love the car,i have a factory black 66 comet caliente ,mine came with a white vinyl top but i removed it.factory 390 4 speed y code,im on my 4th engine,428 bbm heads,hs rockers,hooker comps.i have owned it 43 years.nos if needed

if i keep the v6 i may find a s10 already set up for this engine,mounts and all are on the little v6,looks like a 750 or 850 double pumper on it and a msd dist,my neighbor built stout engines,i remember hearing the race car start up when i was a boy,you could hear it for miles away. harry gant drove one of his cars one time at bristol and harry told my neighbor that his car ran as good as anyone there but harry said it needed to be set up,it was hard to handle. my neighbors were the applegates,butch,Alan,and there dad bill.they raced mostly short tracks like kingsport,but every year they would go to bristol to try and qualify,they didnt run up front much,but they were just average guys racing on the weekend.

i think the quick fuel 950 q series has bigger ventures and flows as advertised.

IM SORRY,i misled everyone,i bought the engine just seeing it covered up in the corner of the garage with no lighting or glass windows.when i picked it up yesterday and got a good look at it,someone had said buick, but its a chevy v6 nascar engine,

Sounds like a Stage II Buick V6.  Snatch it up, find a mid 80's Camaro, drop it in and embarrass the heck out of all the 350 fanboys.  Stage II's have been known to make ridiculous (1500+ HP) power with the right turbo and 2+ HP/ci in NA form is also quite doable.

it looks like the one in the pic,it even has the flat top intake and external oil pump

Quote from: fryedaddy on June 04, 2025, 01:08:56 AM

i dont care much about the video or u.t. but did you guys know he used to work for a big time race program that ran sohc engines back in the day!

Ok but what did he do, build motors or clean parts ? 

i dont know what his job was but im just saying im surprised he was bad mouthing them after working with them years ago,every engine has its quirks,sbc-stupid dist in the back etc

im hoping one day i can get one of the top Fe engine builders in the world to build me a max effort street race engine. no need to mention any names we all know who they are!

Like the big dummy i am,i bought a set of bbm heads and i thought i would use the stock rocker bolts.they were too long and they busted into the runners and made my engine suck oil through these holes and smoke. funny thing is when i tightened the rocker bolts down i did not feel them bust through at the bottom. the resistance of the valve springs,the tension of them tightening down made it hard to tell i busted through.the hole it made was the same diameter as the bolt and when i took it apart i found the little pieces it punched out and they were no thicker than a dime-thin area. that is why i did not know the bolts busted through. i need to take them back off and get them repaired,but for now i used silicone on the bolts to stop the leak. that might be why trick flow heads use thicker rocker pads so this wont happen to dummies like ME.