302 Rebuild

[byroncobra]

Looks great Geof.

Mine's back from Pete and now in the paintshop having a few minor issues touched up.......should be home for Christmas.I only drove it around the block then onto the trailer but it was breathing beautifully, nice lumpy idle. don't need 1st or 2nd gear though :-0. Talk about torque!!

I'm sure Peter was glad to see it out of the shed though.

There were a FEW challenges:

The clown (ie me) that wired it overlooked a few things... nothing that a replacement ECU couldn't fix, so after a 2 week wait the replacement was faulty too:-(

Then the harmonic balancer and water pump were a bit sus, so out they went.

Then the Trickflo manifolds wouldn't fit....well, they did.....but the bonnet didn't close! (Trickflo assured me they are the same height as original. Didn't mention WIDTH though) So it was either drop the engine height, shave way too much off the upper and lower manifolds or cut a bigger hole in the bonnet. Anyway, we decided the Massflow conversion needs to fast-tracked so now the std Ford manifold stays.

So, it won't be long know and there'll be another Trick/Mass Flo combo.

Go the FORDS!!