Brandon, Thats exactly what I was attempting to describe. Should be easy to grind the end of a 350 cam to accept it. With a torrington bearing behind it.
I made a couple pallets that stack. I can fit three more blocks and I'm full. It's like a sickness, I love it.
Decided on not continuing using this block. It will get fixed sometime later, but don't want to toss it out with it having the forged pistons, balanced rotating assembly, with arp bolts, file fit rings, etc. Switching gears to my spare block, Autotechs, light rods, lighter maybe stroked crank, my iron heads, internal balance with BHJ balancer, arp fasteners etc. Probably run the same roller cam with solid lifters. It'll get everything it needs. Even the alum heads after they're born......
LOL, Sounds like what I'm doing Mart, minus the stroker part. Any theories on how your dist. gear wore on just 50% of the gear?
Well with misalignment of chain, (my fault) and the worn .058 into blk face, cam was moving back and forth radically and just a matter of time before thinned dist gear teeth took a big crap. Crank gear needed to be shimmed out .058 so it wasn't constantly pulling cam into blk. ** On a second note, and one JW has talked about, one of my roller lifters wouldn't come out of bore. I figured it was nicked on bottom edge due to the cam movement. It wasn't. After pulling pan, found that the pin that keeps the roller in place was working it's way OUT! Took a small brass drift and went to tap on the pin. It moved way too easily, almost hand pressure alone moved the pin back into roller body. The lifter bore is gouged up from that hardened pin also. So......Morels are questionable now in my book!, as JW mentioned, and even Larry heeded Jim's advice. I could have had some real damage if that roller & pin would have got loose! Something else for you guys to ponder......
Tell me something- I couldn't find post determining damage to dist.gear was due to misalignment of timing gears. And showed issue to fellows in shop with theories - bronze gear only -rolle. r can button with roller cam button. I agree vertical alignment is crucial. And had a block with wear in that area. We tried milling face of block. However block had issues with too much drag when turning it over.
Anyway; I'm glad you are trying another block. That's what I want to do. Those lifters. That's definitely an issue with that pin coming out. How does JW call that?
I don't feel so bad with my engine now, but I have no way to control anything the driver does. lol.... and he abuses it.
Those look great. I’ll post a pic tomorrow. I couldn’t find one on my phone. So to hold you over, here’s a picture of my head getting ported.