Progress Thread Project Copper Can

[MikeH686]

Head gaskets finally showed up, oil pans been installed (just in time for me to remove and weld a oil drain bung onto the side of it.

Lifters and spider tray has been Installsed, timing cover attached and balancer and timing pointer also installed to show true top dead center with cam correction.

Heads have been fitted and torqued to spec. Push rods have now been measured and ordered, they are coming from the west coast should see them mid next week. Hopefully the end of June I'll have the motor back. We test fitted the intake on and found that some of the runners don't match up so they will need to be port matched.

 

[MikeH686]

 

[QuietOne]

Likes the out of this

 

[Davedacarpainter]

New engines are so dang pretty Mike.

 

[MikeH686]

@Davedacarpainter i know right now I feel like I need to do something about my turbo kit so it doesn't make the engine look bad lol

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Time to break out the metal polish?

 

[MikeH686]

Not so much that as the hotside idk if I should paint with hi temp paint or use header wrap

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Depends on the look you like. I like the look of wrap if you take your time and wrap it neatly. Plus it will help keep it cooler in your bay.

 

[QuietOne]

I say wrap the hot side and use a turbo blanket if you can. I'm going to Cerakote my cold side (When that time comes) and Paint/Coat other accessories under the hood a dark gray to contrast the Calypso Green.

 

[MikeH686]

I was wanting to ceramic coat my headers idk I'll have to weigh to options money wise

 

[MikeH686]

So went up and met with the machinist because he had to talk to me about the intake. Nothing lines up on the intake from port holes to bolt holes. Another 250 dollars just to get everything to line up. The intake surfaces need to be milled .120 on each side to get to fit the way they should and bolt holes need to be elongated to get them to bolt properly

 

[QuietOne]

So went up and met with the machinist because he had to talk to me about the intake. Nothing lines up on the intake from port holes to bolt holes. Another 250 dollars just to get everything to line up. The intake surfaces need to be milled .120 on each side to get to fit the way they should and bolt holes need to be elongated to get them to bolt properly

Thats weird I wonder why. It's a 8.2" deck, which the lower is made for. Maybe the intake side of the DART heads are slightly different than factory?!?!?!

Not going to lie You and @tannerc91gt make me want to scrap all my plans and go full tilt on my car right now.

 

[QuietOne]

I was wanting to ceramic coat my headers idk I'll have to weigh to options money wise

CeraKote or ceramic coating would be my choice. I also have a thing for header wrap...........

 

[MikeH686]

@QuietOne you gotta think though the block has been zero decked, the heads maybe had .005 removed from them. When you add that to each side gives the intake a port misalignment. From what he said is it's not uncommon to see

 

[NIKwoaC]

I like the look and performance of wrap, myself.

New engines are so dang pretty Mike.

Agreed!

 

[Chuckman]

So went up and met with the machinist because he had to talk to me about the intake. Nothing lines up on the intake from port holes to bolt holes. Another 250 dollars just to get everything to line up. The intake surfaces need to be milled .120 on each side to get to fit the way they should and bolt holes need to be elongated to get them to bolt properly

Perfectly normal for a super vic. Seems they were designed around edelbrocks own heads with a slightly raised port.

Biggest reason I want to try the tfs version on mine, it'll still need to be ported but if I don't need to mill it.....

 

[MikeH686]

@Chuckman yeah I'm not too worried about it only thing I'm concerned about is the surface area near the waterneck and it going through into the water neck. He said he will be doing it in .020" increments

 

[MikeH686]

@NIKwoaC well it's decided looks like I'll be buying header wrap

 

[stangboy]

So went up and met with the machinist because he had to talk to me about the intake. Nothing lines up on the intake from port holes to bolt holes. Another 250 dollars just to get everything to line up. The intake surfaces need to be milled .120 on each side to get to fit the way they should and bolt holes need to be elongated to get them to bolt properly

I heard that Super Victor intakes have to be milled to the heads you're bolting them to when you buy them new.

 

[MikeH686]

So the intake was milled and bolts were elongated to fit. It ended up getting milled .140" on each side. Intake is bolted down as well as pushrods came in and rockers bolted and set up. Motor is completely done at this point. I spoke with Ballard and Wayne at ptc and I'm having a converter fast built for me (1200) dollars for a nice billet front end converter. Also got my trans ordered to be built .. looks like around the 4th of July I'll have everything to be ready to put back into the car. Here's the final pictures from the builder I haven't picked it up yet.