4th Gen BBC Project by ulakovic22

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Just talked to the builder on the phone and was shooting the **** and while I don't have the balance card obviously he told me the rod weight was 885g and the Pistons/Pins/Rings were 778g. Total bobweight was 2,489g, which he said was fairly light. I don't have a lot of experience with rotating weights so I take his word for it, but wondered what you guys thought.

I'm running 2" primaries and 3.5" X pipe exhaust. 

Yeah the less cubic inches is a small problem, but when comparing a 355 to a 383, which has a higher CID variance, most of the time they make close to the same peak power but the 383 has more area under the curve which I understand will probably be the case here.

I'm excited to have it all come together too so I can keep moving and get everything finished. I had the project stall for a long time waiting on Wiseco to come out with their low dome pistons. Now I'm waiting on McLeod to ship out the freakin' flywheel/clutch assembly so I can get the RA balanced. Once that's done I should hopefully get things moving again with the fuel system, gauges and wiring while I wait for the intake to be ported.

3/28/2008

Fabbing up a fuel system this weekend so I'll have more pictures hopefully next week of a twin walbro setup, fuel lines, rails, regulator, etc.

Going to have to take a break for a while and switch my attention over to my motorcycle. I got tagged this morning by a 5 gallon bucket blowing across the freeway. Have to buy new bodywork now, but at least I can try out a new paint scheme

4/13/2008

Past couple of weeks have been busy, got the twin disk in so I can finally get the engine balanced and also got my dual walbro setup put together thanks to Mighty Mouse. Pulled the rear end out, sanded and painted it. Still have to touch it up and I'm painting the diff cover black with the LG logo in silver. Hopefully everything will be back in the car within the next couple weeks so I can start wiring everything up and finally get it started.

5/14/2008

Got some more work done on the car over the past couple of weeks and it should be going into the car this weekend after I get some new head gaskets. Anyway here is where I'm at right now.