I believe those mounts will work with the 2wd 302,351m.400 mount stands. They look a lot like the home made ones i did about 20 years ago . Nice to have some thing like that on the shelf to buy, better looking than the ones i did. If they won't work I'm sure some body will say so .

 

Update time! Had some delays in getting my 429 but it's home! It's actually in better shape then I thought. You can deffinatly tell someone went through it not that long ago gaskets are brand new and it's clean inside. Still it's getting pulled apart to do some work to the heads and such. I'll get a picture of the motor mounts and have you guys tell me what you think about if they are aftermarket or not.









Reppin' my job right herrrrr!

 

Alright well I'm on lunch right now and last night I did some work on the engine. I pulled the passanger side head off and checked it all out man it looked good under the heads! The bore looks great and there's still a nice cross hatch in there. It does have stock replacement dish pistons, but I expected that.

The bore walls were great no nicks, rust or anything. They were a little dry from sitting so I sprayed some Tool Box buddy on the bores.

I brought the passanger side head into work today and started going over it. Pulled it all apart, it's sitting on 30 thou shims, 2.08/1.65 valves, someone put bronze liners in the guides and they are just a tit bit loose so I'm gonna knock them out and put some new ones in.

In a bit I'm going to CC the chamber to see where I'm sitting at and I might flow them tonight so I've got a base line. I've got pictures to post but they will have to wait till later since my lunch is over now. Until next time!

 

Looks like it'll be an awesome build.

It's gunna pretty handy working where you do....

 

Duh it's a Ford that's why it's awesome!


So I've got some pictures from last night I'm uploading, the first set is of the mount. Tell if you guys think this is stock or aftermarket. And if you think it will work with the 351M towers.






When I pulled the engine apart it looked really good. It's not all carbon'd up.





My block is the D1VE-6015-A2 block.






Overall looking at the engine it's looking good inside and out. My big suprise on if the engine is good is when I pull the pan off. Hopefully the bottom end looks as good as the top.





So any hooters after my update today I was going over the head a bit and finally got around to CC'ing it this afternoon after I got it all pulled apart. I had a little duh moment with the buretta but the end result was 97.01cc on the buretta but because of my mess up it's probably 95cc. I'll double check it tomorrow to be 100 percent.


(Prepping the chamber by spreading grease around it to give it a good seal with the plate.)




(Starting to fill the chamber)





Afterwards after I had CC'd it I took it back to the porting room and cleaned off the deck with a scotchbright. Normally I wouldn't do that because I'll be decking the heads a bit but I didn't wan't the flowbench to get dirty. I didn't get a chance to flow them today but hopefully in the next couple days I can. We've been busy. I've worked the past 8 days straight and I've got anothor 4 days to go till I get a day off.


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Also I posted this in another thread but I'll repost it here. Two weeks ago I made a custom carb spacer made out of a piece of some high tech composite that won't transfer heat. It's pretty trick. It's 1 inch tall and I did most of the work on the end mill while the last bit and details were done with a cartriage rolls.

 

Okay update time! Been super busy at work the past week so that's whats taken awhile with update due to race season started we're getting slammed with orders and quality takes time. So I got the drivers side head pulled off the short block and looks good on that side to. So hopefully when I pull the oil pan and mic the journals everything checks out good.

I will be spending the money and re ringing and new oil pump and bearings. For ease of mind and to know everything is good. I actually found alot out about the engine this past week. It's not a 429. I mesaured the stroke and actually found out it's a 460. Which actually ended up working to my advantage because I'll be closer to my desired compression with out milling the heads as much.


I took the drivers side head into work and started dissassembling it and noticed that the head was messed up. I over looked it when I got the engine because it wasn't noticeable. This is a prime example of really going over anything you buy for you vehicle. On the exhaust port the boss on one side was grinded down and some tried to tap it. It ended up busting into the side and someone broke the bottom of the tap off in the AIR injection port. Now I did debate about getting the tap out then getting the boss welded up with spray weld. But I decided against that because of cost. Like I've mentioned before the goal of this engine is to show you can make reliable power on a budget. Part 2 of the engine build will be radical with the goal of making one of the nastiest street driven dents that will be running in drag week. Just a little teaser of that build is I will be using a set of our 205 heads which flows over 520cfm as cast. It will be CNC ported and twin'd.

