Today was swap engine day. Got to Gary’s and he had the engine pulled out of its tomb so that I could see it. It was rough. Gary has not done any work on it yet as he’s been busy on the body. He had some build sheets that came with it but they are a bit confusing. More on that later. Looks like all the work was done 40 years ago and the engine looks that old. It has a Streetmaster on it and adjustable rockers. The biggest thing is one of the heads has a broken exhaust ear. But Gary has by chance another N head that he will dig out. I dropped by a really great welders shop on the way home and he didn’t want to touch it. Said there were a couple guys in town that used to weld iron but one has passed and one is retired.
So the good thing is that I’m not screwing up a good CJ no matter what I do to this thing. The bad is that I can’t just clean it and run it.
I’ll start a new thread on the new CJ.
But meanwhile here’s a couple CJs sitting next to each other.
Oh the build sheets. One is an actual build sheet for a 68 fastback ram air 428 that I’m assuming is a Shelby. Pic below.
There are others that just say 428 SCJ Ford. It feels like different cars.
I’ll get into them more in the new thread.
Oh, do any of you Canadien know a place called Centennial Parts in Ottawa or Leicestor Enginneering in prolly the same area.
