Your Daughter and Your car....how they should NOT be brought home.....

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Well, it happened... some may call it...."innocense lost" while some may call her a party girl gone wild.....whatever the case...

having your car or your daughter rode hard to the breaking point is never a good thing.....

well, I have no daughters. However I do have a car, that was rode hard, and decided to cry about it....

green tears of antifreeze rolled down the motor.... and I being the ever loving owner hoped for a busted hose or a clamp that had given up it's grip...

No such luck.... nice crack on the lower part of the motor big enough to dump most of the antifreeze and cause antifreeze vapor to make it look like a 1979 disco.

So the question now is what would you guys do....

I have parts in the motor...nice cam 202 heads, etc etc.... would you just buy a block and transfer the parts or would you start from scratch...??

Crate motor?

I'm thinking if I just get another nice block and transfer most of the parts I can upgrade some of the ones I had not gotten to....keep the best of both...

Any suggestions are welcomed.....I would like to keep this most pocket friendly....

what would you do.

Everyone loves a big'un..... :eek:

Come to the Dark Side.........(we have cookies)

If I had to start over, I'd go to the darkside. Love that tourqe.

How long were those parts in the motor? If not long, then buy a short block and do a cam swap and head swap and yer good. Or........this could be a great time to think 383 Stroker motor. (Big block torque without the hernia surgery) and the 383 stroker is a bolt-in swap, no changing springs, no throwing the weight distribution out of whack, no needing to pull the motor to change spark plugs........lol. ;)

When life hands you lemons.......make lemonade!!!!!!!!

How long were those parts in the motor?

Well, I bought the car used, and when I got it the guy told me the motor had just been rebuilt he estimate that it had less than 8,000 miles on it since then. I have put maybe 300 miles on it.

I think the problem occured when I had it shipped from the seller, the company I used to transfer it to Houston showed up with a non working car. I think the young punks who loaded it to the 18 wheeler hot roded it and at the time it had a switch for the fans that you had to manually turn on. I assume that they did not and overheated it. Maybe this is where the problem started or maybe the previous owner built it on a poor block whatever the case I can't exactly say for sure it's been 8k or less heck for all I know those parts have been on there for 58K.

I would buy a 406 short block for about 2500.00 and swap the rest of the parts over.. Itll be a real runner..
good luck
Hulk

Usually when one get's hot, you crack a head, not down by the oil pan rails!!

Crack down there tell's me that just maybe a rod let go!!

Will it run??

And if so, how's it sound b/c it should run fine w/o coolant in it until it get's good and hot!!

Been there, limped one home several times on the highway using just the air coming through the rad. to turn the w/p fan.. I'd kill her and let her coast down long hills to hold her temp down, then crank her back up to go over the next hill!!

My darn junk301 had a habit of throwing fan belts at high rpm b/c later, I found out my Alt. bearing was going south!

pdq67

Will it run??

And if so, how's it sound b/c it should run fine w/o coolant in it until it get's good and hot!!

pdq67

She runs fine, sounds fine other than she can't control her bladder. I did not let her get hot nor did I drive her after her misshap. Talking to some people right now about changing her out...

What kills me is that all the shows just kicked off and now I have no car to cruise in.... I think this calls for drastic measures....

I'm thinking about breaking into the "breast fund" (the breast fund is the fund set aside for my girlfriends....well, you know......)

Motor or headlights it's a tough choice......

and before anyone ask to see a picture of the motor or my girls "ahems"....the answer is no.

Do the motor first and if she doesn't understand, then you've just saved a bunch of money.........lol Probably should find out if she's in it for the long haul though before investing that kind of money. I know a guy that used to work at GM that paid for his girlfriends umm surgery and never got to enjoy the results as she dumped him after. Just food for thought.

Without a motor you don't need headlights. Cheap 350 rebuilt replacement short block should be had for well under a grand (since it's a cruiser, not a racer). Then drive it during the day until you fix the headlights. I wouldn't touch the breast fund, no pun intended.

And when you replace the bottom end you're likely to find other problems that you didn't even know existed and would have sidelined you in short order anyway.

OR, some good old JBWeld!

Guys have said more than once that they have just cleaned a crack like this up using BrakeClean and gobbed a bunch of JBWeld over the crack and went right on!!

I would back off on the rad. cap pressure tho to help it out!!

Talk about "shade-tree"!!!!

At least it MAY get you through the show season and when your G/F's new boob's fund is filled up so's you can fund a short block..

pdq67

After you fix the headlights , she'll want a new bottom end too!!
It never ends!!
Good luck

The crack can be fixed. I know as our 292 (.060" over 283) that I had sitting in my garage for years somehow developed two cracks about 1.5" long. Took it to a machine shop that fixed it by stiching plugs in the cracks (the bore a hole half way into the crack, incert a steel plug, bore a hole halfway into that plug and into the crack and incert a steel plug till the crack is plugged end to end). They then pressure tested it to double operating temperature. It cost $200 and they do these repairs all the time.

The dark side is calling and the force is strong....

come to the darkside we have cookies? haha I never got my cookie! hope it turns out good for you either way, sorry about your loss

I must admit most of my friends and most of the responses do call on the dark side.....

just even saying it starting to sound and roll off the tongue easlily...

it just sounds mean too....

the more I think about it, the more I'm willing to miss this season and do it right....

then again PDQ's jb weld might hold me over for the season....as well as Cardinals....I will look into both first the machine shop then the PDQ's as a last resort either way....I don't feel comfortable running around with that kind of problem unless it's been taken care of.

I should know more by the end of the week.

If you are looking to get it up and running NOW - crate engine all the way.

I grenaded the engine in my 72 (not the original) on a Monday night. Trailered the car to Wayne's house (rscamaro73) on Friday morning. Picked up the engine (GM Performance 350 HO Deluxe) from a Chevy dealer 7 miles from his house. Had gauges overnighted to him, too. He and John (spoonLT1355) worked on it all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Sunday they had an extra pair of hands. And me - I got in the way, tried to play gopher and cleaned parts. Loaded it back on the trailer Sunday night - new engine, new gauges totally done.

Down time? One week. (Thanks again, guys!)

Ooooooooo!!

Dark side!!

Young Luke, hunt up an old P/U or 'Burb 454 engine w/ a bad crank and make a 496 out of it!!

I did..

pdq67

PS., but them boob's come first!! He, He!!

heres my opinion, go to these shows and find the swap meet and find a running 350 for a few hundred drop it in, run it till you can fund the engine.

As for the decision to fund the engine or your girls new tata's.............think about it this way, your car will still be in your garage when the shit hits the fan or the money runs out..........will your girl???? Most likely no....sorry but thats the way most women are.