New here. Follow my 1970 350 build

I used vht vinyl die back in 2010 to die brown door panels black. It worked amazingly well. That was on my 71 skylark.

 

Maybe shoe polish, don't know if it's available in the right shade of green though...

You could maybe try clear shoe polish?

 

It's all in the prep work.

 

Porting pics

 

Nice project, man! Way to go

 

Port work is completed

 

spent all afternoon and evening cleaning gasket surfaces for the oil pan, block, timing cover etc. Getting closer. Heads should be done next week. I wont waste anytime at all getting it back together. Cant wait.

 

Im currently painting the engine bay gloss black. Probably should have went with satin. The gloss brought out factory runs on the firewall that I hadn't noticed before.

 

heads are done. Went a little over budget but they are gonna be some good performers. When I asked The Machinist if he thought I would pick up at least 25 horsepower with these heads he said "oh yeah easy" hope to get it painted tonight. I need torque specs for oil pan, timing cover, water pump, and intake. Any links to torque specs?

 

Motor is in. Hopefully I'll be driving it by Christmas. Just waiting on a few miscellaneous parts.

 

LMAO Mine says the same, it means 4

 

everything went extremely well, break in went good, nothing leaks, have good vacuum but I under carbed the motor big time. Going to be getting a jetting and tuning kit from Edelbrock to see if I can wake this baby up. Also going to go with some better flowing mufflers. As of right now the low end power is a little worse than my stock two-barrel, mid-range power is way better, top end power it seems as if it's starving for fuel so I don't know how the top end actually performs yet.

 

The SP3 likes a double pumper carb

 

Can you link me up to a carburetor like a Summit or jegs version that's more affordable? I'm going to call Edelbrock today and see if there's anything I can do to this 650 CFM AVS.

 

Larger than 650cfm in most cases.

 

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Check Summits website, don’t listen to the tech guys either, he’ll try and sell you a 600 cfm carb, tell them to “F” off.
You want AT LEAST 750 cfm, I went 850.
Make sure it’s a mechanical secondary, like the Q -Jet is, but you need the secondary squirter, (double pumper)
This is mine

 

You're choke ever give you problems?

 

Is there any amount of jetting I can do to the 650 CFM Edelbrock to get it to flow right? It is an air valve secondary which I believe Works more like a mechanical than a vacuum

 

My buddy is going to bring over a tuned 750 CFM carburetor for me to try