The INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER PUB thread - all welcome
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07-01-2009, 11:26 PM
If that Cleveland is a 4V top end, I hope he's got some serious rod bolts...
The Cleveland originally WAS a truck engine, and then the Mustang crowd got interested in it. Next came the 400M....
Same block, more cubes, many parts interchangeable. Or did the 400 have a taller deck height? I don't remember.
I built a stock Cleveland factory 4bbl once - at a price of $1600 USD. The machine shop guys told me it was a 351M. All I added to it was a cam from Schnieder Cams in San Diego. Blown UP before I rebuilt it, and sucking coolant through a total of nine cracks in the two heads it made a 1973 Grand Torino do some of the most spectacular burnouts I've ever seen - that damned thing was laying rubber going into fourth gear (a previous owner had ditched an automatic tranny and dropped in a four speed). I have no idea to this day what the rear end ratio was.
The car was set up with side pipes, and made a wonderful thundering sound going down the Pacific coast highway
But I never got the front brake hydraulics to work right before I sold it.
Much too late I found out about a metering block bypass that had to be known about to bleed it right.
I was running forty series tires on the front - GOD DAMN it was a sweet car.....
The guy I sold it to got arrested for dope running and it wound up in a scrapyard. STUPID GIT!
I think the heads off of it were bought by a friend of mine on base at Miramar though - he had a Ranchero with a 351C and I told him about the heads and the car. The ports in those heads were enormous!!! Way overkill for the displacement.
The Cleveland originally WAS a truck engine, and then the Mustang crowd got interested in it. Next came the 400M....
Same block, more cubes, many parts interchangeable. Or did the 400 have a taller deck height? I don't remember.
I built a stock Cleveland factory 4bbl once - at a price of $1600 USD. The machine shop guys told me it was a 351M. All I added to it was a cam from Schnieder Cams in San Diego. Blown UP before I rebuilt it, and sucking coolant through a total of nine cracks in the two heads it made a 1973 Grand Torino do some of the most spectacular burnouts I've ever seen - that damned thing was laying rubber going into fourth gear (a previous owner had ditched an automatic tranny and dropped in a four speed). I have no idea to this day what the rear end ratio was.
The car was set up with side pipes, and made a wonderful thundering sound going down the Pacific coast highway
But I never got the front brake hydraulics to work right before I sold it.
Much too late I found out about a metering block bypass that had to be known about to bleed it right.
I was running forty series tires on the front - GOD DAMN it was a sweet car.....
The guy I sold it to got arrested for dope running and it wound up in a scrapyard. STUPID GIT!
I think the heads off of it were bought by a friend of mine on base at Miramar though - he had a Ranchero with a 351C and I told him about the heads and the car. The ports in those heads were enormous!!! Way overkill for the displacement.
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#38
07-14-2009, 04:27 PM
That said, they retail for similar or a little more than the Pontiac G8 GT does there.
I think thats being sold for around 27k or so here, so that gives you an indication of what they could go for if they were sold here.
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07-14-2009, 04:35 PM
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07-14-2009, 07:20 PM
Only problem I can see is the right hand drive - but there are a lot of direct imports in the states that are set up that way.
Now - when we say "Costs about the same as" is that after taking US -vs- AUS Dollar conversion into account?
The next question is shipping and customs I suppose.
Even if one of them were a problem to register and insure in the states - it would be one helluvva show truck on the American show circuit. Matter of fact it would be a STANDOUT
Now - when we say "Costs about the same as" is that after taking US -vs- AUS Dollar conversion into account?
The next question is shipping and customs I suppose.
Even if one of them were a problem to register and insure in the states - it would be one helluvva show truck on the American show circuit. Matter of fact it would be a STANDOUT
#41
07-14-2009, 08:32 PM
People that modify them tend to go to extremes:
http://www.maryboroughspeedway.com.a...ugh_hypvid.wmv
(about 2500hp)
Only problem I can see is the right hand drive - but there are a lot of direct imports in the states that are set up that way.
Now - when we say "Costs about the same as" is that after taking US -vs- AUS Dollar conversion into account?
The next question is shipping and customs I suppose.
Even if one of them were a problem to register and insure in the states - it would be one helluvva show truck on the American show circuit. Matter of fact it would be a STANDOUT
Now - when we say "Costs about the same as" is that after taking US -vs- AUS Dollar conversion into account?
The next question is shipping and customs I suppose.
Even if one of them were a problem to register and insure in the states - it would be one helluvva show truck on the American show circuit. Matter of fact it would be a STANDOUT
I would rather save the heartburn.
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07-14-2009, 10:30 PM
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