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I meant Grenader engine, building anything ferd is just asking for trouble.A SBC in a Ford Granada ?
Some of those Granada's came with 9 in. Rears.....
Worth more than the car even back in the day.
Worth more than the car even back in the day.
I heard that, will be following.
As soon when it warms up outside I will get some pictures of all the "junk parts" I am going to use for this project.
So here we go. 1st. up is .030 4 bolt main 355 SBC. I got a .010 cast crank and forged pistons on rods with 2 new oil pumps and bunch of other goodies for $150. Last week I scored a set of 062 Vortec's with 2.02/1.6 valves, screw in studs, Scorpion roller rockers, a real nice hyd roller cam, Air Gap and a pair of chrome tall aluminum ball milled valve covers for $350. I ordered new rinds and bearings plus all the gaskets I need to get this one done. Was going to put my Dart 49cc heads on this but with the price of race fuel I am going with the Vortec's. I might put one of the new $33 tunnel rams on this one and I will have less than 1K into this engine complete. Granader 2.0 will get worked on after this one is done. Pictures coming soon.
Nice! I used to follow the magazine budget builds, but they always cheated their budget and went well beyond 3x that amount. Blocks are getting scarce, 10 years back a good 4.0 bore sbc could be had for $100.
Derek69SS
Veteran Member
what are they? Any good 327s?
350's
Where is here?
kmakar
Janitor
Minnisnowtta.
All the way to the end of the road, about 280 miles for you.
Well hell, that just down the road and around the corner from me
Did not know we both live in the same state.
Looks like I have to put the one 355 on hold as I got sticker shock this week on what machine shops want for their work these days. Seems like they think they are P/S team engine builders. The one guy I have worked with for the last few years wanted almost $1000 for a bore, hone with deck plates and resurfacing the decks to square them up I called this other machine shop who I know id bad just to see what they charged and he was $100 more than the other guy, but I would not do any with with them after seeing my friends get ripped off by these clowns. So thinks will sit for a while.
I called this other machine shop who I know id bad just to see what they charged and he was $100 more than the other guy, but I would not do any with with them after seeing my friends get ripped off by these clowns. So thinks will sit for a while.