She’s done. In this article, we’ll cover crankshaft balancing, valvetrain and crankshaft assembly.
How do you like the plug wire routing? I’ll cover this in a later article installment. I’m considering having the water pump pulleys polished and chrome plated. By the way, the water pump/alternator belt pulley alignment is perfect. If the belt looks whacky [...]
Callies now offers coated main and rod bearings. The dry film lubricant applies in-house by Callies is especially beneficial at cold start-up and during periods of marginal lubrication. Tri-Metal XP bearings by King are now available in addition to all popular ACL and Clevite bearings.
Lunati, a firm with over forty years of crankshaft know-how, has become a leading distributor for Clevite® bearings. Clevite TriMetal bearings provide critical protection that bi-metal bearings do not. They enable foreign particles to become embedded in the soft surface layer of the bearing. This innovation often protects crankshaft journals from harmful foreign particles.
Because the [...]
Our build is done. See the end of this article for several tasty photos of the finished engine, followed by a complete list of the participating manufacturers.
FINAL ASSEMBLY OF OUR
NASTY LITTLE DART 427W
OUR ONE TRICK PONY IS DONE.
WE’RE READY FOR THE DYNO RUN.
Engine build, text and photos by Mike Mavrigian
INTAKE MANIFOLD
Since our Trick Flow heads feature [...]
Straight Talk About Oil Filters
Information provided courtesy of Purolator Filters
Let’s face it. While performance engines represent the most fun in our businesses, it’s the everyday engines we build that pay the rent for most of us. That’s just a fact of life. We can all put valve guides in small-block Chevy heads pretty much blindfolded, [...]
by Mike Mavrigian
Build/assembly and all photos by author
Our Lunati roller cam features 0.544″ valve lift at intake and 0.560″ at exhaust, with duration of 232 intake and 242 exhaust. Centerline is 108 intake and 116 exhaust.
CAMSHAFT AND TIMING
Dart thoughtfully provided anti-friction-coated cam bearings with their block. Each bearing is etched with a part number, and [...]
Introduction of the new Gold Performance Engine Bearings gives KING Engine Bearings, Inc. three complete race bearing families to meet almost any performance engine-building challenge.
Gold Performance main and connecting rod bearings were first unveiled at the Performance Racing Industry Show, December 10-12, 2009. They join KING’s existing Xtreme Performance and Pro Series as high performance [...]
KING Engine Bearings, Inc. announces Gold Performance Engine Bearings – a dramatic new advance in race engine bearings that reportedly leapfrogs all previous bearing designs. According to King, these new bearings feature vastly improved fatigue strength that allows them to tolerate pressures far greater than any other performance bearing available today.
The new main and connecting [...]
WE BALANCE AND BEGIN ASSEMBLY
text, photos and assembly by Mike Mavrigian
Crankshaft balancing was next on the agenda. Since the Diamond pistons are already weight-matched by Diamond, and the Scat connecting rods are weight-matched at both small and big ends, we didn’t need to perform any weight corrections to those components (I double-checked all piston, rod [...]
Tips for avoiding things that can bite you
By John Mummert
In disassembling Y-Block core engines, I have noted a number of common mistakes that are made during the assembly of Y-Blocks during rebuild. Take care to avoid these mistakes.
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