308 V12 conversion begins

With you helping I'd never finish this thing

 

I got the bores done in side 2 today, now just the water jackests left to cut. It's getting there.

 

Sorry....how about a couple shots of it now that's all done?
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Thanks!

if I had just left the original head on the stupid thing..........

 

I'll get there.....it's just going to take about a year longer than the 6 months I planned

There's a lot of “while I'm at it" it is going on here too which doesn’t help matters any.

The latest is the Titanium connecting rods. I need the rods because I’m buying cams due to the firing order issue, and as long as I’m getting cams I might as well get good ones. The good cams will require some head work to install them. And as long as I’m doing head work I might as well correct the flow too. And once I correct the flow there will be enough air to make power to around 9000 rpm. And reving to 9000 rpm (or maybe a little more) requires better rods and as long as I’m getting better rods I might as well have titanium to keep the weight and therefore block and crank loads down. It’s a viscous cycle….but this car is going to sound SOOOO good.

A fellow f-chatter was kind enough to donate 6 355 rods he had lying around to the cause, now I just need to find 6 more to match. They are weight code "G" if anybody knows of any.

 

That's what I keep telling Lana as I point to the family room.....and every time she smacks me in the head.

 

I could just dump 6 out each side in front of each rear wheel.....or 12 supertraps out the back maybe

 

Kind of a boring night. I decided to take the die grinder and clean up the water and oil return passages where I coldn't get with the milling cutter. Then nap time only lasted an hour so I was about 1 hour short of finishing up. Tomorrow.

I spent the day calling around to see who has what for weight code rods trying to figureout how to end up with 12 all the same.....still working on that one.

I think tyomorrow I'll order the material for the cams so I have it to work on after I get the block shipped. Busy Busy.
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I finished up mygrinding today....I hate grinding, the little shards of metal always end up stuck all in my skin. But it's done now so I'm ready to make the create the and ship it out. I'm going to try and get started tonight after the little one goes to bed so I can be sue I get it done and the engine shipped this week. I'm really really ready to move on to something else.

 

Are hose new Paul? I thought you had 1 pointed out the side?


yuo still need 6 more to do it right though

 

That is my real plan, a`simple stock looking 4 outlet system.

 

I ordered the steel for the cams this morning ( I got busy and forgot to do it yesterday)- $400 plus shipping. crazy....I best not make any mistakes cutting them.

This is the part Paul's been waiting for, but it's still going to take a wait. There is a lot of steel to cut to make the blanks then they have to be ground before they can be installed in the heads so I can check the timing chain fit-up. I'll probably make the blanks and get them out tro the grinder then move on to the bellhousing and drop gears since the block should be back by then, which will interupt the timing chain.

hmmm... I wonder if the intake cams will even install before I fit the new larger buckets in their new re-spaced positions or if the planned monster cam lobes will hit something??? If I have to fix the heads first that will further delay the timing chain by a couple months at least. Sorry Paul but it might still be several months before I'm ready to do the chain.