78 Chevy Monza

[Bigredmariner]

Should be about ready to fire it up tomorrow night.

 

[Black02Silverado]

Sleeper.

sleeper for sure!

 

[63chevystepside]

Should be about ready to fire it up tomorrow night.

I was hoping to be able to fire it up-but its going to be sunday at the earliest now-i got the heads on and last nite i put the exhaust on and all the spark plugs but one(which i broke-so i have to go get another one of those no biggee)im going to have to take that carb to intake high rise plate off if i want to get that cold ram ait kit on-he did shave 20thousands off the heads.I hope this works lol iv been working on this car in one way or another for a year and im ready just .

 

[63chevystepside]

Sleeper.

sleeper for sure!

Yes its a sleeper-if my calulations are right it should be a 12.3 quarter mile car-it should have right at 350horses and weigh around 2900 with me in it.And the kicker is it will be a daily driver.

 

[63chevystepside]

I sayed up til about 3 in the morning and got it almost completely back together-i just got a few things left-i should be able to start it up in a little bit !!! OMG! I HOPE ITS PERFECT!!!-I have to run to the parts store and get a new electric temp gauge i broke the one i had on it and some pipe or something to connect up the exhaust pipe then run the valves -then-sh-sh-shbang-band bang!!! lol.

 

[63chevystepside]

I did run into a problem-i guess i tightened the rockers to tight-the engine would run for a few then stop suddenly like something was forcing it to stop-i hope i didnt hurt anything-i after a while trying to check it out and starting it and running it backed off the rockers and it kept running and seemed better-today im getting to putting on the exhaust-then starting it up and checking it all out-i couldnt run the vavles with all that open exhaust so ill be doing that to that was some of the reason i guess i messed up and had it to tight-i didnt think i did-i turned it by hand on the balancer and tightened just some as i went along-i cant think of any thing else-the dist. was all the way in-i had just had the heads fixed-i did check the starter its ok.

 

[63chevystepside]

It runs!!! Finally OMG!!!-Now i can step away from it and go back to the 66chevystepside. i was having problems with it and heck i thought i was licked and lol i checked the firing order and had 2 plugs crossed. It runs good-i just have to clean it up and do a few odd and ends and it be road ready. To recap-this is a 78 chevy monza with a less than 50k limited slip 373 geared reaend- a recently rebuilt 350turbo tranny with a shift kit and a 2200-2500stall- a 1970 350 virgin chevy with just rebuilt heads that had hardened seats put in with 20 thousands shaved off-a 1 inch smaller harmonic balancer-double roll chain-a regrinded cam with a 480 lift,110 lobe,288 duration,2200-6200rpm-new long slotted rockers with moly tights-new pushrods and lifters -new z28 springs that can handle up to a 500lift-6500rpm eldrbrock performer alu. intake-750eldrobrock carb.-weight set in the hei-dual exhaust-new plugs gaped at 35 thousands-steel fan-re roded raditor that is a 3 core high eff.-a dual cold ram air intake-Man i think thats it-What ya think?

 

[66nova]

Congrats!

 

[63chevystepside]

Congrats!

Thanks-i just spent a year on this car and that included working out the kinks.

 

[hotrodpc]

Doesn't sound like you needed long slot rockers for that cam, but you have them now should you decide to go bigger someday. I'll also add, as light as that car is, don't be suprised if you don't get 2200 stall out of it. Being you said its 2200-2600 it might, but I have never seen such a range rating either. If were me, I'd have probably ran a 3000 stall and hope to get around 2500-2600 out of it in such a light car. A heavier car or truck might even get more than 2200. Lots of things to factor in when choosing a stall. Still oughta work good with that cam though, just saying, you might not get 2200 out of it is all.