What did you do to your Vmax today? Part 2

[wilks]

Saw your YouTube video yesterday on refurbishing those….great job.

 

[CaptainKyle]

Saw your YouTube video yesterday on refurbishing those….great job.

Thanks !

 

[V85wick]

Still doing a full rebuild on my 85 Vmax. Just finished priming all frame parts. Gonna look great!

 

[CaptainKyle]

No bikes today. I went and picked up a small block 400 for the Luv. It's nothing radical but should do great in a 2,650 lb truck.

 

[MadMark]

No bikes today. I went and picked up a small block 400 for the Luv. It's nothing radical but should do great in a 2,650 lb truck.

I hope it has 3 freeze plugs/casting plugs.

 

[MadMark]

I hope it has 3 freeze plugs/casting plugs.

A lot of People don't realize what a sub 2800lb car can do with 500hp.

 

[gentsvmax]

No bikes today. I went and picked up a small block 400 for the Luv. It's nothing radical but should do great in a 2,650 lb truck.

A power-to-weight ratio where the weight forgot to show up!
Should be fun!

 

[CaptainKyle]

I hope it has 3 freeze plugs/casting plugs.

Blueprint manufacturers there own blocks they are proven. It should be fun with the torque curve it had and the 3,000 stall and 373 gears

 

[Fire-medic]

Looks like aluminum heads and is that a Mallory distributor? Whose heads are they? TFS?

 

[CaptainKyle]

Looks like aluminum heads and is that a Mallory distributor? Whose heads are they? TFS?

It's all Blueprint. I will be using my MSD distributor. This has all the specs on the engine. GM SB Compatible 400 c.i. Engine - 500 HP - Deluxe Dressed - Carbureted

 

[Fire-medic]

Pretty-close to the cast-iron double-hump 'fuelie' cyl heads yours being 2.08"/1.6" and the fuelie heads which are 2.2"/1.6". The longer intakes should help with airflow velocity, and proof of that is they spec it w/an 850 cfm carburetor. With the MSD distributor do you use the MSD-6AL box?

 

[CaptainKyle]

Pretty-close to the cast-iron double-hump 'fuelie' cyl heads yours being 2.08"/1.6" and the fuelie heads which are 2.2"/1.6". The longer intakes should help with airflow velocity, and proof of that is they spec it w/an 850 cfm carburetor. With the MSD distributor do you use the MSD-6AL box?

I'm actually using summits version of the 6 al

 

[MadMark]

Blueprint manufacturers there own blocks they are proven. It should be fun with the torque curve it had and the 3,000 stall and 373 gears

I didn't know Blueprint Engines had there own Blocks now. I still have a 70's 351w with 25yr old iron Dart Sr heads. But the only thing Ford is the block.

 

[CaptainKyle]

I didn't know Blueprint Engines had there own Blocks now. I still have a 70's 351w with 25yr old iron Dart Sr heads. But the only thing Ford is the block.

It does gave 3 freeze plugs though and they cast there name into the blocks.

 

[wilks]

rode it yesterday...it was 70 degrees here for a day....took off and the bike felt super heavy in the steering and I'm like WTF...get back from going just down the road and check front tire pressure it was under 10lbs. yikes

before everyone is like "check before ya ride" I had just had a tire put on the front and we didn't check the steel valve stem nuts...they were loose. duh

 

[Fire-medic]

didn't check the steel valve stem nuts...they were loose

No reason to loosen that unless you were replacing the rubber gaskets. Maybe it is easier to loosen the valve stem, and push it in, to bleed-off air pressure for changing the tire, instead of removing the valve core.

 

[wilks]

No reason to loosen that unless you were replacing the rubber gaskets. Maybe it is easier to loosen the valve stem, and push it in, to bleed-off air pressure for changing the tire, instead of removing the valve core.

I took it to a buddys scooter shop to have him change the tire and balance it….we removed the schrader valve to deflate the tire before we took the old one off.

It was just loose and leaking.

 

[MadMark]

Pretty-close to the cast-iron double-hump 'fuelie' cyl heads yours being 2.08"/1.6" and the fuelie heads which are 2.2"/1.6". The longer intakes should help with airflow velocity, and proof of that is they spec it w/an 850 cfm carburetor. With the MSD distributor do you use the MSD-6AL box?

2.02in 1.64ext valves double hump heads cannot compare to even the cheapest china heads today. I've never seen a 2.2" intake valve, that's over ½ of the bore diameter even if its bored .30 on a 4" bore.

 

[Fire-medic]

Oops, I believe you're right!. Put that zero before the second two, the one to the right of the point.

 

[MadMark]

Oops, I believe you're right!. Put that zero before the second two, the one to the right of the point.

I was just FN with you, I believe an know you more about any motorcycle then I could ever know. Everyone F's up trying to help every once in awhile.