I had over 500000 on my 1st one. It only used 1/2 pint of oil every 2000 miles fired up very easily every mornin. Would still spin my 33s with 2.92 rear-end. So yeah I would say they are tough
Chandler actually the intakes for these are super easy to find. I found a single 4b intake for 80 and a twin 4b for 150 and I found a 3 2b setup for almost 200 but I got the slightly bigger Carter 2b running about 290 cfm more than the factory stromberg did
Norm Howes Carter. Notice where the fuel line is? They don’t make some replacement parts for the strombergs anymore so I bought a Carter and plan on making my own parts for my stromberg
I need to get my hands on one of these. Love the head design. A lot of potential. Some home porting with a dremmel, some custom-made headers and custom ground cam from Comp, and I could imagine these semi-hemis will really sing!
Wish poly heads would git on LA blocks. Those poly heads are way she's if their time. In fact, put a set of poly heads next too a set of new 5.7 "Eagle" HEMI heads, and they look almost identical.
The old polysphere 318's were far superior to the wedge-heads that replaced them IMO; they were what I call a "poor man's hemi". I knew some folks many years ago who had these, and they apparently got very good gas mileage in their day- especially considering the size of the vehicles they were in. Always got a kick out of that TINY 2-bbl carburetor on them as well. One of the smoothest-running engines I knew of, except when you first pulled away from a stop- EVERY one I knew had a slight hesitation which I figured might have been due to the spaghetti-bowl intake manifold on them...
sounds great. I've got the same one in my '64 power wagon with what we believe to be 42,000 original miles on it, and the truck. love the poly motors. I work for a guy who's got a poly 315 in his '58 D100. that thing has some serious balls!
A buddy and I are about to start rebuilding the same engine. I'm having some trouble finding the right gaskets for this thing. Does anybody sell a rebuild kit or am I going to have to buy everything individually?
