Out with the old...in with the new

[LarryH]

Well kind of. A few months after i bought my T-Bucket the 327 developed some issues so last March, since i was working 60 hours a week and to minimize down time, i swapped in a base 190 hp GM GOODWRENCH crate 350. With the Edelbrock Performer intake/Edelbrock 600 cfm Performer carb and Summit HEI it ran pretty good. But i sure missed the slightly choppy idle from the old Crane Fire Ball cam and that gear drive whine.

The plan was to rebuild the 327, put it back in the T-Bucket and put the 350 in my '56 Chevy more door. Since the '56 will be a cruiser it should run okay.

I finally finished up the swap this weekend. It's been bored .60 over, decked, align bored, balanced, Comp Cams 268h cam, lifters, push rods, rocker arms, valve springs, gear drive and early .194 76cc 350 heads. The Edelbrock intake/carb combo and Summit HEI were reused. I like the looks of the 327 much better. I still need to fine tune the timing and do a little adjusting on the carb but it seems to run pretty good and it sure do sound good. The black one is the 350. The orange one (a Chevy V-8 is supposed to be orange) is the 327.

 

[international rat]

Sure looks good! The comp 268h is a good all round cam I've used it in a lot of motors I've built over the years.

 

[busch]

The orange 327 looks much better nice to have it back I bet

 

[hotwheels]

Very nice.......

 

[Gregster]

I know you're glad to have a little thump again [cl

 

[LarryH]

I just got back from the Taco Hell drive through and with the gear whine, choppy idle and little glass pack baffles the poor girl working the window couldn't hear a word i was saying.

Here's some pics i took earlier today. I think it looks much better with the orange engine.