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- From: hotrod@dixie.com (The Hotrod List)
- Subject: Re: 302 parts compatible?
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- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 18:32:19 GMT
- Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.
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- -> Hi Dave. How was your holiday?
-
- Hi, Millam. I spent most of it building foundry equipment and learning
- how to cast aluminum. A new skill to add to my repertoire. <grin>
- Yes, with a 5 gallon pail, some castable refractory, an ordinary hair
- dryer, and some foundry sand (I got mine from Brodix!) you too can cast
- your own parts. It's faaaar out.
-
- -> Yeah I still have the 351BOSS rods, but they are the shortest of the
- -> 351 rods. The next longest are the 351W and then the 351Aussie. The
- -> aussie rods mike out at 6.090" whereas the american 351C rods are
- -> 5.995 or so.
-
- Uh... 351C rods are 5.75, 351W rods are 5.995, and 351M rods are 6.65.
- B&A says the 302-C rods are 6.020. They're a bit beefier than 351W
- rods, but the simplest/cheapest way to 6 inch rods in the 351C is to
- simply swap in a set of Windsor rods.
-
-
- -> Did you see the article in Super Ford about the 358cid based upon a
- -> 302 block? It uses the M-6010-A4 302 block, a M-6301-B351 forged
- -> steel crank, 5.4" cunningham steel rods and the usual mish-mash of
- -> parts.
-
- Huh. The usual method is to cut down a 351C crank to 302 bearing size,
- at which time you can also offset grind it up to .150 or so. This means
- moving the pins up from 1.6 to 1.35 inches if you keep the 5.090 stock
- length rods. A 1.35 pin height is fairly high - you probably wouldn't
- be into the oil ring though. To raise the pin another .310 with the 5.4
- rods would give a 1.04 compression height, and that's 'way up in the
- second ring groove. Ow. Talk about bleeding edge!
-
- Unless this was one of those "let's have all our advertisers donate
- lots of high dollar parts" motors I think they wasted their money on the
- forged crank. The 351C part is plenty strong (high nodular, not grey
- iron). I'd have used the 5.315 Brazilian 2300 Pinto rods too. We'd be
- talking about a 1.125 pin height. An ordinary 302 block would probably
- be plenty strong too. Ah, well. <grin>
-
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- Posted by: emory!chaos.lrk.ar.us!dave.williams (Dave Williams)
-