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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 17, 2019 11:19:13 GMT -8
I just looked at the specs of the 260H. It sure will pick my top up a lot. That cam is bigger than the "266" Crane Energizer in my Monza.
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Post by spud on Aug 17, 2019 13:38:35 GMT -8
No doubt a good cam for a 304 w stock gears and convertor... should stoke up some 304 madness there cap.
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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 17, 2019 16:47:05 GMT -8
I'm now worried I don't have enough gear lol.
Reb wants me matching those 'Bama Cop Jav top end stories of 158 mph lol
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Post by 69Rebel on Aug 17, 2019 17:17:56 GMT -8
Well, I'll be happy enough to see you get it installed. Maybe re-curve the "dizzy", and slap a set of cheap Hedmans on it. Then give us timeslips. Maybe a different set of timeslips for each upgrade.
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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 17, 2019 19:14:46 GMT -8
I think I'm further ahead to slap it in the "Monster 304" and swap motors. The Monster 304 already has springs on it from the 272 HMV.
I honestly don't know how my bud's brother had the cam installed. Whether his timing set was retarded and he didn't check it or what, cause that cam was huge in that motor. 218 @ .050 and .480 lift intake.... Not that 260 212 @ .050 which I'm assuming would have worked good with his 3.54s and 2500 stall. His car never got moving till almost the 330, but once t was rolling it rolled great. Didn't want to roll race against that car. It would rev 6800 no problem at all.
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Post by 69Rebel on Aug 17, 2019 19:51:30 GMT -8
Holy cats, Cap. You have two 304s? Yer practically leading a double life. :-D
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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 17, 2019 19:55:37 GMT -8
Yep, I gave my bud my 360. Then a little while later he gave me the Monster 304 after he was done with it. He sold the Crane out of it tho to fund the 360 cam.
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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 17, 2019 19:57:50 GMT -8
I also have a set of small body headers out of his Bro's Whornet that the Monster 304 came from, but they are a bit rough. The car was totaled and some of the tubes got twisted and one or maybe more have a slight tear in it.
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Post by spud on Aug 18, 2019 6:11:04 GMT -8
Whats been done to your monster 304? Has it been rebuilt?
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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 18, 2019 7:00:13 GMT -8
It was in 1984, had a good 500 track passes on it. It was slow, but he sure won in the brackets with it. He was heading to Indy for the points finals, till his trans gave out, cause of a shitty rebuilder.
Stock pistons and valves.
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Post by spud on Aug 18, 2019 15:52:13 GMT -8
Well to really blow my cover, i was thinking a low power 304/ 904 combo might just be a predictable and consistant bracket combo. The musclecar challenge drag racing venues have been nearly totally taken over by modern shit. Which i think sucks.
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Post by spud on Aug 19, 2019 8:14:13 GMT -8
I have been studying rick’s pictures of flywheels and flexplates and something seems odd. He shows a 79 304 manual flywheel that has no counterweight. Looks just like a six cylinder flywheel, which is zero balance. I think this is doable, if the crank is able to be drilled and balanced without the counterweighted flywheel. I dont know why amc would do that, other than maybe they had no 304 wheels... that dont make sense either, if they used the same basic casting with varying amounts of iron milled off the same counterweight for either a 304/360 or 401.... which appears to be what they did. So... if this 304 i have... was made with one of those zero balance flywheels.... i sense maybe clusterfuck may be at hand....
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Post by sc397 on Aug 19, 2019 12:27:23 GMT -8
Yea, I took that 6cyl looking flywheel off of the 304 that I shipped out to you. I believe that it was original to the engine. It is the only one that I have seen like that. It had like 5 large holes drilled in it to balance it.
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Post by spud on Aug 19, 2019 14:13:45 GMT -8
So that picture of that 79 304 flywheel in the flywheel id section is the actual wheel from the 304 you sold me? If so , i think i understand why i have a shake. The pioneer flexplate i have on there now has what i would guess is approximately the same size rectangular weight on it as the normal 304 flywheel you have pictured.... if thats the case i dont think the flywheel reb is sending me will fix the balance. The 5 large holes drilled in the original flywheel are spaced around the wheel in a manner that kind of cancel themselves out. It sorta appears like its still closer to zero balance than not. I guess i could use an old t/f flexplate with no weight at all and see what i get, trial and error balancing dont sound like a good idea.
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Post by sc397 on Aug 19, 2019 14:52:15 GMT -8
You could send either flex plate to me and I can have it match balanced to the flywheel if you want. It would be the best solution.
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