Hello All!

Thanks for your help welder!!!

Alrighty, so Comp tested the aircare motor, cyl 1-50psi cyl 2-55.. cyl 3-0psi.. I stopped there.. It wasnt ignition, I am still supprised it ran..

I was kind of down, So i jumped on craigslist and found a diamond in the rough..

I just bought a 302, It has 68 289 heads, heavy port and polish on them, bigger valves, screw in studs, guide plates.. bored .030, 10:1 comp..

7000km since the motor was built.... I paid 500$ for the motor...

So super dialed on this..

They are 289 heads, where are they stamped? I will check for the castings tomorrow..

The old motor had excessive blowby and I was taking a chance on it.. I was driving along, I could hear a detonation like knock. Than it started to feel like it was firing the ignition all over the place when you would step on it.. The next morning I started it up, it made horrible knocking noises.. We are suspecting ither a hole in the top of a piston, a broken skirt on a piston, or a bent/broken/stuck valve.. The engine was out of a 74'.. And had more than its share of abuse, so no big loss really..

Alrighty got the engine out tonight, painted the engine bay, stripped what parts I will need.. Yadda yadda yadda..

Tore into the engine for my own knolage and piece of mind..
It showed, 1 bent push rod on intake valve on cyl 3.. Slightly bent intake valve on cyl number 3. Looks like an impact mark on the top of the piston.. And a ****ty headgaskit, probably the origional from 1976, possibly a leak, but no water/oil mix, and no white smoke... Timing chain was also tight..

Thinking that if the engine sat for the past 10 years of its life with cyl3 intake open, the spring may have lost some pressure and 'floated' the valve, causing said issues..

In conclusion.. The heads on the new motor are not "hipo" heads, they are casting #13.. Although they have screw in studs, larger valves, guide plates and a heavy port and polish, I am sure they will be more than sufficiant untill I get the built 289 in the car..

Next question.. Can I bypas my leaky heater core for the time being? Do I run any risk doing so? I was once told that you can't do It on fords.. But I never was told why..

Alrighty, a little eye candy for you guys..






Painted up :d






Does anyone know how i can identify that intake manifold on my new motor? it looks like it uses a valley pan type gaskit, and from what my parts guy is telling me the 302 never came with a valley pan type gaskit? any help on that would be much appriciated..

Called the ford dealership today, the casting number off the intake wouldnt show anything in their system, guy said it didnt go back that far, he said it was off a 80 Tbird judging by the casting number. Yeah, it is hollow between a couple runners can see rite down into the valley..

Bought the rest of the parts to assemble the 302 for the car.. turns out the front cover didnt have a hole for the dipstick drilled in it? ..
Looked down the plug holes, no carbon, nothing, could still read "made in Canada" and ".030" off the pistons..

Yeah, we have a couple toys..
79 Camaro Rs, 350 .030, rv cam, 3.43 posi. Factory 4 speed car, with a hurst shifter.
79 Trans am, Special edition, 403 olds, 3 speed auto, 4.11 posi..
68 Cutlass supreme convertable, with a 455 bored .030, roller rockers, big lift cam, 10.5:1 comp..
80 camaro, experimental smallbock with a piere cardan interior, stock. garage kept 123xxx km on it.
35 ford 5 window coupe, factory origional.
41 ford convertable, apparently 1 of 7 regi'd in north america,
42 ford tudor super delux in restoration
and a 46 ford coupe in restore..



I guess you could say I am from a family of car nuts..

Alrighty, So been getting a bunch more work done to the stang.. I will feed you guys more pictures..

Cleaned the interior:




Picked up my headers from storage:



Painted using plastikote, NEVER USE THIS ****!



Finished assembly of engine:







And lastly, painted the hoodscoop on the car, still need to polish the hood..


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The motor will be dropped in this coming weekend, wich brings me to my next question.. HOW do I install the headers?

Lay the starter on the cross member, headers on the inner fender's and lower the motor and carress everything into place?

It looks like this job could be involving alot of swearing and soforth..

Also, how to flowmaster origional 40's sound on a stock/mild 302 with headers, 2.5" piping? Thinking about replacing with these as my current muffler has a huge hole in it..

ahh james, that looks CLEAN!

So after the Canucks loss, I decided to take some agression out on the car.. Slammed some parts onto the motor and got it in for 1am.. Not bad for my first go, with headers added into the mix too.. Still got to do some more random things, but its close..

Some more pics..











We ended up laying the headers in the bay, and as we dropped the engine down into the bay, we made sure to clear the headers, and pull them up into position, it worked out well, defently sacrificed alot of the ****ty plastikote paint, I think when i put the 289 in the car I will send the headers out to be ceramic coated.

Alrighty, So I have had it running for 3 days.. Slight issue now, Intake valve #3, is Sticky, sometimes it runs well, sometimes it pops outta the intake, we know the valve isnt bent as it does seat, and when it does act correctly the engine runs amazinly.. So, We will be working the valve in a bit more tomrrow, cleaning, and temp cycleing it.. Stand by for linelock roasting of the Riken radials..

any tips would be appriciated or experiance on sticky valves..