'66 Le Mans...keeping the Pontiac Spirit alive

[WSSix]

Looking good, Peter. Good luck with the car and the coming semester.

[PBarkley]

Originally Posted by WSSix

Looking good, Peter. Good luck with the car and the coming semester.

Thanks, Trey. I'm definitely gonna be busy, but it'll just mean more parts hoarding in the meantime, haha.

[Justin@EntropyRad]

Will be watching where it goes..is that an S13 in your avatar?

[PBarkley]

Originally Posted by Justin@EntropyRad

Will be watching where it goes..is that an S13 in your avatar?

Yup...my old 240SX.



'91 model, swapped in a CA18 that had a Forced Performance 20G hybrid turbo and some headwork. She wasn't the most polished 240 out there, but she was very well rounded. I still miss it at times...it was good for harassing most of the Mustangs and Camaros I came across on the street, haha.

Also, I might be shooting you a PM around the time I get the engine back in the LeMans. I think I saw you posting somewhere on YB.com and I checked out y'all's website, and I'm definitely gonna need a new radiator for the car.

[PBarkley]

Another quick update during my Thanksgiving break...finals are next week, and then I've got plenty of work to catch up on with the car.

Had to chase out several holes for the ARP head studs, but they went in smoothly and everything is torqued down with fresh Cometic MLS gaskets. Also got the timing cover, water pump and backing plate installed, and went ahead and threw on the fuel pump and harmonic balancer.







Also picked up the headers, ended up going with Doug's full length ceramics.



Rockers arrived the day before Thanksgiving, had my pushrod checker waiting on standby and verified the lengths for the new pushrods immediately. I'm still waiting on my guy to finish with the carb rebuild, and I've also gotta source the hardware to install the oil pump and the windage tray before I can throw the pan back on. The goal is to get the engine broken in on the engine dyno, mated to the transmission and in the car before I go back school on 15Jan.

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving, and I hope the space under y'all's Christmas trees is overflowing with new parts, haha.

[Panteracer]

Peter,
Good to see another Pontiac with a Poncho motor

Bob

[Gscherer78ta]

Did you check those chambers for Volume? The info I have and the chambers I measured on my #46 heads says they are 73cc chambers and when I checked them I got 72cc. Mine had press in rockers as well which I drilled and taped for screw in and I enlarged the exhaust valve to 1.77 on my 400 build.

[PBarkley]

Originally Posted by Panteracer

Peter,
Good to see another Pontiac with a Poncho motor

Bob

Sorry I missed this the other day, haha.

I've caught flak from a number of people saying "just go LSx blah blah blah" but I think that would kinda ruin the point of the car.

Hell, I'll go with an IAII block before I go LS in this car.