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- Vehicle Year
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Well I have officially began a V8 build for my Ranger.
Earlier this year I found a 1966 289 short block and took it into a machine shop for cleaning, inspection and necessary machining. It all checked out good but needed to be machined 0.030 over to clean up some rust in the cylinders. The crank had to go 0.010 under but that is fine for my intentions as a mild street engine.
I got a sealed power engine kit from Summit with flat top forged pistons. A Lunati cam, lifters, springs, caps, and keepers will replace the stock valvetrain except for the rockers and pushrods.
An Edlebrock F4B intake (Cobra intake) was found and will ride on top with a Holley 4160 series carb.
I picked up a set of 69 302 heads with 58cc chambers, they are in the shop now getting a 3 angle valve job and all the new parts installed.
A double sump oil pan was found on ebay and I need to modify it to accept an in the pan dip stick but I am waiting on some advance adapters headers to arrive to place the dip stick.
An MSD Pro-Billet distributor with a pertronix module will send the power to the sparkplugs.
I am also going to run a noisy timing gear set not a chain. Had to modify the front cover to fit the gears.
The remainder of the parts will be pretty much standard.
Still need to locate all of the accessory brackets (alternator, power steering, a/c), a transmission (C-4 or C-6), torque converter, drive shaft, and all of the small stuff. So there is a lot to do yet and for me to figure out as I go along. So I am hoping this awesome "family" here at TRS can help out along the way as I run into road-blocks.
Here are a few pics of the progress so far:
What I brought home:
Back from the machine shop:
New pistons and engine kit:
Crank and pistons installed:
Block painted:
Heads and Intake:
So that is the introduction . . . I will post more as I go along especially my questions for my year model and the particular swap I am doing.
Earlier this year I found a 1966 289 short block and took it into a machine shop for cleaning, inspection and necessary machining. It all checked out good but needed to be machined 0.030 over to clean up some rust in the cylinders. The crank had to go 0.010 under but that is fine for my intentions as a mild street engine.
I got a sealed power engine kit from Summit with flat top forged pistons. A Lunati cam, lifters, springs, caps, and keepers will replace the stock valvetrain except for the rockers and pushrods.
An Edlebrock F4B intake (Cobra intake) was found and will ride on top with a Holley 4160 series carb.
I picked up a set of 69 302 heads with 58cc chambers, they are in the shop now getting a 3 angle valve job and all the new parts installed.
A double sump oil pan was found on ebay and I need to modify it to accept an in the pan dip stick but I am waiting on some advance adapters headers to arrive to place the dip stick.
An MSD Pro-Billet distributor with a pertronix module will send the power to the sparkplugs.
I am also going to run a noisy timing gear set not a chain. Had to modify the front cover to fit the gears.
The remainder of the parts will be pretty much standard.
Still need to locate all of the accessory brackets (alternator, power steering, a/c), a transmission (C-4 or C-6), torque converter, drive shaft, and all of the small stuff. So there is a lot to do yet and for me to figure out as I go along. So I am hoping this awesome "family" here at TRS can help out along the way as I run into road-blocks.
Here are a few pics of the progress so far:
What I brought home:
Back from the machine shop:
New pistons and engine kit:
Crank and pistons installed:
Block painted:
Heads and Intake:
So that is the introduction . . . I will post more as I go along especially my questions for my year model and the particular swap I am doing.
