65 swb bbw rebuild thread

[jamon8]

Hi everybody from southern Illinois. I bought this truck with a supposed 327. I started getting a set of 416 305 heads ready for the supposed 327 by porting them out and putting 1.94 valves in them.

[jamon8]

Then I bought a 79 k10 with 1 1/4 inch rotors for the front cross member. I pulled the engine and then installed the member in my 65. In the picture you can see Capt. Fabs bracket for the power steering gear box.

[jamon8]

While changing the crossmember I pulled the engine and to my surprise 3 and 1/2 inches of stroke. Now I have a set of heads that I have money in that will not work if I want to tow with this vehicle. Plus I really wanted a 327. So I did some trading and got some work done in the garage and started to build my own 327. Started with a pre 1979 4 bolt main 350 block and had it punched 20 over.

[jamon8]

here is a video of the truck running with the 350 and when you watch the video I talk about edelbrock carbs but really they are junk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY4ASn1IvYY

[jamon8]

I called a machine shop that opened up the 305 heads and asked if he had any large journal 327 or 307 cranks. He sold me one for 30 bucks and I had it turned 10/10.

[jamon8]

I am building this motor from scratch so I called a buddy to see if he had some rods and had some flat tops pressed on

[lumpy63]

Very cool! Been thinking about doing the same thing