So I cruised over craigslist at work on Thursday and found a set of C8VE heads for 125 bucks. They were rusty and crusty but they are being brought back to life. Now for future referance for someone looking for a good small chamber head for a 460 and can't afford the DOVE here's a little tip. C8VE, C9VE, and DOVE's are actually all the same head. The main difference between the C8/C9 and the DOVE is the C8/C9 do have the Thermactor bosses in the exhaust as the DOVE, D2VE, D3VE, D8VE, etc but the are not drilled.

Chambers range between 75-77cc depending on how much the valves were sunk with the valve job, amount milled, and tolerances of equipment back then. Deffinatly a big compression boost over the 95-97cc D3VE.

Also the C8VE has factory screw in rocker studs. Now I will have to get the correct guide plates, hardend push rods, and BBC screw in studs. No biggie.

So I took them apart today and it had deffinatly seen it's better days. After dissassembly, cleaning in the parts washer and some sand blasting they came out looking pretty good. As you can see in the pictures I didn't go crazy with the sand blaster. Now I will be installing bigger valves (2.19/1.73) along with the porting and such. There was a little pitting on the deck which I'm hoping isn't that deep and a 20 thou mill will take it off. We shall see.

Since I've got a better head now I'm going to go a little more wild on the cam I'm considering a couple choices at the moment but leaning towards a more agressive version of the Magnum cam I was looking at. Probably the 280 grind.

That's todays update! Pictures are at the bottom of the post.

 

Well I finally got a chance to work on my C8 heads today between being slammed with even more orders at work, getting ready for race season, and doing the heads on my race car I haven't had a chance to do anything yet.

Well today I started doing some port work on my heads starting with the exhaust I cartridge rolled the port smooth and ground down the Thermactor boss into a wing. So far I've left the short turn and the bowl alone due to the fact they still have to be valve jobbed and throated. Man looking into the bowls and the exhaust port of these heads it's no wonder the flow sucked! It's pretty choked down.

I've still got a little more work to do on the port but it's not coming out to shabby. One thing I realized today is how much I had grinding on cast iron. It's a PITA grinding on it. I also ground down the big bump near the top of the middle of the intake port, there's a step at the entrance to the intake port but I'm going to leave that alone till I gasket match it.

I think once these heads are cleaned up and done they are gonna flow real nice. I'm pretty excited to see what kind of numbers they will put down. Good news I also got this week, a customer of ours has a engine dyno so I may be able to get a free dyno session once the 460 is together! Once the heads are done things should be going a lot quicker.

Now a question for you guys. Anybody know where I can get stock replacement CJ valves 2.19/1.73? Everything I've found so far a race style valves which are nice but over priced for what I'm doing.




Before





Rough cut of the wing

As you can see I still need to make a smooth radius on the guide boss but may just delete it all together. Flowbench will make the ultimate descion.





rough cut of the wing

 

Envious of having the shop and the skill to sex those heads up.

 

Lol I just got lucky to work where I do. Skills I wouldn't say so much I just blend some stuff at work once in a while this is my first port job so we shall see how this goes lol

 

Well it's been a while since I've been on here, I've been so busy with work and slamming on getting both my race cars done. I got them finished and completed ready to go last night. So now I can officially start focusing on the truck, well this past week it's just been one thing after another with the truck.

Tuesday my brakes went out it blew the wheel cylinder in the back. Got it all done and fixed by Thursday but the brake light still remained on. Hmmmm. I wonder what that could be? Checked over stuff everything looks good and it stopped good but it was still on. Well I was just gonna roll with the flow till I could afford to rebuild the whole brake system. I know it's not ex*****ive but I'm getting my *** handed to me on lawyer bills.


Then last night happened... I wrecked the truck. It had been raining all day and I drive very cautiously in the rain and I came up on a corner that was sharp. I was slowing down on the brakes just doing my own thing when they just locked up. Truck starting sliding straight even through the wheel was cranked to the right. So I let off the brake and the truck was still sliding. There was a big electrical pole and to the left there was wood posts with the yellow arrows on them for the corner.

