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 [...]
For those builders who may be bored with chrome, Edelbrock Signature Series engine accessories are now available in a very cool black finish. Edelbrock Signature Series accessories have long been a staple under the hood of hot rods, muscle cars and trucks and are now available in a black powder coated finish. These [...]
ROCKIN’ MOPAR CLASSICS Rat rodders, hot rodders, and purists alike will be challenged to resist Edelbrock’s latest editions to their timeless classic finned valve covers; Mopar owners now have three engine options and two different finishes to choose from. Manufactured of heavy gauge, sand-cast aluminum, these are not the cheap knock-offs common in today’s market; [...]
FLATHEAD FEVER Edelbrock has released two new Flathead Ford cylinder heads. P/N 1116 is designed with a raised roof combustion chamber for 1949-53 8BA engines, CNC-machined 74 cc chamber volume (for reduced compression for supercharged applications or for those who wish to run low octane fuel in naturally aspirated engines). P/N 1126 was designed with [...]
THE BOMB IS BACK Forty years after its debut, the Cherry Bomb line of mufflers is back with a vengeance, including a wide array of street and race thunder wonders. One of the new releases, and a blast from the past, is the oh-so-famous and oh-so-Friday-night-cruising tubular glasspack. The Cherry Bomb Glasspack, the original high-performance [...]
Our initial distributor offered a very neat low profile, but the large diameter of the head made installation impossible due to a lack of intake plenum clearance, so I switched out to a smaller-diameter-head MSD. The MSD Pro-Billet distributor (P/N 85501) provided the intake manifold plenum clearance that we needed. Our MSD distributor features a [...]
VALVE COVERS The 1/4-inch x 20 x 3.5-inch socket head cap screws supplied with the Moroso valve covers are fine, and function perfectly. But, being the anal dolt that I am, I wanted to dress things up a bit more. I installed stainless-steel 1/4-inch x 20 x 4-inch studs into the heads (purchased from McMaster-Carr [...]
WATER PUMP Installing the Meziere Enterprises electric water pump P/N wp300 was a breeze. With gaskets lightly coated with UltraCopper RTV, I snugged the four ARP 3/8″ x 16 x 1.250″ stainless bolts to a specified value of 25 ft-lbs (Meziere supplies socket head cap screws, but I opted for the ARP polished stainless just [...]
Dart 11-Degree Big Chief Cylinder Head Specs P/N………………………18500000 Material…………………355T6 aluminum alloy Comb. Chambers……….56cc (70cc also available) Intake valve dia…………2.470″ Intake port dim. …………1.815″ x 2.725″ w/3/4″ radius Intake port volume………FP CNC – 497cc Intake port location……..Raised 1.500″ spread ports Exhaust valve dia………1.800″ Exhaust port volume……185cc Exhaust port dim………..2.020″w x 1.780″h Exhaust port location……angled & raised [...]
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