Re: Run what ya got…….

dfree383 January 6th 2024, 11:28 am

BOSS 429 wrote:which hyd stick do you plan on running?

Crower 22205 236/245 535 545 on a 108 it was in stock, little small but it will work with the stock rockers

BOSS 429 January 6th 2024, 11:45 am

There's an old crane cam I used to use with those. 588 lift? that's all I can rem about the cam num right now, MAN DID that work great on the street, stock rocker and all. I will have to look that num up sometime again

dfree383 January 7th 2024, 9:09 am

Times like these I wish Crane was still in business and old school…… these “modern” companies are noting but pirates…..

supervel45 January 7th 2024, 8:41 pm

Doug has a 250/259 .580" Something Lift SFT he had for sale awhile back or offered.

Don't Know if You Could Use It, Just Saying

supervel45 January 7th 2024, 8:43 pm

BOSS 429 wrote:There's an old crane cam I used to use with those. 588 lift? that's all I can rem about the cam num right now, MAN DID that work great on the street, stock rocker and all. I will have to look that num up sometime again

F246?

dfree383 January 8th 2024, 8:54 am

supervel45 wrote:Doug has a 250/259 .580" Something Lift SFT he had for sale awhile back or offered.

Don't Know if You Could Use It, Just Saying

Got a mechanical on the shelf from Cam Research….. didn’t feel like dumping money into the D3’s

This Crower is just a intermediate, until I get some extra cabbage to buy a set of aluminum heads.

I’m being cheap!

dfree383 January 18th 2024, 6:14 pm

Todays mission complete…..

Dropped the Block, D3’s and Crank off at the machine shop for some lovin’ and a balance.

Should have back in 4-6 weeks.

dfree383 January 23rd 2024, 2:34 pm

Well got some bad news from the machine shop, one of the D3 heads has 2 seat/chamber cracks, looks like I need to figure out a plan B……

Eddy’s?

TFS Streets?

Or try another round with a different set of Iron paper weights?

BigBlockRanger January 23rd 2024, 3:47 pm

Normally I would say TFS Streets 10 times out of 10, but dang, they are scarce.

Edelbrock seem to be about the only ones available new. I'm not a huge fan of them which is why I ended up with SCJ's.

But with any of them, you are looking at heads, rockers, guide plates, pushrods, etc.

Maybe just find another D3 to replace the cracked one.

Price5113 January 29th 2024, 3:48 pm

Are DOVE castings hard to come buy where your at?

dfree383 January 29th 2024, 7:02 pm

No they aren’t hard to find, just looking to start cheap and see what the upgrades get me. It more of a fun experiment.

dfree383 January 29th 2024, 7:05 pm

Double tap

dfree383 March 3rd 2024, 7:30 am

Block machine work and Crank balancing is done pick up the parts next week.

dfree383 March 28th 2024, 8:17 am

Picking up the block Saturday.

Still on the hunt for some heads.

Will probably end up with Edelbrocks as the TFS street seem to be out of production.

That is unless I run into a deal on something.

Going to assemble the short block once I get my Altered back together and running. Will probably be a few months.

BigBlockRanger March 28th 2024, 9:10 am

Awww come on, ya tease! Laughing

dfree383 April 1st 2024, 9:44 am

Well…… found a set of. D3’s local that have been “rebuilt”, just stock stuff.

Going to swap springs and do a little bowl blending and cut the guides down and add some seals.

Sticking with stock rockers and 972-16 comp springs and retainers.

Should have about 10.4:1 compression

dfree383 April 10th 2024, 8:23 pm

Crower kept pushing the cam delivery off, so I ordered a bullet hyd flat tappet

240 250 .553 .553 on a 108

Also going to drop off the heads to get a clean up cut and the guides cut for seals this weekend.

supervel45 April 10th 2024, 11:22 pm

dfree383 wrote:Crower kept pushing the cam delivery off, so I ordered a bullet hyd flat tappet

240 250 .553 .553 on a 108

Also going to drop off the heads to get a clean up cut and the guides cut for seals this weekend.

Is that one in stock?

dfree383 April 11th 2024, 6:40 am

supervel45 wrote:
dfree383 wrote:Crower kept pushing the cam delivery off, so I ordered a bullet hyd flat tappet

240 250 .553 .553 on a 108

Also going to drop off the heads to get a clean up cut and the guides cut for seals this weekend.

Is that one in stock?

No bullet doesn’t have “in stock” cams everything is custom ground, 4-6 week wait.

supervel45 April 11th 2024, 1:26 pm

^ OK, I did not know if they had any cores.

I was going to pass on a NOS cam I saw listed for 120 bucks.

It's 235/240 .545"/.545" 108 before someone snags it. I don't see many cams available like that very often.

dfree383 April 11th 2024, 1:30 pm

If you can grab it grab it, they aren’t easy to come by

427John April 14th 2024, 2:49 pm

dfree383 wrote:Build is entering the budget evaluation point……..

Not going to “modify” the D3’s for larger valves and adjustable valve train. Just can justify the $$ in for the return. But they will get it running for future upgrades.

Just going to spring them and do a valve job and run stock rockers with a hydraulic FT cam “for now”

Taking the block out in a few weeks to hone fit the pistons, line home and deck the block, and get the crank balanced, Bob weight came up to 2258. Like stated heads will get a valve job and surfaced.

Will do a update on this in the future probably to TFS streets or Eddy’s, the solid cam I have and a bigger induction system, it would be cool to see how much bang for the buck you get from th top end.

Tally Ho Fellas…..

Sounds like a good plan, you can do any porting you want to do, get any necessary machine work done (valve job guides clean up mill) and see what it does with them and then you can tell us just how much power the Eddy heads are worth, when you get them. Who knows it may be so much fun you won't see the need for them.

dfree383 April 15th 2024, 7:09 am

Heads went to the machine shop yesterday

Waiting on the cam and I’ll have everything for the long block assembly.

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