Dredging this one back up. Life got in the way with distractions so this went on the back burner for awhile. Bought an F100 and a Fairlane, got two new puppies...no time for an old race motor.
Bringing it up to speed, I got the pistons knurled at another shop, rods resized with ARP bolts, and after getting the heads back decided it needed to run a hydraulic roller as the takeoff TFS springs had ~420lbs open pressure as I recall. Happened to have a mike jones cam I wasn't using with 235/239 .612/.600 that should match the intent pretty well. Yep, roller and morels in a pile of crap, but oh well. Heads flow 295cfm @ .600 so if this thing actually stays in one piece, it could make some power. Thinking it should peak around 6200-6300 with this cam? Will be running a ported street dominator.
It was great walking the old man through it last weekend, they just slammed them together back in the day so he's never used a mic or a dial indicator. Not that I'm an expert as I'm just learning as well. Bottom end is buttoned up, deck clearance measured at .015-.025, cam degreed in perfectly at 108ICL on a 112. I'm a little worried about PtoV, have a pushrod checker coming in. I made one that I used on my 390 but this setup is taller and I barely had any thread engagement, decided to try it anyway and it crumpled the checker once I got a little lift going. The valves in the old combo must've hit the cylinders as both intake and exhaust sides have been clearanced. Intake side was done with a die grinder or hand file, really ratty, but the exhaust side they did some sort of milling to make the notches, although they're at different depths. Just another time I asked the old man exactly how much beer they drank when working on this thing. I mocked it up and had .720" before the exhaust valve hit on the shallowest relief, without a head gasket, so think it'll be ok.
I have stock adjustable rockers, I have a set of POP end supports on the way but was just going to run stock inner stands and shafts, assume it'll be alright. Melling pump, Comp timing chain were found on the parts pile...and I get to finally use the ARP pump drive that I've had in the toolbox for 20yrs for some unknown reason.
The "sins" in this engine keep mounting but if it holds together that'll be part of the fun. .050 and .040 bores, pitted bores, knurled pistons, 332 FE pistons, LeMans rods that looks like they were lightened by one of my dad's buddies after his first six pack of the night, .025 deck clearance, valve notches all over the place...we'll see how it goes