Our Preacher's new toy

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So, I'm elbows deep (never fails) into one of the semi's out in the shop when my phone starts ringing. It's our preacher, we are great friends, he is a car, gun, 4 wheeler, hunting, etc, guy just like me. Wants me to come over says he has something to show me he thinks I'd like. Went to the house to get my pickup keys and let the wife know I'm running over to Bro. Curt's real quick, said he either got a new gun or a nice buck this morning. I wasn't expecting this.
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'67, 455/4 speed, Ford 9" with Caltracs. He traded his '65 C10 shortbed for it. It's a little rough around the edges but man, it was a blast to drive.
 
So, I'm elbows deep (never fails) into one of the semi's out in the shop when my phone starts ringing. It's our preacher, we are great friends, he is a car, gun, 4 wheeler, hunting, etc, guy just like me. Wants me to come over says he has something to show me he thinks I'd like. Went to the house to get my pickup keys and let the wife know I'm running over to Bro. Curt's real quick, said he either got a new gun or a nice buck this morning. I wasn't expecting this. View attachment 335539
'67, 455/4 speed, Ford 9" with Caltracs. He traded his '65 C10 shortbed for it. It's a little rough around the edges but man, it was a blast to drive.
They just don't look right without the quad headlights.
 
They just don't look right without the quad headlights.
PO put cold air induction in using the high beam holes. It came with some parts including a new core support to remedy that. I told him he can't park next to me at shows until that is fixed, lol.
 
Tell your preacher his taste in classic cars is questionable at best.:poke::lol:
 
Also tell the preacher to keep his RPMs under 4k unless he wants to pick up parts from the street. 455 Pontiac has a nodular iron crank if original.

Dave
 
Also tell the preacher to keep his RPMs under 4k unless he wants to pick up parts from the street. 455 Pontiac has a nodular iron crank if original.

Dave
They can stand up to more, my friends never let them off easy.
 
Tell your preacher his taste in classic cars is questionable at best.:poke::lol:
Yeah, He's a GM guy. It makes for good natured poking.
Also tell the preacher to keep his RPMs under 4k unless he wants to pick up parts from the street. 455 Pontiac has a nodular iron crank if original.

Dave
Shift light hits at 5500, I lit it a few times running through the gears. It looks like it was a serious street car at one time. Subframe connectors, battery in the trunk, braided fuel lines, fuel cell. The dash is all Autometer gauges. Those big block pontiacs are HUGE!
 
no pontiacs are two different animals , 326 350 400 are small mains like 350 361 383 400 mopar , and the 421 428 455 are large mains , like 413 426 440 mopar . heads and manifolds do interchange from the 326 thru the 455 . but they don't need rpm to make big torque n horse power . and stock ramair 4 heads with factory manifolds made the best power , my buds 71 455 ho in a 75 t/a with 3.08's , with just a cam and minor port matching made 500 plus hp at 5050 rpm , was just as fast as my ford boss 302 that turned 8500 with 3.91's , that mustang would fly to 155 mph . never got to run him with any of my mopars sorry . it would have been a good run with my 70 challenger rt 4spd with a built 440 6pck . its a 155 mph car with 3.23 , thats not topped out though . it twisted upwards to 8k . never been there but in first in a burnout at my chevy buds house . throttle hang up , the tach was bouncing off 8k , roar'n the rears off . laid down about 150 feet of grooved up street in front of his house . and so much smoke the street was just a smoke cloud of tire rubber . good thing that was a carrillo steel rod motor . it rips it up boy , lol .
 
Make sure he knows it's a 6+ qt oil change, w/o the filter. Long rod w/long stroke makes for torque with more dwell time at TDC. No need to treat it like a small block Chevy as it needs to have "everything in" by 5000rpm, like 455 Buicks. Then don't over-gear it.

Neat cars, even if they are GM. Sounds like it has some interesting stuff in it.

Enjoy!
CBODY67
 
Make sure he knows it's a 6+ qt oil change, w/o the filter. Long rod w/long stroke makes for torque with more dwell time at TDC. No need to treat it like a small block Chevy as it needs to have "everything in" by 5000rpm, like 455 Buicks. Then don't over-gear it.

Neat cars, even if they are GM. Sounds like it has some interesting stuff in it.

Enjoy!
CBODY67

GM produced a number of engines in '70 that were producing some significant horsepower numbers, the high performance Buick, Olds and Pontiac variants of the 455 were all rated at 390 horsepower. The special edition 454 Chev was rated at 430 horsepower. The 427 Chev had a forged steel crank at 425 horsepower and would live on the track. Most of the other GM offerings were nodular Iron offerings. The 426 Hemi engines were eating pretty much everything else alive because with some work you could run the Hemi at 6k RPMs or more and it would stay in one piece all afternoon. If you tried that with most GM big block engines, you would spend a lot of time with a broom and shovel.

Dave
 
So, I'm elbows deep (never fails) into one of the semi's out in the shop when my phone starts ringing. It's our preacher, we are great friends, he is a car, gun, 4 wheeler, hunting, etc, guy just like me. Wants me to come over says he has something to show me he thinks I'd like. Went to the house to get my pickup keys and let the wife know I'm running over to Bro. Curt's real quick, said he either got a new gun or a nice buck this morning. I wasn't expecting this. View attachment 335539
'67, 455/4 speed, Ford 9" with Caltracs. He traded his '65 C10 shortbed for it. It's a little rough around the edges but man, it was a blast to drive.
Better than another Camaro...
 
Chevy was also building tall-deck 366s and 427s for their MD ad HD truck models. Many with nitride treatments. The other carlines didn't have similar truck motors, although Olds was big in the irrigation motor business and pleasure jet boats (later replaced by Ford 460s). The 350 and 455 Olds engines had the highest "rod ratios" of any big block engine, back then.

The tall deck was necessary to accommodate the 4-ring pistons of the truck motors. Needed a longer shaft on the distributors, plus the different intake manifolds.

CBODY67
 
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