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The B is for Birthday cam. When you order one you have to be sure it's very near to your birthday when you order, because if you order it just after your birthday Ford wont make it for another year, True facts.
The cylinders look pretty good. You put the first piston in. I was like….. Art!!!! Turn the engine on its side!!! Put pieces of hose on the rod bolts!!! You must’ve heard me because the second piston the block was turned!! 😂
Cool channel. If it was me. I would have trouble sleeping tonight not knowing tolerance for crank bearings. Used block with a different used crank, would have used plastigauge just to check. Keep up the great work.
When you decide to go carb, make sure you use a single plane intake manifold. The main reason is whenever you switch to a Sniper, they don't like dual plane as much.
just put copper spark plugs . You aint trying to make 100000 mile without changing sparkplug you are trying to have decent performance without selling an eye
Good job, this was a good video. I like the way this build is going, on a budget like the vast majority of us do. 15-20k on a turbo LS or Coyote is cool but, to much money and then they’re finicky to drive around town. Wanna go fast, the big dogs always run big blocks so, a 460, set of.030 pistons, $$ heads/cam and Yur fast at half the cost of a finicky running turbo LS…lol imo. I’m thinking, 13:50 with that setup and NOS will get into 12’s? Pretty cool fun /burnout car for budget money.
I would you to plastic gauge the main and rod bearings to find out what your tolerance is. As well as check your ring and gabs before installing rings on pistons to make sure you have no ring bind in the bore.
Used plastiguage and gapped the rings off the pistons, just didnt film any of it because it would be two hours of me staring at a micrometer and feeler gauges hahaha.
Neo mustangs on RU-vid goes in detail on it well but you basically take rod and piston from cylinder 1 and put in cylinder 5 with dot facing backwards and then vise versa cylinder 5 rod and piston you would put in cylinder 1 and you do that for the rest of the engine all the way back so 2 to 6 and 6 to 2 etc. all pistons have their dots facing backwards. If you look at the rod and piston from the side you will notice they’re slightly offset and not center and that’s where you get your slight bump in compression. But like I said check out neo mustangs here on RU-vid and look for his vid on the piston flip trick for 302’s. I did it on one of my fox cars just last year.
302 is a fair offer . Yes yes 260 289 were race engine . 302 to 305 ? Bof .but you are starting from the block .so that 302 will make plenty of power if big isolated electrical wire fly solo and are not held , touch by metal . Not even a rubber coated strap . Gm is nice ignition coil is on the distributor cap
Why would the 302 NOT be considered amongst the other "race engines" especially considering... The 302 engined Ford GT40 won at Le mans in '68 just like the 289 and 427 before it...even without the manufacturers support that year... Or... The Trans Am series of late 60's early 70's which created the "Boss 302". Designed and constructed as a 302 with incredible pre-Cleveland style heads to take those races also. The 302/5.0 is arguably the most successful if judged solely by its longevity (30+ years) or its aftermarket boom for Ford street performance....
