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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #30 on: November 07, 2019, 09:42:24 AM »
204/231

Such a fun thing to do. I love seeing real world testing.
Hit the road pal, My guess was at 205 and 230. :)

Honestly didn't see that!

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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #31 on: November 07, 2019, 09:58:07 AM »
Well since your also from Iowa , you get a pass.
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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #32 on: November 08, 2019, 11:05:27 AM »
Guys, I found something that may affect your guesses and you can change your minds up until next Thursday. 

One cylinder head was a C6AE-R and the other one was a C8AE-H....

Block is a C6ME-A.   I don't that doesn't affect anything, but just documenting it.  I put the engine on an engine stand today.  I'm still not 100% on my back and didn't feel like trying to flip an engine back over, so I looked briefly for crank cast numbers and didn't find any, so I put a screwdriver down the plug hole and measured the stroke.  It's indeed 3.5". 

The pan only had a hand full of bolts in it, so I went ahead and dropped it.  Glad I did, because the pickup bolts were loose.  The previous owner had swapped pans and he didn't tighten the pickup bolts.  I also quickly put a socket on some rod bolts and didn't find any loose ones. 

Oil in the filter looked clean.  It had a new rotor, carb looks pretty new.  Plugs looked really good.  Rolling it over by hand, it "hissed" at me with the plugs in and when I filled it with new oil and primed the pump, the pump fought back against me pretty good. 

Under the valve covers was a different story......all sludged up as you would expect, but no broken rocker arms, springs, or bent pushrods. 

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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #33 on: November 08, 2019, 11:12:26 AM »








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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #34 on: November 08, 2019, 11:28:24 AM »
208 before
228 after

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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #35 on: November 08, 2019, 11:56:15 AM »
167
199
The timing set will be a crap shoot. Hopefully the plastic gear has been upgraded.
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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #36 on: November 08, 2019, 12:12:06 PM »
I bolted a pump block off plate on and checked the timing set out.  The factory set has been replaced but there is a good bit of slack.
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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #37 on: November 08, 2019, 12:39:25 PM »
I am betting that the mileage is not 80K, but 180K from the looks of things and head swaps.  I would not waste any time or money on those heads, but go directly to rebuilding short block after the dyno session,  and add the TFS heads and intake, etc.  Joe-JDC
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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #38 on: November 08, 2019, 01:50:40 PM »
Ugly but it will run, might check pushrod length tho. At least in the 2 or 3 junkers I did some work on they where too long. Arguably they where running that way for years but I still corrected it.

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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #39 on: November 08, 2019, 02:18:34 PM »
I bolted a pump block off plate on and checked the timing set out.  The factory set has been replaced but there is a good bit of slack.
Excellent. That will move the power band up just a tick. BTW, Good luck in getting those exhaust manifolds off. Just C clamp or vise grip the top header bolts.
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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #40 on: November 08, 2019, 03:52:47 PM »
164

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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #41 on: November 09, 2019, 08:27:18 AM »
187 before, 215 after

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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #42 on: November 11, 2019, 04:21:10 PM »
155 before, 191 after

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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #43 on: November 11, 2019, 04:49:52 PM »
137 / 159

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Re: Another guess the horsepower to throw in the mix......
« Reply #44 on: November 12, 2019, 12:36:56 AM »
220 before, 238 w/ by intake
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