Did some cleaning before the fireworks show.

Killercanary said:

+1

Everytime I see a car with an engine bay that is painted a different color than the body I think the car was wrecked or the owner was too lazy to paint it properly.



Kind of off topic... why are you getting a new engine? Your sig says that you already have a 331. Did something happen with it? A guy I know has been waiting for what seems like a year on his shortblock to be done by the same place you are using. I hope you don't have to wait as long as he has.

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RIO5.0 said:

Welcome to SN....

Flat Black??? I would think that would be a pain to keep clean???
Drop me a PM....I have a nice 28oz Romac I'd part with... think I have a flywheel also... Building a 331 myself and have extra parts hanging around...

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Killercanary said:

Thanks! As for power, I'm not sure what the current combo is making. It made 380rwhp/380rwtq with the following:

-dart block 8.9:1 compression 331
-scat 4340 forged crank internally balanced
-scat 4340 H beam rods with ARP 2000 rod bolts
-SRP forged pistons
-pioneer SFI balancer
-fidanza aluminum flywheel
-75mm fox style accufab TB
-Holley systemax II intake, lower ported by TMOSS
-AFR 165 60cc pedestal mount heads
-1.6 RR's
-FTI cam from my old stock 302 shortblock
-ASP pulleys
-1-3/4 headers with 3" primaries
-3" into 2.5" Dr. Gas X pipe
-2.5" cat back with dynomax welded ultraflow mufflers
-promotion kustom clutch
-TKO trans
-alum. driveshaft
-4.10 gears
-AEM stand alone

I swapped the AFR 165's for a set of AFR 185 comp heads with a 58cc chamber which bumped my compression to 9.0:1. I also added a set of probe shaft mount rockers. With this combo I ran a 11.50 at 121mph. I plan to dyno it sometime this summer just to see what it is making.

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inphiniti said:

jromeo, heres a pic of my engine bay this past weekend... i was on somewhat of a budget and wanted to clean the bay up for the time being... i wanted to cover up some light rusting, plus i wanted the somewhat old school look going on... wish i couldve done what Adam did to his engien bay, but again i was on a budget and its my DD

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Zero Signal said:

I don't know, you have matching gloves, so might as well go for a matching engine bay A freshly painted yellow engine bay would be the hotness.

Oh, and Paul's setup is freakish. It's a nice goal to shoot for, but I'm still stumped as to how he gets that kind of performance. I'll be happy with the 1rwhp/cube rule.

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