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if you want an interesting sound run full exhaust with 2" staright pipe with a crossover or h pipe. had it on a square body blazer and it sounded like an old indy car. be warned that setup will cackle/backfire.

welcome, im a young, old southern michigan boy myself.

fingers crossed it runs well enough. theres not a lot of support for these little motors. morana racing has quite a bit of stuff but its $$$. cant find anyone that has run multiple carbs on one either so this could all be a shot in the dark.

heads are straight, intake was around .060 i think cant remember. i had issues with a few of the bolt holes in the intake because of the strange pattern but luckily there was enough meat to the intake to enlarge/slot a couple.

no its actually .100 off the head and .20 off the block. not a typo. the intention is to shrink the combustion chamber, .020 off the block zeroed the deck. im running close to .560 lift with 1.7 rockers and have the pistons fly cut deep. it nets out to be about 11.8 to 1 compression with a .049...

yeah head gaskets are an issue, i had .100 machined off of each head and .020 off the block, running mls gasket and 11mm arps. ive been down this road before with motors like this so it wasnt even an option. my deadline of mid june on the project is out the window because i have to rebuild the...

ive spent years building ideas in my head, this build is one of my oldest. super wide truck cab all welded into a roadster on a short super light chassis, no bed or fenders. i know its been done but i just need one. and as for a ford in a chevy, im not biased, ill use any engine/body/chassis...

im digging the short wheel base im in the same boat. axle center to center front to rear on mine is around 102".

thanks everyone, i started a build thread with more pictures and details if anyone is interested.

I actually have not seen my dad since Christmas we talk on the phone a lot and anything I need I measure a lot and some times draw up blueprint and mail it to him. then it comes in the mail. he lives in Michigan and im down here in Virginia. hes retired and lives within his machine shop. no...

so that's where im at right now. hope to have it on the road by the end of june beginning of july. only parts im lacking are rear axle and cooling system. everthing else I have just needs installed/fabricated. hope you all enjoy it as much as I am.

another pic of the floors also chopped up and modded the headers. and the only shot I have of the steering

that brings me to about where im at right now. cab is on the frame floors are about 90%, passenger door is welded on (they will no longer open, roadster bucket style?). I have filled most of the holes in the dash I wont be using. the cowl vent was a rusty mess so that's welded shut too. built...

out comes the sawzall and cut off wheel. I braced the cab a little and sliced out what was left of the floors and off came the roof.

then I had to decide which cab I was going to run, I have a prewar dodge truck cab and the 50 chevy cab. they were both very rusty. did I mention this is going to be a roadster. I picked the chevy cab because the roof was already separating at the body line. heres a pic the day I got both cabs...

went and got a 2 wheel drive 99 Cherokee front axle and cut all the brackets off, rebuilt both ends with new unit bearings and ball joints. constructed some suspension arms with a combination of DOM tubing poly bushings and some 3/4 hiem joints. steering is going to be something special. since...

pics are a little blurry because my phone is terrible.

after the engine was all done I did some research and found that a c4 auto trans with a 164 tooth flexplate with bolt up directly converter and all. so I scored one on craigslist for $100 that was "rebuilt". so I tore it apart and actually found it to be a fresh never ran rebuild so I tossed a...

well I guess im still a newb on this site but with all the hounding for pictures in my introductory post I figure ill just start a build threads. the engine cam first, engines are my bread and butter, the odder the better, so I started with a 3.8l v6 from a 96 mustang. did a good heavy port...

thanks for all the welcome posts!