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Nah that's totally a thing. We run the drags here at the airport and all the local guys just buy their race gas there. Sometimes you need to know a guy though. Stock motors from the 60's shouldn't ping on modern premium. Either your dizzy is way too advanced (or the advance plate is...

I mean i want to daily this thing, I'm not going full race gas here. Jaguar v12's were 12.5-1 compression ratio and ran fine on pump gas. We'll be fine, I might even get away with 90 octane, not 92.

Sounds like a tomorrow problem. Should run fine on pump premium with 32-36 degrees of timing. I'll pick the brains of the machine shop for final ratio when i get some expert measurements on it. I Measured it as stock bore, but that's with my craptacular calipers. It might still be 20 over or so.

The stock pistons are roughly 1/16" depth flat tops and it comes out to 10-1 with the 516 heads, which have the same chamber size as 440 source Haven't done the math yet because I don't know what it'll be bored out to, but I want +5 CC relief pistons and the 440 source gasket is pretty thin...

Yeah my plan was to have some fun and then dump it at the bodyshop for the winter. Oh well.

Ah. That may be, but the felpro pan comes with 4 traditional gaskets, and clearly it was letting water in. Phoned every machine shop in town, they're all booked solid for at least a month. There go my dreams of October.

Cracked open the motor. It almost looks immaculate inside. However there's some serious wear on 3/4 of the passenger side bores. Small spots of rust and some piston skirt wear right at the bottom. I thought the rust was from me powerwashing the block, but the one with the open exhaust valve was...

Tomorrow the violence begins. Again. Not impressed with the quality of this stand but it's the only one i could get today. Welds are not remarkably reassuring. But it's only about 150 pounds load per bolt/tab. Oh well.

Bought another engine stand so as to not play musical stands with my 351. Tab was way longer so my bolts didn't fit. Cool. These torque converter numbers mean anything to anyone? I'm really hoping this is the high stall towing package converter, which theoretically the car should have, but it's...

The parts fairy stopped by again. Hot damn.

Still waiting on engine bits to show up and I'm still patching the floor. Really dragging my feet because wire brushing under the car upside down sucks and I don't like it. Though in unrelated news, took Sketchy Bob drag racing for the first time, got the big prize for shitbox...

Yeah they look like those heads. It has been rebuilt around 2000, and now has modern looking aluminium pistons in it. It's a factory 10-1 motor so the stock pistons should be zero depth flat tops. I'm really hoping that when it was bored out they put in valve relief pistons. Compression was very...

Yeah sure should be. I put a six sided 31mm to it, which is 1.22", still loose. 1-3/16", or 1.1875" will not even try to go on.11/16" Whitworth is 1.200. It's a whitworth bolt. Actually it's in Substance Painter. None of this is real, go home. So my new top end, roller lifters, rockers...

More orangey than I had hoped but not bad. Ill paint the pan, covers etc when I pull it all apart to do the cam. I also decided that since I want a roller cam, the factory springs will not take it. So **** it, time to do the whole top end. I have the money, why not. Oops!

Upon further research, 11/16" whitworth has compatable threading with SAE, and a head that's 1.200" across. This is ******* whitworth. Not on my bingo card for today.

So what should the crank bolt size be? 1-3/16" is too small, won't go on. 1-1/4" is too big, and turns it but is very sloppy. I would not put an impact to it. What is this? Also, I decided while i have it apart, I'm going to do the valvetrain/cam. Do the heads this winter. Splits the money...

Well the front bolts/outriggers are what actually locates the stub and transmits the forces, and that was actually hunky dory. Relatively at least. The rear box section only really supports the tortion bars. Probably a mercy the bars were so clapped out, even in that state I watched the rear box...

It's bad! Also you'll note that's not dirt on top, it's sand. From the popular location, the ocean. I also found some rust holes in the foot well on the inside of the stub frame mounting box sections, which are entirely sealed on all sides. Meaning this had to have rotten through from this...

"""affordable""" Guess i'm making a baffle and beating the **** out of this pan instead.

So the oil pan doesn't have the baffle in it, and is so dinged up there's a witness mark where the sump was touching it. Not great. Bottom end looks terrific though. Bit of slop in the chain but that's going away when i do the top end so who cares. Otherwise spotless, i was expecting a lot of...