Not a chanch. Str8 starters are str8 starters. However, from the drive back, they are almost the same. So, with a little machining and fiddling around, you can create nearly any kind of starter you...
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Not a chanch. Str8 starters are str8 starters. However, from the drive back, they are almost the same. So, with a little machining and fiddling around, you can create nearly any kind of starter you...
Use the 49 to 52-3 Carter WCD 2bbl. Buick used these carbs mostly along with Strombergs during this time. The strombergs leak and are a pain to work with. Carters came 99% of the time on the duals,...
Dave, you are indeed asking the right questions long before putting a wrench to the car. Normally I don't comment on chassi changes because I don't do it, but I have buddies that do, and I help out,...
Dale, You may want to be a little carefull welding on the rods. All the str8 rods have a heat treat on them. Just what, I don't know. Prior to 1950-ish, all the rods rockwell about the same, after...
All dynaflows are the same. However the bellhousings are not. The bellhousing bolt-up to the trans is the same, so with a bellhousing change, you are good to go!. alleycat
I have a 58 limited hardtop, and have had it for about 40 years. During that time I've collected up every scrap of factory information for it, that I could find. I have the factory sales book that...
Since the deck was lowered. Then the rod and piston have to be shortened up accordingly. The rod is shorter by 3/8” which gives a rod ratio of 1.79. This is a nice ratio and one that brings in the...
On to the 263, the engine in the center of this. If a 1950 Special and a Super were sitting side by side and a casual observer took a look at the engines, if he detent really know exactly what he was...
Correct. 1950 was the last year for the 248 but the 1st year for the 263. So the overlap was 1 year. But, the 263, based on evidence I've dug up, like the block casting number, looks like it was...
Continuing right along...Lets look at actual design. The decks of both248/320 are identical. The head bolt holes on the right side are blind, in that they bottom in the wall and are not into the...
In the early 30's, Buick, in spite of its move to str8's, was getting killed. The engines were little more than 1920's 6's with 2 more cylinders added on, and they looked 1920's. Buick needed "new"...
Well, it looks like I'm going to have to get into this, I did'ent really want to, I don't write fast and this will take some time. So, lets get on with it.
Buicks power figures. Buick, and anyone...
I agree with jryki, 9-9.5 would be a great ratio, if you can get it with out having a dome on the piston top that looks like it should be in a 426 hemi. Set up the bottom end carefully, remember,...
I like the E85, mainly for it's potential. I don't understand the new batch of "flex fuel" gas/e85 cars. How can the engine be efficient trying to run both types? Gas engines and alcohol engines are...
Jyrki, I kinda think you may be barking up the wrong tree...When you described your problem, you mentioned that the amount of alcohol in the gas and that you had stromberg's on your engine, and that...
Duesy, I do indeed like the 263. Mainly because, it was the last, only, modern, str8 made. There may have been a few racing str8's, or a few str8's made "across the pond" but these might be kinda...
Ok, so what does this mean to us engine builder guys? Str8 guys in particular?
There's no such thing as a "perfect" rod lenth or rod ratio. Only a most approprate rod for a particular intake...
The rod thing. Oh, boy, is what I thought when Jyrki started this. (insigator!)This could be messy. Oooohboy. I've been trying for about 30 years to get a good grip on this "rod thing". (slow...
This is a very intresting thread! I've never got to put a wrench on any of these early, first generation str8's, so, befor I throw in my 2 bits worth I did some research and thought about things a...
Yes, indeed! There is new info! I was finally able to go to central Oregon and check out the 36-7 engines & cars my buddy told me about a while ago. Turns out that there was a 33'ish-34, 90 series...
Titanium is a very cool material and rods made out of it even cooler. I have shoved a few sets into engines I built, (not for me!) these were "money is no object" engines, so, rather a waste. But...
Presten, you are indeed having very much the same issues I ve found. Annoying. When you have the advance cranked up and its hard to start, is the starter, sort of, running into the advance and...
At this point in time, I'm not making any pistons for the 320. Since the 248 piston is the same as the 320 only smaller, what I learn about making the 248 piston will be applied to making a 320...
The heads that are on all str8's are "T" port, in that the intake goes into the head straight and level, makes a sharp 90 degree left & right turn into the valve pocket, forming a "T" if viewed from...
Well, as a matter a fact, they are! I saw the photos you posted and, Ah-Ha!, Buick DID have a port like what I thunk possiably may exist! I've no idea of what exactly that head of yours came on, mid...