broken camshaft, oh $hit................

[Robert1970C20rstbukt]

Last week the engine in the pickup blew all to hell. Me and a couple friends were at the back of the college seeing who's exhaust was louder and obviously I revved the engine a little too hard(yes i know that was a stupid thing to do, i damn sure learned my lesson!). I heard a loud clunk and the engine cut out. I thought it threw a rod, turns out the camshaft broke and shot out the back of the expansion plug up against the flywheel. Had to get a redneck wrecker(another pickup with a tow rope) and pull it to Grandpaw's house. We pulled the 350 out tuesday and finally got the 307 put in and running today. It's been bored .040 over and has .010 overside bearings on the rods and mains. It runs great, 60PSI oil pressure at a hot idle and the gauge pegs out while driving down the road. We bought it for $150 almost a year ago(which was a hell of a deal, we didn't even know it was a factory rebuilt engine with not that many miles on it), just never got the time to swap 'em to rebuild the 350 which was pretty tired. The only major thing we did was take the 2 barrel intake off and put the 4 barrel on it with the Q-jet. I plan on taking the 350 apart tomorrow and see just exactly what happened, and rebuild it when $$$ allows.