TheSkrich

I forgot one of the funniest parts, The guy I bought the motor from Dan came over to look at it tuesday because he couldn't beleive it was blown. bahaaahaa Anyways he's lookin at it and he goes into a ramble of something like this:"" Thats a good crank, its a Callies, those sunsab*****s took my design. you go over there to callies and you look at the wall and they got my blueprints hanging there. Their making millions off me. Ya see i got the idea from the imports they use a wide {sumfin mumble mumble} so i thought i can do that and started taking measurments of the block and etc. and desighned this one. blah blah thats how all those imorts make more power than the V8's.""" I just kind of looked at him in amazement that he could be so stupid. I told him Gee I always thought they made their power from massive amounts of boost. Then he went into the same ramble. If I had known this guy was such an UnStAbLe liar i never would have bought anything off of him

Just now notices the number on the crank and looked it up Years Casting CID Material Journal Rmain Seal Applications 1970-80 3951529 400 cast XL mns two 3.76" stroke, ext. bal.

jt1: Yes it has the hole drilled through the first throw. With my lack of experience with SBC's I thought that it was like that from being balanced. Are there normally holes drilled into the counterweights, Like so You guys vewy funay, make me raff

Jt1, Magnum Rockwilder: These numbers are probably off because of the crude way I measured. The bore I used a tape measureand got, 4-3/16". I just eyeballed it on a Outside only dial caliper and got 4.165. As for the stroke u just turned it over to what looked like BDC and used a peice of dowel rod, then marked it with a razorblade flat on the deck and cut it off and measured that with the dial caliper and got 3.780" dr_hunt: The parting line on the rear of the crank and first throw is the small 1/8" line indicating it is a defenitly a cast crank{as if the clock stamp didn't give that away}. PROJECTRB240SX: Among many other lies I was told the motor has not been sleeved. As for selling it The motor is going back to the man i bought it from. I am kinda worried about him getting the money back to me. quicker240: It had just regular old hydraulics in it. As for keeping it for the parts, i don't want to because i was supposed to be buying a motor that was ready to run, and the guy lied and basically i wont tolerate being the schmuck that bought into his scam. So he's getting his motor back and I'm getting my money back. No gain No loss. Thanks for the replies everyone!

I was hoping some of you fellas would recognize what the crank and rods are cuz I dont know. The crank has the marking E58 on it. I'll check the bore and stroke tomorow, I just got out of the shower and I'm to clean and purty to go out in the shop. LOL.

"The only reason I took it out was because the car was sold" and it was making large amounts of noise and on its way to tieng up

Too good to be true Got it home and popped the heads off and found it had a chipped piston. I turned the motor over to get a look at the cylinder wall to see if there was any damage and found a 1" strip of the cylinder wall shoved out. My guess is he didnt run high enough octane, detonated and busted the piston, then the chunk from the piston raised all kinds of hell. http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?username=theskrich&x=0&y=0 And yes I am getting my money back

Allright the motors mine. I talked to the guy and he said I can pick it up monday, Pictures will follow Thanks jap tin. I had always heard that 437 was the max on a sbc so when he told me 448 i was kinda skeptical if he had done his math right. He told me to get that kinda cubes he had to have the crank lathed down and notches cut in the cylinder walls for rod clearance,

well thanks for the info fellas. as soon as i get the motor {probably a week or so} i'll take some pics of it and figure out all the specifics ie. cam duration bore stroke blah blah and maybe someone will feel up to doing a desktop dyno for me. ill throw in some pics of the tires too. 325-50-15 et street radials mounted on 12" weld pro stars Well that is if im able to figure out how to post them. dont seem to hard.

i was going to but i think it will be allright. another thing i forgot. the crank has been knife edged and balanced. i was told there was 13 hours that went into ballancing it. also i would imagine it to be a custom crank to get 448 ci out of a 400 sb

dr_hunt thanks for the reply, i left out some parts in my haste to post. its a complete engine ready to run minus starter and dizzy, also has edelbrock performer intake, and 5800 dollars worth of receipts for motor work and parts

Ok first of all is 448 ci possible from a smallblock¿ 2nd hows this deal sound¿ I was sitting over at my friend Tim's and we was talking about the datsun as always. He was asking me how the fabrication was coming along. and i said i still needed to find a good sbc, it just so happened that his wifes brother suddenly decided he was a ford man and was getting rid of everything chevy and offered the motor and whatever else chevy he has laying around the shop to Tim for $900, The information i was given is: 5140 Steel crank comp cam .572/610 lift 12.4:1 Iron eagle rotating assembly: 6 in rods Heads: 2.05 1.68 bowtie 64cc; 220cc angle plug Port & Polish triple valve spring full roller rocker; guide plated line bored/ deck shaved blue printed Electric waterpump Carb is a holley worked over to 930 Every cylinder has been sleeved Motor has never been ran Any idea on what kinda power something like that can make reliably?

thanks for the replay. Which old video are you refering to?

I just viewed the old post for the official hybridz video but it didn't say what the final outcome was. Is the video complete? If so does anyone have a link were it can be downloaded from.