374 Olds 350 stroker build

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Christmas in July!
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Oh and I can use these studs with these rocker arms. Notice how much shorter the Harland Sharp Polylocks are than the Comp Polylocks. Here is the cam card, the cam is right.
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A pic of the outside of the Canton Pan, really well made.
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Good thing I checked the pistons and rods. I thought when the pins are floating they just go into the rods. They do not fit as is, the small end needs honed to fit the pin. Apparently this is the norm according to Mark. The rods look to be around 800 grams but this little scale is acting goofy.
 
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Well after a long 11 hour day of fun at work, I went looking for my other balancer off the 403 to replace old denty. Found it, blasted off the Duplicolor with aluminum oxide and painted with a couple of coats of VHT Black Metallic Engine Enamel. I also removed 20 pounds in the form of the removal of the POS R4 with a delete pulley.
 

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I normally cook with a different pan 😂😂
 
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My Wife dropped off Mahle Pistons and Molnar rods at the machine shop to have rods honed fit to the pins, now they can weigh for balancing, along with a balancer and flex plate. Incase they want it but should not need it for internal balancing. Will see if they can complete it before the end of the year. Oh, I ordered an Edelbrock top end for a fair price off Ebay to get the .042" thick head gaskets. Well, they are no longer the white head gaskets, they are now standard blue Felpro .041" head gaskets, fine, will give me .038" quench. The valve cover gaskets look to be the same material as heavy duty Felpro pan gaskets, latex covered cork without the rigid core, at least not that I could feel. Maybe Mr Gasket Ultraseal?The intake gaskets are the nice rubber bead around the ports and the exhaust gaskets a fiber material. Not a bad price with the free shipping through Amazon. I also received the carb cleaning brushes, they should work quite nicely in the block passages.
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Oh and it looks like all clearances will end up around .0025", piston to wall, the Mahle clearance at a 4.100" bore. I also told the machine shop I wanted .0022 to .0025" rods and .0025 to .0028" main clearances. It should be nice and quiet with no cold piston rattle and great oil pressure hot and cold with 5 or 10W30 engine oil.
 
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Talked to the machine shop again today, supposedly going to try to grind the crank this week. Katherine dropped off the pistons and rods on Thursday. She got there, the doors were locked. She saw an employee at the side door and gave him the parts. He said they were there, maybe up front. I said good, don't loose them, that is $1250 US in pistons and connecting rods. I mentioned again the pins need honed to fit. If they do these two things, only balancing left.
 
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