Right now my maverick has a 302 and its tired. I have been collecting parts for a while and started working on the motor today. Here are the parts I have gotten for it mid 80's 351w block 1 piece rear main .040 over stock rods with speed pro hypertectic flattops comp cams extreme energy cam .519 intake .523 lift exhaust c9 heads scorpion 1.6 ratio roller rockers performer intake knockoff. We already had it and it should clear the grabber hood I had it at my uncles and we have the shortblock together. I just gotta get some dial pins for the heads because they got lost. One of the retainers has a crack in it so I plan to get a new one tomorrow. I hope to have the engine together in a few days if I can get the little stuff. I will post some pics of it probaly tomorrow
I got my dowel pins at Napa pretty cheap, it was in an engine finishing kit that also comes with the cam bolt and eccentric. Engine build plan sounds good but im not too sure on the performer intake, when we swapped it out for an RPM in my buddies mustang it made a world of a difference. I ran one and didn't like it a all, i actually sold it this past weekend.
decided to get the machine shop to put a new set of retainers on the heads for safety. If olerodder still has it I plan to buy his victor jr intake
made some more progress. I bought the victor jr intake, had a new set of retainers but on the heads and very glad I did. It turned out 1 or 2 was cracked bad. I also got the short block together. The engine should be assembled soon. We also started on some subframe connectors. The welds need ground down, and I plan to paint them black when finsished. Here is a couple pics. I had to bend one piece of the floor a little put nothing bad. I don't have anyway to bend them so I used what I had.
got the heads and timing cover put on yesterday. Now I got to buy the adjustable pushrod so I can figure out how long of a pushrod I need
took the seats out tonight and plan to start patching a couple bad spots in the floor boards tomorrow. I would have pics but my camera batteries are dead
got the old 302 out and the 351w is on the stand. gonna start on the shocktowers soon. I am hoping to race it this year if I am lucky
I did some more work. Th shocktowers are done and I had to reconstruct the whole battery box area. I had the checkerplate and it was already bent so each boxing plate on the towers is 1 solid piece instead of 2 welded together. Shocktowers drivers side tower passenger side tower battery box area reconstruction gonna start working on getting headers to fit this afternoon
thanks. I bought some valve covers off another forum and had to set them my victor jr and old 780 holley on top for some inspiration
well the headers didn't fit. I put a pinto clip under it and ended up selling the sbf ford stuff. Hopefully plan to do a cam only 5.3 someday. Here it is in its current pathetic shape lol
