Engine Rebuild Advice

[2Blew2B]

Hi All,
I am going to pull my 200 again. Last time I just cleaned and dressed it up. Now I am going to pull her to have it rebuilt. I do not want to go over the top. I have a 2bbl holly card/ electronic ignition. I would just like to boost the performance and I need the parts and what to tell my machine shop guy. He is an older fellow that has been a machinist for a long time. He sounds like he could do any job I just need to know what to tell him and what parts to get. I appreciate a total package type of answer so I get all the stuff to work together. What should I have done to the head and block as well as what type of cam/pistons ect to get. Thank all in advance.

2blew2b

 

[addo]

Work from the back forwards. How does it get driven, what's the tyre size, rear gears, transmission type?

Now you have an idea of ideal operating RPM bandwidth, so choosing a cam is possible. That in turn, will define compression ratio, maybe clearances and also start you on peripheral tuning issues, such as the carb and ignition.

 

[2Blew2B]

It will be a fair weather driver. I am putting a 8" 3.55 track loc 65 5 lug rear end ,it will have R14 on the back and will have a wide ratio Toploader 4 speed.

 

[falcon fanatic]

For a basic daily driver, I'd probably do a straight rebuild with the addition of a good balancing. Mill the deck (0 seems to be the clearance of choice) and head to give a target compression of around 9.5:1 or slightly less. Choose a torquey cam that tops out around 5,500 rpm, and install with a dual roller timing chain. I think everything else, including pistons, can stay as stock, although you will probably need an overbore, so you might as well go .040 over.

Put the rest of the money in your head: big valves, bowl work, decent springs, hardened exhaust seats, and whatever you need to do to mount that carb with the float chamber facing the radiator and the biggest hole you can have going into the manifold. Put aside some money for a header, too.

This will give you a well balanced engine that will rev smoothly, make way more power than you have now, and last a good long time.

 

[2Blew2B]

Falcon Fantic,
Thank you for the advice. I got the headers from Classic Inliners a while ago and i have the clifford adaptor for my carb. I think i can get the rest from classic inliners unless someone knows a better place.

 

[falcon fanatic]

Yeah, I was lookinig at your pics. The only thing I'd say is to see if you can use your stock carb spacer (with the water jacket in it...) to turn the clifford adapter 90* so that the bowl faces forward. Then again, if you are not having any issues with the car bogging or dying on hard turns, why bother.

I also saw that you've had a head rebuild, or at least a valve job, so I'm guessing you won't want to do any headwork at this time. Still, there is a lot of power to be had in cleaning up the bowls. If you will be doing headwork, since you have the small log head with the small opening, see if the machinist can enlarge the opening.

When you buy the new cam, make sure to get the whole kit with lifters, pushrods, and matching valve springs. I think Classic Inlines also has a package with the timing chain included.