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Chevy small block people?

warDialer

warDialer

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I recently inherited a very sweet ride running a '66 Chevy 327. Everything looks like new ( zero rust, zero corrosion, clean oil ), except the car hasn't been started in 25 years. I'm looking to link up with some folks who know their way around these engines, or even better, make a few bucks helping me out.

Any small block lovers out there?
 
warDialer said:
I recently inherited a very sweet ride running a '66 Chevy 327. Everything looks like new ( zero rust, zero corrosion, clean oil ), except the car hasn't been started in 25 years. I'm looking to link up with some folks who know their way around these engines, or even better, make a few bucks helping me out.

Any small block lovers out there?
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Put it in a car, slap a carb on it (or rebuild the carb that is on it), pull the coil wire, crank it over to get oil pressure, put the oil wire back on, and see what happens. That's probably the easiest way to see what shape the motor is in!
 
warDialer said:
I recently inherited a very sweet ride running a '66 Chevy 327. Everything looks like new ( zero rust, zero corrosion, clean oil ), except the car hasn't been started in 25 years. I'm looking to link up with some folks who know their way around these engines, or even better, make a few bucks helping me out.

Any small block lovers out there?
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66 chevy what?

i'd PM phaedrus, he's gotten a good education running a small block in his camaro dirt track car.... and maybe therobsj as he's a corvette junkie and a pro mechanic

you need to confirm the engine isn't siezed before trying to start it. put a breaker bar on the crankshaft pulley and see if you can turn it over. i suspect not... after that

first thing i'd do is remove spark plugs, squirt some pb blaster/marvel mystery oil/kroil in the cylinders and let it sit for a day. do it a few times and see if you can free it up.

if it unsticks, change all the fluids (oil, trans, coolant, rear end), check the ignition system (might need new points, can swap that out for a pertronics electronic unit if you want) and hook up a test gas can to the carb you might get lucky.

if it fires, clean the carb, clean the fuel tank and lines check the brakes and bearings.... then drive it
 
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spray atf and acetone through the spark plug holes and soak overnight. then see if it rotates by hand.

prime the oil pump using a drill and appropriate bit. I forget if chevy pumps are driven by dist gear like SBFs are.
 
I can still rattle off the cam specs of my first chevy, but not even the name of my first girlfriend. :dunno

It's a wide sea of knowledge and uses so we need details like planned usage and...oh yea...SOME FRIGGIN PICS!!!

And tell us how much money you got to spend. :teeth
 
1967 Excalibur SS Doorless, 327 350hp, 4sp manual, 1 of 90 made.

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liar! you said it was a corvette.

early small block chebby is an early small block chebby... should be easy to resurrect
 
Ah...I see - using the existing motor.

What he said.
fast4d said:
spray atf and acetone through the spark plug holes and soak overnight. then see if it rotates by hand.

prime the oil pump using a drill and appropriate bit. I forget if chevy pumps are driven by dist gear like SBFs are.
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Any decent mechanic will get you up and running (if possible), and certainly a willing party will show up soon.

Nice ride:thumbup
 
auntiebling said:
liar! you said it was a corvette.

early small block chebby is an early small block chebby... should be easy to resurrect
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Totally, a Chevy 327 is a Chevy 327, but one of the selling points of this car was that it used the same engine configuration as the Corvette used. Basically a car that looks like a 1927 Mercedes and can drop 350hp at a green light. A total wolf in black sheeps clothing.
 
warDialer said:
Totally, a Chevy 327 is a Chevy 327, but one of the selling points of this car was that it used the same engine configuration as the Corvette used. Basically a car that looks like a 1927 Mercedes and can drop 350hp at a green light. A total wolf in black sheeps clothing.
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it's a fun car don't take this as an attack... but it only looks like a 1927 mercedes to someone that has no idea what a car from the 20s looks like. i admit, that's the majority of the population. i recall when you first posted this thing, surprised it's taken you this long to get it going... but then again i have projects in my garage that have languished longer

btw, you should be able to pull the numbers off the block and figure out what approximately, if not exactly, that motor started life motivating
 
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auntiebling said:
it's a fun car don't take this as an attack... but it only looks like a 1927 mercedes to someone that has no idea what a car from the 20s looks like. i admit, that's the majority of the population. i recall when you first posted this thing, surprised it's taken you this long to get it going... but then again i have projects in my garage that have languished longer

btw, you should be able to pull the numbers off the block and figure out what approximately, if not exactly, that motor started life motivating
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Totally. It's really not a car I would have thought about wanting, but it came into my life in an unexpected way that made it possible. Excalibur's have always been love/hate cars. This is the only model that I find appealing, the later models got really garish and looked like something Rod Stewart would ( and did ) drive.

As for lagging on starting it, I'm totally guilty. Work, motorcycles, guns, video games, and women all take a lot of time and resources, and only now am I really getting around to taking this on and fully committing to it. I've also been a bit hesitant to dive in because I know from my time owning a classic motorcycle how involved and expensive it gets, and quick!
 
warDialer said:
Totally. It's really not a car I would have thought about wanting, but it came into my life in an unexpected way that made it possible. Excalibur's have always been love/hate cars. This is the only model that I find appealing, the later models got really garish and looked like something Rod Stewart would ( and did ) drive.

As for lagging on starting it, I'm totally guilty. Work, motorcycles, guns, video games, and women all take a lot of time and resources, and only now am I really getting around to taking this on and fully committing to it. I've also been a bit hesitant to dive in because I know from my time owning a classic motorcycle how involved and expensive it gets, and quick!
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It shouldn't take too much to get the car running. Rebuild the carb, flush the engine, refill and get cranking. From then on, leaking gaskets can be replaced. Hope you have a lube gun. I bet there are dozens of fittings just waiting to be greased.
 
72SBC said:
See name.


I could have swore you posted this car in another thread.
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The name says it all :thumbup

I did post maybe 6 or 8 months back, but didn't get the answers I needed. This thread has been much more fruitful.
 
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