FirstCoastCobraClub

Not much visual to show. All of the cylinders have their notches for the rods to clear. I'm almost finished form fitting the crank scraper. I did have a little disappointment thou. While the 400 2 bolt block has wider and stronger main webbing than the 4 bolt I had planned to use studs instead of bo...

Not sure...it really is almost done except for the assembly. I just have to keep motivated. I figure that I can make good time on it while the fiberglass resin is drying on Tom's car.

Tom asked me to try to attach multi photos..so these are reruns.

Hmmmm. It also will not let me put 2 photos on the same post. So here is the other cylinder.

Here are a couple of pictures of my progress on the motor. I have all the rotating parts all balanced, and I'm starting the pre-fitting of the rods and pistons. So far it looks like I only have to do one small relief spot on the bottom of each cylinder. The only problem with that is that I want to b...

My research indicated they hit in too many places in the stock block with the longer stroke.

Yep, I stepped it up a little bit. Went with forged pistons this time, I-beam rods with 7/16 arp bolts and floating wrist pins.
Compression should be right at 10.5.
4.155 bore with 3.875 stroke....421Ci.

Cam and heads are the same....had to same the budget somewhere..lol.

Shiny stuff has arrived.

It almost seems like a shame to put all these pretty parts in a hot hole and make them go up and down real fast.
Ken

WooHoo! Waiting for the "Big Brown" truck...Lots of motor parts on the way.

I'll post some pictures as things go along.
Ken

looks like they thru a large hunk of Red Meat into the pack of wolves.....good fun to read thou.
Ken

If I'm in town Ill go down with you.
Ken