It's back running


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By famdoc3 - 13 Years Ago
So over the winter I removed and sold a perfectly running recently rebuilt 292 from my 57 tbird.  You might ask why?  My wife didn't because she knows I'm insane.  For those of you who have never had the pleasure of working on a t'bird, there is much less clearance and room than the passenger cars or trucks.  I then set out to build my new motor an .80 over (yes I soniced first) what was the first y-block I ever rebuilt a .60 over 56 merc block from back in 1973.  I had spun #4 rod bearing a few years ago.  I had already had the crank re-done with hard chrome journals just waiting to get back into the car.  Waited for my Egge .80 overs and they came.  Machine shop cleaned and tanked, isky 300 series cam, lifters, comp cams beehives, new rocker arms and shafts, etc, etc, etc.  My other posts describe wiping out my new cam bearings with moly lube and having to pull the motor again.  To make a long cranky story short, it's now running with my twin throttle body fuel injection.  You can obviously feel the torque difference from the added nearly 30 cubic inches.  I don't know if it was a wise use of the time, money and sweat, but it seems worth while to me on a warm summer day.  Just the sound of a somewhat stout Y-block should make any real man swoon.  Drove it to work with the top down yesterday and am still picking the bugs out of my teeth.  MIKE 
By bird55 - 13 Years Ago
Sounds good, any pics or video?
By glrbird - 13 Years Ago
I don't know if it was a wise use of the time, money and sweat, but it seems worth while to me on a warm summer day. 

Mike if it makes you smile enough to have bugs in you teeth, then its worth it.

By BFOOTER03 - 13 Years Ago
Mike, you only live once so do what makes you smile adn enjoy the ride.BigGrin
By lowrider - 13 Years Ago
You cant take it with you Mike, so anything you have left send some my way.
By yehaabill - 13 Years Ago
Y-Guy Runn'n:    Fill us in on the throttle body injection etc.....

                                         Thx,
                                         Bill

By famdoc3 - 13 Years Ago
Check out my new thread, "fuel injected y-block.  MIKE