So we pulled the 351C today, washed the engine bay and installed the new Comp cam in the 429. We also cc'd a combustion chamber and piston and checked the deck height. With the .041 compressed gasket thickness the 429 is going to be at 10.48:1 compression. I don't know if Adam or Andy took any pictures but if they did, hopefully they'll post them up.
Funny that Ron mentioned pictures. My dad and I were talking about it on the way home and realized neither of us took any pics. We will fro sure have the camera in hand for install of the 429 this weekend. Glad Ron did the compression calculation because I had no idea that we would be looking at about 10.5:1.
Thought I would update this thread with our progress. Sorry but this is kind of wordy.
4/13
We worked on the Mach last saturday and seemed to keep running into issues. We did get the motor dropped in but had to open up some of the holes on the motor mounts to get the driver side to fit. We realized that our rocker studs were smaller than we thought so we could not install the rockers. My dad was going to order larger studs from APR. Got the passenger side header on and room is a little tight.
429 has a new home
Intake
4/21
We met up again at Ron's to continue the work yesterday. We started with installing a new mini-starter to help with the tight fit of the exhaust. This sent my dad on his first trip to the auto parts store for some new cables. We then installed the new rocker studs and went to install the rockers and realized we did not have rocker guides so once again could not install the rockers. Finishing up the exhaust was next on the list. When installing the driver side header everything was going well until one of the tubed was cut short and would not completely sleeve into the tube attached to the collector. These headers are in 3 pieces for each side because of the space issue so the rear 2 pipes attach to the head and sleeve into the compete pipes from the front 2 cylinders. Moving on we hooked up Ron's old exhaust off the Chevelle. Had to of course do some fitting but this is just temporary to get my dad to an exhaust shop to get all new exhaust from the collectors back (going to Muffler Man in Placentia for exhaust). While Ron and I were doing the exhaust my dad made his second trip to the parts store for some U-clams and flexible pipe. Next we moved onto the fuel pump and this got my dad making his third trip to the part store for the correct fuel filter and fittings. After getting the fuel pump installed we realized that the new fuel filter that the parts store guys gave my dad was wrong again. Trip 4 to the auto parts store for my dad. While my dad was doing that we moved onto the new serp. belt set-up for the car and realized that the kit they sent has a crank pulley that bolts to a harmonic balancer but our stock set-up has a crank pulley that is also the harmonic balancer. Another roadblock and we ended the day there.
Starter
Exhaust
Side by side of exhaust: old was 2.25" pipe and the new is a huge 3"
