The new pistons came in last Thursday so I was able to get them pressed on and six installed before Cade came over today. The new pistons were .005 taller than advertised and running the numbers with the new pistons compression comes out to just a bit over 8.75:1 which I’m happy with.

I left the last 2 pistons to do today with Cade and we checked ring gap and bearing clearance, installed the rings and got the last 2 holes filled. I was a little amused at Cades reaction when he found out that you had to get your hands oily and greasy lubing the cylinder walls, pistons and putting assembly lube on the bearings.

I showed him how to torque the bearings in steps using both the click-over torque wrench and the old beam wrench. I even turned him loose to check over the rod bolts one last time with the click-over. He tried to check the mains but as expected he’s got to add a little more muscle for that.




After a lot of looking I finally settled on a cam. I picked one of the Summit house brand split lift/duration ones with .421/.444 lift and 278/288 duration. The 305 guys seem to have good luck with it so I figured I’d give it a shot. The numbers are based on the stock 1.5 rockers I’ll be using and I figure if I want to try more cam I can always switch the rockers out for 1.6 units.

The Cam and the lifters should be here Tuesday so with any luck Cade and I might be able to pretty much button this up the next time he comes over.


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