Ok, so they aren't all just repairs. Might as well do some upgrading as well.
Some time ago, I spun a bearing in the 500 cadillac. The engine was thrown in quickly in a vain attempt to make it to Blazer Bash, which ended up not happening due to other problems with the blazer.
Well, it's time to rectify that ailing engine situation.
Coonie's Racing Engines has started in on the heads. Cadillac 902's, which are the closed chamber heads. So far they have been, disassembled, cleaned, crack checked and surfaced. Soon as the valves show up, forward progress will continue. We're installing 2.19" Intakes and 1.84" Exhaust valves. Cadillac big blocks suffer from a poor valve train so we sourced a set of Roller rockers and larger push rods from Potter.
There'll be lots of port work to do. And soon as I can, I'll get some more pictures posted up.
This go round, we're gona try playing around with some fuel injection. I think we have a pretty decent game plan. Unfortunately, I'm not all teched up on fuel injection so I'll be relying on some good friends and some good advice along the way.
One thing that bugged me right away was distributor options. A nice long chat with Phillip Chacon at MSD yielded this little baby. MSD custom built this distributor for me. As far as I know this is a one of a kind. There is no vaccum or mechanical advance. All the timing is handled by the computer. There is some phasing adjustment inside though. Ignition module is remotely mounted to get it out of the hot engine bay.
More to come!
Some time ago, I spun a bearing in the 500 cadillac. The engine was thrown in quickly in a vain attempt to make it to Blazer Bash, which ended up not happening due to other problems with the blazer.
Well, it's time to rectify that ailing engine situation.
Coonie's Racing Engines has started in on the heads. Cadillac 902's, which are the closed chamber heads. So far they have been, disassembled, cleaned, crack checked and surfaced. Soon as the valves show up, forward progress will continue. We're installing 2.19" Intakes and 1.84" Exhaust valves. Cadillac big blocks suffer from a poor valve train so we sourced a set of Roller rockers and larger push rods from Potter.
There'll be lots of port work to do. And soon as I can, I'll get some more pictures posted up.
This go round, we're gona try playing around with some fuel injection. I think we have a pretty decent game plan. Unfortunately, I'm not all teched up on fuel injection so I'll be relying on some good friends and some good advice along the way.
One thing that bugged me right away was distributor options. A nice long chat with Phillip Chacon at MSD yielded this little baby. MSD custom built this distributor for me. As far as I know this is a one of a kind. There is no vaccum or mechanical advance. All the timing is handled by the computer. There is some phasing adjustment inside though. Ignition module is remotely mounted to get it out of the hot engine bay.
More to come!
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