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Kind of bummed that I won't get to sell you a set of Polyglas for Gramma's car, but I have to admit the car looks great!!! Keep the kids in it!!! Maybe I can convince my wife that I need to get another car so that I can have my son help build the motor!!!!

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Finally got the speedometer working accurately. The car originally had a 2.56 rear gear ratio and I guessed and put in a blue 43 tooth driven gear years ago when I did the 3.42 rear swap. That never helped much.

It turned out that the trans had an 18 tooth green drive gear which makes it impossible to get a driven gear with enough teeth to slow down the speedo. They dont make a 49 tooth driven gear. So I ended up getting a 15 tooth grey drive gear and a yellow 41 tooth driven gear and the speedo now reads exactly right.

So with 20 years of the wrong gear, the 79,000 on the odometer is probably 69,000 actual miles. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

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Celebrated the first day of Spring with a nice drive in Gramma's car. I let my daughter drive the car a little, too. She drives like a gramma: slow, both hands on the wheel, head on a swivel. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

We now officially have 1,000 miles on my son's engine rebuild. The car runs great, though he has a few years before he gets to drive anything other than a lawnmower, (which is what his sister learned how to drive on).

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/t...c/SDC10301.jpg

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/t...c/SDC10300.jpg

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This is one of the things I am looking forward to! I cannot wait to have my son help me out on building a car!!! Enjoy this for all it is worth!!

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You should upload more picture and show us some update [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

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Looks like Gramma's car is being reunited with my Grandpa'a car....

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Here's is Grampa's car's story:

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbthrea..._a_L#Post539151

Re: Gramma's Car: the new project!
 

I'm getting itchy and I need a new project to work on with the boy. (Gotta drag him away from the x-box)

I have been thinking about finding a 455 short block to rebuild and then bolt on the 6X-4 heads and top end parts from the freshly rebuilt, original 350 on it. The 6X-4 heads that came with the 350 are the trick set up for a nice, torquemonster 455.

I already had Cliff Ruggles do the 1972 Quadrajet and Rocky Rotella set up the distributor. The 350 with its (barely 160 horsepower) is just too lame.

I'd throw on a set of the D-port ram air exhaust manifolds and have some fun.

Anyone have a lead on a nice 455 shortblock that needs rebuilding? (the cheaper the better)?

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Great theme ,,,,,,,
Way BETTER STORY of the Kids..... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/burnout.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif[/img]

A 25-35 horsepower
Lawn tractor ????
N02 ?

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Well, I found a nice block here in NJ on craigslist. It's allegedly out of 1971 GTO convertible that some guy swapped an LS engine into. He traded the 455 engine for the LS engine but left the 455 at the machine shop for six years so not much of the engine was left at the shop as you would expect if you abandoned your engine somewhere for 6 years - just the block and some misc pieces remained.

The block was bored .030 over. The current bore is 4.180. Looks like it may have been bored and then used as a door stop at the machine shop for half a decade.

It's a 1971 YC (455/325 horse D-port) engine with two-bolt main caps. Maybe...

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/t...e/IMG_1243.jpg

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/t...e/IMG_1252.jpg

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/t...e/IMG_1251.jpg

It's got a casting date of F050 (June 5, 1970) with a &quot;70&quot; cast on the back of the 9799140 block. Is it a late 1970 cast block from an early 71 455/325 horse car? or it is a late 1970 455/360 horse engine that was the one year only 455HO high compression engine? Feel free to chime in with more info if you have it. It seems to be a weird code/year from what I see on various websites and I don't seem to be the first person to run into this conundrum.

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/t...e/IMG_1250.jpg

The partial VIN looks like 221302638

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/t...IMG_1246_1.jpg

I spent the afternoon chasing every bolt hole and then scrubbing the thing down and finally power washing the cobwebs out. I then used a scotch bright on the cylinders and oiled them down once everything dried out.