In my youth I made some stupid moves, this was one of them. I still make lots of mistakes, just not the same ones! Thought I would let the forum members dissect this and, tear into me!
The engine came out of a successfully stock class drag car of the seventies. Some old timers may remember it when "Rip" Stephenson, competed the engine in a green, 1963 wagon. I bought the engine/trans and put it in my original R1, 1964 Avanti, in about 1980. Got the car running, but never driven and put away for the winter. I thought that the car had been winterized, but when got it out of storage I found that it had about a four inch external crack in the water jacket. Then in quick succession the blueprinted supercharger was stolen. Put the car back in storage where it remained until the other day when I pulled it out. The car will be going to my nephew. He's wanted the car for as long as he can remember, and as the best mechanic that I know, I think the match will be a good one.
My nephew Jon will be getting a bargain regardless of valuation of the engine/trans parts, this is just intended to satisfy my curiosity. I fully realize that much work has been done over the last forty years on upgrading the competitiveness of these engines, and these are original parts and the engine was built to seventies standards. Maybe none of this is worth anything today, but it's not for sale anyway.
The engine was built in conjunction with "StuV" products, after it was moved to Tacoma.
This is what I remember, and all that I remember:
1)1963 R2 block-not Avanti with stock 289 bore.
2)Balanced, blueprinted and CC'd.
3)Hard chromed crank, clearanced .003 on both rods and mains.
4)R3 heads with head work?
5)High output oil pump.
6)Original Avanti Aluminum timing gear.
7)Original R3 headers.
8)As I remember it had a high capacity oil pan.
9)Super T10 four speed.
10)Heavy clutch with some work done on the linkage to make it drivable.
11)Stainless steel flywheel with no scatter shield?
You won't hurt my feelings! The pain has long since subsided.
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The engine came out of a successfully stock class drag car of the seventies. Some old timers may remember it when "Rip" Stephenson, competed the engine in a green, 1963 wagon. I bought the engine/trans and put it in my original R1, 1964 Avanti, in about 1980. Got the car running, but never driven and put away for the winter. I thought that the car had been winterized, but when got it out of storage I found that it had about a four inch external crack in the water jacket. Then in quick succession the blueprinted supercharger was stolen. Put the car back in storage where it remained until the other day when I pulled it out. The car will be going to my nephew. He's wanted the car for as long as he can remember, and as the best mechanic that I know, I think the match will be a good one.
My nephew Jon will be getting a bargain regardless of valuation of the engine/trans parts, this is just intended to satisfy my curiosity. I fully realize that much work has been done over the last forty years on upgrading the competitiveness of these engines, and these are original parts and the engine was built to seventies standards. Maybe none of this is worth anything today, but it's not for sale anyway.
The engine was built in conjunction with "StuV" products, after it was moved to Tacoma.
This is what I remember, and all that I remember:
1)1963 R2 block-not Avanti with stock 289 bore.
2)Balanced, blueprinted and CC'd.
3)Hard chromed crank, clearanced .003 on both rods and mains.
4)R3 heads with head work?
5)High output oil pump.
6)Original Avanti Aluminum timing gear.
7)Original R3 headers.
8)As I remember it had a high capacity oil pan.
9)Super T10 four speed.
10)Heavy clutch with some work done on the linkage to make it drivable.
11)Stainless steel flywheel with no scatter shield?
You won't hurt my feelings! The pain has long since subsided.
.
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