up in the honing tank.

I stopped by the machine shop and the heads are back together. Baby steps.

I pulled the totes down from my storage to see what I had in stock. I found all of my new ignition stuff, and this old set of valve covers. The chrome is not that good, but they will be fine for dynoing the engine.

Yes, he came highly recommended by a good friend of mine who had him do a converter for his 68 Dart. He was happy with the way it drove. I am not sure at this point if i will be driving this one this season.

The converter just got dropped off. When I spoke to him on Monday I told him I didn't need a full 2500 stall and was more concerned that there wouldn't be any slippage on the highway. I told him that I cruise at 2300 at 60 mph. I guess he listened :thumbsup:

I got a call today that my converter is finished. I only dropped it off Monday morning. They are delivering it to me at work tomorrow. That is what I call service!

Yes, both should be the same Hawk. Both were pretty flat to start to be honest. We took about .015 off the block to get it to zero deck, so I asked them to skim the heads .005 so it would make up for the .020 thicker gasket.

The heads have had the valve job done and the valves have been lapped in and everything is looking good. They were just surfacing the second head when I got there. The first head was finished and they ended up taking about 5 thou off of it, so by my calculation it should be down to 88 cc's...

It looks like Street Demons.

Sorry, my buddy kept the original trans that was attached to the 73 400. This converter came out of a 78 400 transmission according to the transmission number. It also had a single balance weight which was another late model change. You can see the green low stall sticker in this picture too.