My new project 86 Silverado

[naphtali5725]

Originally Posted by 77BBGMC

Good luck with after market parts, I've bought a few interior pieces from a couple different distributors and so far haven't been happy with fit and finish (except for inner fenders). You would think somebody would make quality aftermarket parts for these pickups, especially for the common items. Watch ebay and craiglist for NOS and you can get lucky sometimes but for the most part prices have gone crazy...supply and demand.

I agree, and thanks for responding… since I am building a street machine, and not a show type truck, or back to original etc. I will not be needing any interior trim items, no headliner and what not(I have a custom aluminum dash) just odds and ends stuff… was looking for another option to LMC…

anyone else?

[NONHOG]

Check out the vendor board here. Wes and Frank come to mind.

[naphtali5725]

Originally Posted by NONHOG

Check out the vendor board here. Wes and Frank come to mind.

thanks!

[naphtali5725]

will be going Thursday to pick up my engine, will post pics then, been a long time, and i'm glad it's finally built and paid for LOL...

[naphtali5725]

picked up my engine today!!! will post pics tomorrow...

[naphtali5725]

here it is, nothing fancy, stock colors for 1976, some cheesy chrome was supplied by the builder, i'll leave it
it's what's inside that counts LOL

will have an Edelbrock RPM intake and headers, I know a guy on another board that has a 87 swb wilh the same setup as mine, and I forget what headers will fit, but I have the email…

Oldsmobile 455…

specs...

Block bored .030 over
Honed with torque plates
Decked .010
Mains align honed
Crank turned/polished .010/.010, straightened
Factory rods reworked, ARP bolts
Factory cast high compression pistons advertised as 10.25:1 - .010 in the hole
Hastings moly rings
Clevite main/rod bearings
Melling high volume oil pump/pickup/drive rod
Rotating assembly balanced with dampener and flex plate installed
Clevite cam bearings
Bullet hyd flat tappet cam - .512 lift 230/284 duration on both int/ex on a 110 LS
Matching valve springs 110lbs closed, 285lbs open
Cloyes true double roller timing set
J-heads reworked (bowl hog, not ported) milled .022, new 2.07 int and 1.68 exhaust valves
New lifters/pushrods/rocker arms
Stock 4 barrel intake
Modified 800cfm Quadrajet, 76 main jets - 48 primary rods - DB secondary rods
All Felpro gaskets

[NONHOG]

Look at all that torque!

[naphtali5725]

Originally Posted by NONHOG

Look at all that torque!

looks so tiny in the picture… but 460+ cubes makes for serious torque… should be a blast to drive

i have another cool Olds build going on now as well… from an Olds builder in Florida...

Olds 455… specs…
Block bored .025 over for a Pontiac Icon piston
Scat 7.00" H Beam rods
"N" crank
Balanced
ARP main studs
Align honed
Square decked
Bored and honed
Block dressed and relieved
Federal Mogul Main brgs
Clevite rod Brgs
Durabond Cam bearings
Mahle Moly Top ring set - file fit.
Cloyes Billet timing set.

waiting on reworked C-heads and a Performer Intake from an Olds builder in
Ohio… will decide on a Hyd roller cam soon...

[naphtali5725]

touched base with Jim Lehart, progress coming along on my 461 Pontiac... maybe 2 more months..
I should do a poll to see which one, the Olds or Pontiac gets installed...

[NONHOG]

I'm biased, so I vote Olds! Also its been done several times. Not sure how well the Poncho fits? (mounts and exhaust?) Either way looks like fun!

[naphtali5725]

Originally Posted by NONHOG

I'm biased, so I vote Olds! Also its been done several times. Not sure how well the Poncho fits? (mounts and exhaust?) Either way looks like fun!

i really need another project for one of these motors, but i just can't decide on what...
wish I had kept my 67 step side... maybe i need another one lol

[naphtali5725]

been cold here for days and days... waiting on motor mounts to come for my 455... using Olds 403 mounts from a 78 Trans Am so I can use the standard Chevy frame side mounts...

like these...

[naphtali5725]

got the motor mounts for my engine... have to go back to Florida, my Dad's recovering from some surgery... will install and hook it up as soon as i'm back mid March

Going to be buying my gauge kit in the next couple of weeks, it's about the only electrical left that i need to get, then i can start wiring the truck...

[naphtali5725]

the weather is not motivating me at all...

[Hankster]

Poor truck. I hate snow.

[jpnh]

X2-

[naphtali5725]

gonna get a lot of work done today... yeah right

got 6" of snow last night...

my 40 foot waterfall...

[rs74]

Originally Posted by naphtali5725

gonna get a lot of work done today... yeah right


my 40 foot waterfall...

I hear ya. -1 here right now.

[naphtali5725]

got my engine side mounts today... from firebird central.com

[Hankster]

Sweet! Thanks for Serving btw!

[naphtali5725]

Originally Posted by Hankster

Sweet! Thanks for Serving btw!

thanks, it was a privilege

[Hankster]

My dad was with the 75th Regiment and Airborne qualified.

[naphtali5725]

Originally Posted by Hankster

My dad was with the 75th Regiment and Airborne qualified.

yeah the ranger regiment, all are paratroopers, all of us dumb grunts jumped together LOL
504th for me in bragg
tell him thanks for his service

[naphtali5725]

after checking over my engine, the builder did not know a few Oldsmobile specific things... in the left rear of the engine, there is a 29/32" plug for the oil galley, behind that plug is the actual oil galley threaded pipe plug, well for the Olds engines, that galley pipe plug is supposed to have a .040 hole in it to oil the distributor gear...

so i have to pop that 29/32 freeze plug out and replace the galley pipe plug with the right one with the .040 hole in it... i already have them to replace, but is a bummer... delays delays grrrrrr

[Hankster]

Thank you, sir! And atleast you have the parts already. lol