MightyMats
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Good day everyone.
I was home from the middle-east on leave a few months ago and I managed to pull off an engine swap in my 67 Chrysler 300 during that time. My wife was nice enough to give me five days to work on my old junk. It took me three days to complete the rebuild of my transmission and full engine swap by myself. The rest of the days were spent breaking the engine in, rewiring the engine, fixing breaks, fuel leaks at the tank, and other small things.
I rebuilt a later model 727 with the larger stator bearing with some other trick parts. I was able to stuff more clutches in the transmission by using a different drum from a later transmission. I did not install a shift kit in the car regardless of what you see in the photos. It has some 5 pinion steel planets installed as well.
The Engine is a .030 over block, zero decked, ported heads, and stock stroke. I have a single plane on it right now because that's what I had laying around. I purchased an Edlebrock dual plane for it but that will be getting installed later alone with a 850 Holley w/ vacuum secondary's. It will be enough to spin the tires but still cruise good without overheating which is all I really want for this boat.
It also has a massive duel core aluminum radiator with two electric fans and an aftermarket derale oil cooler mounted to the grill to keep the temps down. I used to overheat in traffic in Massachusetts on 95 in the summer when it was 93 degrees. So anything I can do to keep this ole' girl cool is good in my eyes.
I had a spare engine rebuilt at a local shop while I was away so all I had to do was swap it in.
Removing the engine and transmission took me 8 hours total, the 727 rebuild took me around 12 hours to complete. I went to bed at 3am that night. Then the following day I woke up at 9am and stuffed it all back in with a few choice words.
I broke the engine in and drove it around the block. The alternator died and then it experienced an ignition problem. I could not diagnose it before I had to fly back here to the land of the sand. Either way it is not happy and does not want to RPM, idle, and misfires. The cam on the distributor was slightly worn but i still had enough of a gap although maybe the points were just toast from trying to get the thing started the first time. Either way it now has a new probillet distributor and MSD waiting for me when I get home. The points are going in the trash.
I managed to stop and take photos of the entire debacle throughout the job. It was a mad dash to get the job done, there was no "not finishing" the work. It had to get done period. I was happy to go back to my wife and apartment after 5 days. Even when I am on vacation I have to work.
Anyways, here are the photos. I hope you Enjoy.
I was home from the middle-east on leave a few months ago and I managed to pull off an engine swap in my 67 Chrysler 300 during that time. My wife was nice enough to give me five days to work on my old junk. It took me three days to complete the rebuild of my transmission and full engine swap by myself. The rest of the days were spent breaking the engine in, rewiring the engine, fixing breaks, fuel leaks at the tank, and other small things.
I rebuilt a later model 727 with the larger stator bearing with some other trick parts. I was able to stuff more clutches in the transmission by using a different drum from a later transmission. I did not install a shift kit in the car regardless of what you see in the photos. It has some 5 pinion steel planets installed as well.
The Engine is a .030 over block, zero decked, ported heads, and stock stroke. I have a single plane on it right now because that's what I had laying around. I purchased an Edlebrock dual plane for it but that will be getting installed later alone with a 850 Holley w/ vacuum secondary's. It will be enough to spin the tires but still cruise good without overheating which is all I really want for this boat.
It also has a massive duel core aluminum radiator with two electric fans and an aftermarket derale oil cooler mounted to the grill to keep the temps down. I used to overheat in traffic in Massachusetts on 95 in the summer when it was 93 degrees. So anything I can do to keep this ole' girl cool is good in my eyes.
I had a spare engine rebuilt at a local shop while I was away so all I had to do was swap it in.
Removing the engine and transmission took me 8 hours total, the 727 rebuild took me around 12 hours to complete. I went to bed at 3am that night. Then the following day I woke up at 9am and stuffed it all back in with a few choice words.
I broke the engine in and drove it around the block. The alternator died and then it experienced an ignition problem. I could not diagnose it before I had to fly back here to the land of the sand. Either way it is not happy and does not want to RPM, idle, and misfires. The cam on the distributor was slightly worn but i still had enough of a gap although maybe the points were just toast from trying to get the thing started the first time. Either way it now has a new probillet distributor and MSD waiting for me when I get home. The points are going in the trash.
I managed to stop and take photos of the entire debacle throughout the job. It was a mad dash to get the job done, there was no "not finishing" the work. It had to get done period. I was happy to go back to my wife and apartment after 5 days. Even when I am on vacation I have to work.
Anyways, here are the photos. I hope you Enjoy.
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