Thread: 302 Stroker??
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09-28-2012 04:47 PM #46
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10-02-2012 06:41 AM #47
Pat, Jerry? Would either of you guys know which distributor gear to use with an X303 Ford Motorsport cam? I couldn't find the info on the oem site..
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10-02-2012 06:59 AM #48
Mike - you need a steel (best wearing), bronze or 'plastic' gear for the steel 'letter' camshaft. The cast iron gear will not survive. You also need the Ford Racing steel camshaft retainer instead of the OEM cast version and, preferably all ARP bolting. Then, of course, if a mech. fuel pump, you need a longer drive pin (I have 22 extras if you need one as they are unobtanium from Ford) and a one piece eccentric plus that ARP bolt. All this from my Book of Lessons Recently LearnedDave W
I am now gone from this forum for now - finally have pulled the plug
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10-02-2012 09:39 AM #49
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10-02-2012 11:11 AM #50
Dave W
I am now gone from this forum for now - finally have pulled the plug
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10-02-2012 03:35 PM #51
Thanks Dave! No sweat on the other "details" as the engine shop "should" / "better" have that covered. I was just looking on-line at distributors and it popped into my head that I may need to change the drive gear.
I had one of those "moments of vindication" yesterday.. I was second guessing myself in the decision to build a stroker since this motor was already all new. Well I went to the shop to check on progress yesterday and the machinest smiles at me and says "hey, ya gotta see this!" He shows me the conn.rods and 3 or 4 of them have a huge circular gouge in the bearing maybe 50 or 60 thous. deep! I looked at him and said what the _ _ _ _!... He shows me the crank and some of the journals have dents / burrs in them! We surmise that the kid that "overhauled" / assembled this motor had let the conn rod bolts ding up the journal and never cleaned up / polished those birdies! We also complained to each other as the shop that did the overbore laft a crappy finish and sadly the cylinders aren't straight! Not real terrible but, it should still be the same measurement top to bottom!
So when I left I felt REALLY GOOD that I made the right decision! Or maybe I got lucky for a change!
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10-02-2012 03:59 PM #52
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10-26-2012 07:56 PM #53
Well I got the engine back and "played" with it some tonite. I know that some "certain" folks feel that picture posting should be mandatory so I won't do anything to upset them!
Here's a couple of the short block.
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10-26-2012 08:00 PM #54
Here's a few more.
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10-26-2012 08:01 PM #55
What color are you going to paint it? Is this going in your hotrod or are you buying something else to put it in? Of course, answers to both of those questions will require more pictures!"It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out." - H.G. Wells
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10-26-2012 08:04 PM #56
and here's what it looks like at the end of today. Hey, IC2... empty your mailbox.. PM's can't through!
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10-26-2012 08:06 PM #57
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10-26-2012 08:07 PM #58
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10-26-2012 08:08 PM #59
That flat rocksKen Thomas
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10-26-2012 08:09 PM #60
Thanks Bill, It seems to be working better already. Nolan
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