And it went down into a field well I know there was no way it was gonna work so I decided to aim for the field I'd rather get pulled out them total my truck. Well I was about a half a second to late and the truck hit the guide wire to the pole and went up it. I was almost 90 degrees vertical. Soon as it hit the truck shut off. Then it slid back down and the back end slammed in to the post. Got out checked everything over. It didn't even scratch my bumper or my hitch gotta love hillbilly bumpers. Got to the front end and it was all busted up.

I didn't have to get under it to know it bust the radiator. Well the sheriff showed up and the FD, the sheriff knew me because of the fact I'm a volly fire fighter and all the fire fighters knew me. Got the truck off the guide wire and sitting on the road. I didn't even get cited because it didn't bust the guide wire or damage the pole I just had to put the post back up straight and clean the dirty off the road.

My dad chain towed me to my best friends house (where I was originally heading) and we looked over the truck. It was bad. destroyed the bumper, crushed the grill and the core support and get this. If it wasn't for the bottom middle bolt on the grill it would of never popped the radatior and I could of drove the old girl. But it bent the frame. I was a mess because that's my truck I love my truck so much.


Well Tyler (my best friend) and his family are HUGE Ford nuts expecially for the Dentside generation. His dad was like I got a bumper and a radaitior we can get her back on the road! So from midnight last night till this after noon I rebuilt the whole front end of the truck. We straighted the core support out and I fixed the grill the best I could we threw in his super cooler radiator he had for a 302, fixed the frame and mounted the new bumper. Now I'm back on the road driving the old girl. She drives better ironically now after all this. She used to pull a bit to the right now drives straight as an arrow lol. I'm so thankful for Tyler and his family we busted *** on this thing and in less then 24 hours where on the road again.


I'm going to replace the core support and grill though. Mainly for cosmetic reasons. But I do have an update on the 460 project. It's going from mild to radical. I probably won't be using the C8 heads now. I'm going to hopefully be going with the Ford Racing John Kaase Super Cobra Jet heads. And man are they nice! But it get's even better. I'll be going Hydro roller on it since I can get a nice discount on it it will be a custom ground cam. And here's the kicker. I've got a tig welder avalible to me now so here's a question for you guys.

How many of you would like to see a Bad *** turbo'd 460 in a dent side that would run deep into the 10's on the drag strip and still be street driven? I would! So I am! I've already started collecting for the turbo set up. I'm just debating on what Turbo to go with due to the fact I'm RPM limited with the Hydro roller cam. So I want something that's gonna come in low but not choke out. I may go with a turbo off of a newer diesel but if I can swing it a Turbonetics turbo. The nice thing about this engine build is it's still not gonna be to terrible on the price. You guys come on these build threads to read them for enjoyment and ideas well I want you guys to have a cool thread to be excited to look at. At the very latest I'll have my lawyer bills paid off by September, and I should be off probabtion then so the money will really start flowing then. I'm trying to locate a bed in really good shape at the moment so if anybody knows of one in the Ohio Indiana area let me know! Sorry for the long winded post. Hopefully I'll have the damage photos up soon.

 

Soooo question time for everybody, how bout we make this a viewers choice on this? I love getting on here and reading bad *** build threads. And I like to be different. I've got this 460 here which is awesome and there's no replacement for displacement but making horsepower with a big block is easy, toooooooo easy.



I've been thinking about a Turbo small block too. I could easily trade my 460 for a 302 or a 351, or maybe even a turbo'd 400? I can easily get bad *** heads from work for the SBF, but I've also got the tools, help and equipment to go crazy with stock heads virtually making the only cost on stock heads the valve train componts since I can machine.


So I leave the options up to you guys. I'll give it till Saturday for you guys to choose.

continue with the 460?

Turbo'd small block?

Or build a 400 and possibly turbo it?


Voting is now open!

 

There's no replacement for displacement and many can argue that the 460 can make the most bang for your buck. Keep it going.

 

Yes that is true. But I just got a trade for a 400 and some cash for my 460. More then I have in to the engine...

 

Hey Mike, sorry to see that Scooter got crunched, that really bites !
I'll weigh in on the engines. Personally I would go the 460 route, I like displacement. The more displacement, the more torque in the lower rpm range.
But this is your truck, do what makes you happy .
I'll be looking forward to your progress.

 

If you want to be different then go with the 400.