Hello all. I live in south Florida with a couple of old trucks and spend most of my time tinkering with them in my shop when I'm not at work. The 1st truck is a pretty much stock '55 Chevy 1st Series pickup I call BillyBob. The second truck is called Deerslayer, a hotrod '37 Chevy utility express (pickup). It is my daily driver and the reason I joined this community. The Deerslayer is powered by a '56 Jimmy 302. The Jimmy has Venola slugs giving it about 9.5 to one compression, a high lift, long duration street cam, and a HEI distributor fashioned from an early chevy s-10 2.8 v6. Machine work includes balanced rotating assemblies and the head is reworked for SBC stainless steel valves. bores are .030 over. It has a homebrew header dumping into a 3" flowmaster. It doesn't sound like a six-banger. Induction is via a 400 cfm Carter AFB on a Clifford water-heated manifold. Best guess is around 230 hp and 300 ftlb. I have put forty thou under the wheels in the 3-1/2 years I've owned this ride and anticipate that I might wear out the engine before I finish my run. With that in mind, I've started preparing a replacement engine to be ready for swapping when I have to pull the Jimmy for rebuilding again. This is where a '54 nailhead from a Roadmaster enters the picture. My projects have always moved at a glacial pace even before the economy tore me a new one. Building a hotrod 322 will take me a long time but there will always be something going on in the BillyBob Shop as the trucks have a small but impatient following of the project blogs. I'm here to learn everything nailhead.
