WEBMASTER'S NOTE: The following is an ongoing project
by Wes Adams to build a "Poor Man's 427", using a Ford FT 330 block
and other 'cast-off' parts. The posts were saved from the FordFE.com forums
and reposted here with Wes' permission.
Here we go! I know there's a
bunch of you who wanted to see some more on how this gets done.
I hope that you enjoy another great article on this stuff.
I posted before on a Part 1 on how to do up the rods for "The
Poor Man's 427". Well the center to center were soooo far off
that it wasn't funny! So here you have a second chance if you
did miss out on this before!
Today we are starting off with a set of C6AE-C rod's out of my
scrap iron pile. I just got done blasting off all the crap
that was on there.
After I pulled them out, they went straight into the hot tank to
make sure that they are spotless!
They look like new rods after they
got the clean treatment.
Here is Bill cutting a cap and rod. He showed me how to use the
machine and I did the rest of the caps and rods! Nice set-up....
Here we have all the cap and rod ends cut. I'm sorry for the
poor pics. I'll do better the next time or the BEER is on me!
Here is a close-up of what it looks like on the cut ends. I know
what you are saying: "Look at that crap on the edges". Well, we
are going to take care of that right now.
Here I am filing the inside edge off a little bit. I do this to
the cap and rod ends, so we know that we have
nothing between the 2 surfaces and we get a good clamp!
Next we need to put some bolts in our rods. We didn't do ARP
but instead we used the Pioneer bolts for this. Remember we are
sticking to the theme here "The Poor Man's 427". These rod bolts
are stronger then stock and shouldn't give us a single problem
for what we are trying to do with this engine! Remember, we have
a light set of pistons to use, and this isn't a circle
track engine that we are building here. If it was, then we
wouldn't use these bolts or rods to begin with.
Here are the specs that we need to know for torque and housing
bore.
Next we oil up the bolts and torque the nuts in the rod vise. We
went 45 foot-pounds on the nuts.
Here are the bearings that we are going to use!
Remember the bearing mic. This is when you need it! Here is the
measurements of the bearing: .0805
Remember that our crank (on the rod side) is 2.428 1/2 of the
bearing is .0805 (X2). Our oil clearance is .003. Add all these
numbers together to get your finished housing bore for the big end
of the rod. Here is what we got 2.5920 for a finished bore size.
Here we have the mic set up to cheek what the bore sizes
are.
Here you can see how to hone out the bore! As you can see, the
oil hole is up on the rods.
Next we reverse the rods with the
number side up. Make sure that you
use the full face of the stone when doing this. This is not an
easy job for anyone to do.
This is what it should look like...a good finished product.
I'm sorry that it's sooooo long but I hope that you enjoyed this.
If you have any questions about this please shoot me an email at
kwadams@charter.net or feel free to call me! Home #
541-882-5177 or Cell # 541-331-1484. See ya next time on "How to
do centers to centers on rods"
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