Project Goldilocks, '66 C10 SWB BBW Build

[65Custom]

nice project!!! subscribed

[theastronaut]

Originally Posted by 65Custom

nice project!!! subscribed

Thanks!


I got the engine torn down last night. The cylinders had a touch of rust around the rings but nothing that won't clean up when its bored. The crank journals look pretty good and I can't catch any scratches/gouges with my fingernail. I used a set of numbered dies to mark the main bearing caps and the main webs in the block to keep track of their orientation before taking them off, definitly didn't want those getting mixed up. The lifter bores look really good and the lifters were nice and tight in the bore. I had been looking into putting a solid roller cam in it, but I've only found one company that will custom make them, and listed the price as "call for price". That usually means $$$$$ so I'll probably stick with solid flat lifters. Hoping for 375+ horsepower, does that seem doable with this combination of parts?

Plans for it so far include:

Bore the block enough to clean up the cylinders.
Balanced stock crank.
Lighten the flywheel.
Eagle forged 4340 rods, 5.7"
Forged pistons, haven't found any "off the shelf" yet.
Head bolt boss removed from intake port, lump port kit installed.
Larger valves, ported heads, decked for more compression.
Block decked for .040-.050 quench.
13:1ish compression (will be running E85, 105 octane)
Solid flat cam, wanting it to pull to around 7000-7200 rpm.
Comp Cams Aluminum roller rockers, 1.75 ratio.
ARP main and head stud kit.
Triple Weber/Dellorto 2 barrel side draft carbs
6 into 1 header, single 3" exhaust, magnaflow/dynomax straight through muffler?

[theastronaut]

Since we're on the subject of look-alike trucks, here's a pic of one I found on ebay that's a similar color. I also did a rough lowering job with MS paint. I posted some pics in the photoshop thread hoping someone would be able to drop it and swap 18's with stock caps on it, no luck yet.

[theastronaut]

Got the rest of the bed floor support rails out tonight, no pics but they'd be pretty boring to look at anyways. Gunna take them and the new strips to the powdercoater monday and hopefully they'll be done within a couple weeks. That should give me time to get the wood painted and the bed sides undercoated before it all goes back in, that is if its warm enough! All the work on the bed has been done under an open shed so far, and its been gettin pretty cold once it gets dark so I'll probably start loading it up and hauling it to our shop when I work on it. My VW doesn't have heat so it'll be nice to get to drive this thing through the winter next year!
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[MalibuKasey]

Here ya go.... all you had to do was ask... GOSH!