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Are you using stock diameter shafts ? and can I buy just the stands ? thanks

does anybody make a rubber main seal for the 320 engine and if so is there any machining needed to adapt ? Thanks

Doug...........you guys go fast and be safe.........

Dale

Where can I buy hypereutectic 401 pistons, 0.040 over

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Jyrki..........I guess we are all busy trying to get these Buick Eight to run.....I just today told myself that I cannot make speed week this year.........maybe the Oct meet? Spent too much time...

Doug..........did you tap into the oil galley with a 3/8" pipe thread ? ...Or , I guess what I mean is what size hole were you able to tap into the oil galley? And what brand filter are you using...

Thanks to everyones' help........2.3755" is the number I was looking for....

Little help guys...........need to re-work some 320 rods, anybody got info on what size to hone the bearing end too..

Can someone give me the "big end" bore on a 320 rod ?

Jyrki..............are these the same width as stock rockers?.........and let me know what your decision is on the helicoil........

Thanks, and they look great!

Yes I have a stock cam I can send you........but let me check to make sure the lifter lobes are in the center of the lifter bores......something in the back of my mind tells me that the stock lifters...

I have also found problems with the stock rocker stands,and had to make a set of steel ones.......only to find that the real problem is in the shaft itself........I put a strobe light on the valve...

Are you going to have the distributor gear hobbed on the blank or is that something we will have to do? Can we have the front snout changed to Chevy cam gear set up?..............good to see you...

Jyrki........the pushrods I use with the stock lifter are 13.385" (over all) and that is with the head cut quite -a-bit. So I don't think 12 is long enough on that material you re talking...

http://www.pushrods.net/pdffiles/SmithBros_Cat2012.pdf

Sorry that I have not had time to post lately........been busy remodling my old farmhouse, and trying to get ready for the World Finals at Bonneville next month.

Does not look as if I can be...

Doug........sorry for you guys bad luck......but you make us very proud......I did not make Speed Week this year, but will try to be at the World Finals again later thisa year..........and again ...

39 CENT...........thanks for posting the link on converting to a full flow oiling system..........I think I will copy that to paper and keep ot on me at all times.........I must have had to draw...

I run a full flow oiling system on my engines................prior to assembly, remove the oil pump, clean up the oil passage (leaving the oil pump) with a half inch end mill just far enough to clear...

..........Gerry had told me that we was having stock cams re-ground for his roller cams.......

http://www.davessmallbodyheis.com/

Paul.....I agree with what you have written.........but I think "scattered valve timing" is what is needed on these engines,with or without EFI........getting these paired vavles to share a equal...

Just a note to thank all my friends here on the Buick Site...........Have a Great Holiday...

Saltracer (Dale)

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Do you know where I can look up part and/or casting numbers for the 320 heads ?

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