New Engine

Motor Specs:

67 390 Block, bored .30 over,10.5 to 1 compression

Crank stock

Rods stock

TRW Piston

Edelbrock Rpm Cam. intake 236,exhaust 236 @ 0.50, lift .572 intake, .572 exhaust.

Edelbrock RPM Aluminum Heads

Edelbrock RPM Aluminum Intake

Rocker arm Shaft support(Made by Oregon Cams) with Comp cam roller rockers

Crane Cam Pushrods 9.05 ball and cup.(had these specialy made)

Speed Demon 850 cfm Carb.

MSD Pro Billet Distributors

MSD Digital 6 Plus Igniton Control Box

Just wanted to show what the 302 look like when i first bought the car,and how it looks today with the Big Block in it. What a differents!

Pic of the 302 the first day i bought the car. Here is the pic of the 390 Now!!. Fuel line from carb to fuel regulator.

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Linkage on the demon. Lower bracket Alternator.

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As you can see from the picture below we put the motor,and transmission in today.It was a pain in the ass to get in!!!!

Note....If you are going to install the motor with the same type of headers i used(Hooker super comp headers) I would take the steering Box,and Idler arm off first.....If we would of took them off it would have made this install alot easier.....Nice to find out after the fact...LOL

Motor is in!!!! Still work to be done!. ONe more Pic of the motor.

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Motor with Edelbrock RPM Manifold. Motor with Hooker Super Comp Headers.

April 17,2004 I have started to put the motor together.It's about time!!!!

The first thing we put together was the oil pump,oil pick,and windage tray.We wanted to make sure we had enough clearance between the oil pickup and the pan

Oil pump,pickup,and windage tray Oil pan checking on clearance!!!!!. Edelbrock RPM Cylinder head.

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After that was ok we started to put the heads on.We ran into some problems with the rocker arm shaft support and the head bolts.We where putting ARP head bolt in. If you look at # 1 You can see how high the ARP Head bolts are to the Rocker arm shaft support. # 2 We had to do grinding on the under side of the rocker shaft support to have them sit flat on the head.

So the other problems # 3 as you can see from the picture there was NO way a ARP head bolt would have fitted under those hex bolts # 4.So lucky for us that we had some stock heads bolt from another 390 motor to put at the end of each head. # 5 shows how close the hex bolts are to the stock bolts

The other problem was that i wanted to put the valve spring baffles on the heads,and with the new rocker arm shaft supports we had to due alot of grinding on the lips of the baffles to get it to work.

Oil APR Head Bolts under Rocker arm shaft support! Bolts on heads Edelbrock RPM Cylinder head with stock bolt.

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Front view of Motor with Rocker arms Front view of motor Edelbrock RPM Cylinder head.

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