scbird1 said:
One last thought, What dose the car look like? Is it going to be worth keeping or are you going to get rid of it in the near future? A full rebuild will costabout 3k, depending on where you get your crank because a new one from Ford is about $1200. to $1300 new. A reground will be a lot less but for a performance standpoint most dont like the reground. Mabe a short block, well prices vary but take a long look at what you have and what you want out of it. Maybe your like me you just love the car well you can`t put a price on love now can you.
I got the car from a kid (spoiled) who wanted an old hot rod, the kid had the car for 1 month and had a very nice paint job done (not mint but a 90 out of 100) no dents no dings the car looks great for it's age.
Next the kid puts a radio in the car, drives the car for 3 or 4 weeks and blows the H/G. Daddy tells kid "take this shiny new honda, and forget that car"
I approach the kid and offer him $500, kid cries about paint and radio. I tell kid to take the stinkin radio and rip it out of the car, he does and I get the car at night.
Next morning I wake up very excited about my new baby, and I look in the passenger window and find out that the kid followed my instructions and ripped the radio out (through the side of the enclosure), I never noticed when I picked it up.
The car had been adult owned before this kid, and by the looks of it the motor has a rebuild at some point, so for now I'm going to take my heads and have a valve job done and some porting with as little milling as possible.
1 underdrive pullies
2 overdrive S/C pully
3 mpfmic with push fan
4 scp cool air intake
5 BHG dampener
6 Mike 38sc's radiator
I have all this stuff either in my posession or ordered, I also have a low miles back up motor lined up, so if worse comes to worse, I'll blow it up and start over, and since all this stuff is bolt on it can be reused. Ans as I mentioned earlier the car still looks pretty hot, so I'll stick with it.
-Matt