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New bullet for the "Brick"

Update -
I found some metal in the pan that looked like chrome flakes, after a bunch of investigating I discovered that the #3 cam bearing had failed and was coming apart. Looks like I damaged it somehow when I installed it. SO after tearing the engine down and inspecting everything I've had the block honed and will be assembling the engine again. I got very lucky, no damge to the cam or block - I will be making sure I dont screw it up a secong time.

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Making a new valley cover plate, I'm too cheap to buy one so I found some scrap aluminum sheet and went to work -

Cut it out -

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Drill holes, sand old paint and crud off of it -

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Painted -

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Since my custom PanEvac system was a bust I will be going with different valve covers with the breathers in them. I settled on these Summit valve covers, they were pretty cheap and are polished. They came with holes in them, I used one hole for the oil fill and enlarged the other for the breather grommet then added another hole for the other breather.

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I also fabbed up some baffles to go under the breathers and welded them in -

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In a further effort to make this engine easier to work on/install in the car I wanted to get away from the stock type oil dipstick. Mainly because of how it bolts to the mount bracket bolts. I found this Locking dipstick to use. I think it is a Mr Gasket unit. Here it is between the old one and some brake line i am using for a pattern to bend it.

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It was a real pain in the *** to bend - it will now come straight up from the pan rail and bend towards the front of the engine and be mounted to the front header bolt.

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You have to drill and tap the hole in the block for a conpression fitting -

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Engine assembly begins,washing the block in my front yard. I bet my neighbors love me!

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I needed to move the 02 bung in the header (both sides) because of torsion bar interference. Nice welding huh?

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Going back into the car - all of the modifications I made to the mounts and K-member did make installation easier.

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It only took a year to get it back to the track (MATS) - made 2 1/8th mile shakedown passes to make sure everything was right. Third pass I went for it - 9.98@ 132, 1.39 60ft. I was very gratified to say the least. It went a best of 9.94 @ 133 with a 1.37 60ft and that was on 7 year old worn out slicks! It was a good weekend, did a little tuning (carb jetting) and had to do a front end alignment at the track! I won first round in my class then it got rained delayed so we packed it in and went home. The car will probably go 9.70's at sea level - not too shabby for a 3650lb car on 9 inch slicks.

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