Absolutly solids. For a 52 320, should be hydraulics. Somebody has been monkeying round. Once upon a time...I got...annoyed at the hydros in my engine, and jerked 'em out and threw in a set of...
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Absolutly solids. For a 52 320, should be hydraulics. Somebody has been monkeying round. Once upon a time...I got...annoyed at the hydros in my engine, and jerked 'em out and threw in a set of...
Yup! Got here last thursday, and friday I left for central Oregon on a str8 head-hunt. I thought I had a fairly good chanch at finding the "not sure it actually exists" better head for str8's. I did...
How great is this? Grass roots hotrodding!! This just kills me!! I love it! So cool....At $200 bucks, you got a excellent deal! You got your hands on the best str8 possiable, smokin!, and unless it...
Hydraulic lifters were around in the 30's, Cadilliac and Packard used them and a few others as well. They were a nightmare. Because of the oil and filters of the time just were not very good, they...
The heads are totaly interchangable. The 53 head had slightly relocated sparkplugs but thats it. I'd grab the head just to have extra parts around, ya never know what may transpire in the future, and...
That is what I finally got Egge to do, just cast me up a bunch of pistons. I initally tried to get them to just put a 3-ring pac on their piston matching the rings I sent them. Nope. My bet is to end...
Uhhhhh, well, how much I would and did, overbore a 263 is very likely much different than you or most anybody else would bore out to. I bored out my 263 to 3.437 or, the same size as a std 320. I...
Well, you need to figgure out what you really want to do with the engine. Is a nice runner ok? Or do you want some real power? Even though the pistons and rings are likely destroyed in your engine...
Well, yes, hopefully. The 263 actually has a very good, modern piston in it, but it is still stuck with the old, really crapy, cast 4 ring set. Which is ok for nothing more than a bone stock rebuild....
I can almost tell you exactly the problem. Most, if not all the top rings are broken. Some of the second rings will be also. On the lowest holes its likely that the rings have broken up into bits and...
Thanks CNC! I'm now starting to get a idea of how this offset thing works. I've got a while to "mull" this stuff over befor I get my pistons....Since other pistons are in the area of .100 or more...
I find this pin offset thing somewhat perplexing. A long time ago, when I spent a lot of time at the dragstrip (SIR) I would try to talk to the "big boys" about engines. These things, engines, just...
Back on #12 Charley mentioned that the 263 has offset piston pins. I knew that, but have never checked what it actually is. None of my Buick service manuals mention what it is either. I assumed it...
Well...I was'ent going to redo the 248. After blowin it up about 3 times, the 4th rebuild actually was working pretty well. But the car...had gotton so bad, nice engine or not , ya just did'ent want...
When I started this piston hunt, about 5 years ago, I started by calling the usual buick piston suppliers just to find out what the pistons were made out of, who made them, where?, etc. Egge was the...
Exactly right. I have a 58 limited, and I've had it a long time. At the time there were a lot of buicks in the yards around here. I put my head under the hood of every one. I saw plenty of carter...
Riiiiight! Tooling up to machine these pistons is likely to be just as big a job as machining the pistons alone! All the fixturing will have to be exclusive to these pistons. I have no idea as to how...
After beating on Egge for about 6 months, I finaly got them to step up to the plate and make me some pistons! Well, not quite. They don't want to machine them (too hard to make up a new program for...
Yeah.....pistons. I've been beatin on Egge for about 6 months now, trying to get them to make me a set of pistons. In the beginning, it was " sure no problem", now there seems to be a lot of stalling...
Ah...This sounds like the old "bigger is better" belief. If it worked, then we'd all be running gigantic engines making gigantic power. But it won't. There are a lot of big hp engines out there, but...
Mmmmm.....Does the 320 have some clear cut advantage over the 263 that I or anybody else is unaware of? alleycat
Hah! I was wunderin if you was "lurkin" around out there! alleycat
The original spacers were a phenolic material. GOBO's solution for heat soak is a pretty good one. I had a similar problem, the exhaust heat can just fry the carbs. I had to make spacers since the...
D. Elgin cams @ 1-707-545-6115. He is 'posidly in Santa Rosa, Ca but I've found 2 different places for him, so give this # a try and see what happens. Be ready to give him some info, I think he knows...
This sounds like pretty much what was happining to my engines a while back. It's not running enough ignition advance. The stock settings are almost no advance at all. Won't work, or at least, not...