My gratitude to pmuller9 and everyone else who guided me through this cam install and degreeing.
I really do daydream about stomping on the Bronco's gas pedal and the thing hopping right to it. I can't wait to hear the slightly loppy idle ( I think). Of course also I lay in bed imagining the worst: turning it over for the first time and hearing the crunch of push rods and valves. We shall see.
I will start another post for the next step. Here's where the engine rebuild is at the moment.
It's time to focus on the cylinder head - again.
The 1983 head has a valve job done by Noland's Head Shop here in KC. Things done; magnfluxed, new guides, three-way valve job, new seats, new valves, etc. I spent a long time porting the head and did an "E for effort" job. I have the 3/4 exhaust port divider from Vintage Inlines.
Bubba22349 has been my Jedi all the way through that process. Bubba helped me spec the rebuild. He truly is the Guru. So I feel good about the head. Immediately up next is the milling of the head. The head is at the shop to me milled 0.030" to get the quench down to 54cc. Bubba again took me through calculating exactly what needs to be done to get the Dynamic Compression Ratio where we need it. But he wants me to verify things haven't changed with the cam work we just did. I will be on that immediately before the head is milled.
I have a RAU 1.6 adjustable rocker arm. The Howard cam kit came with new hydraulic lifters. One of the big unknowns at this time is pushrod length. I got new ball and cup pushrods with the cam. But they may be too long with all the decking and milling. I will have to check the push rods.
I have plenty to work on.
Thank you one more time for all the help. I am very excited to keep the Inline 6 engine enthusiasm alive. With my '66 Bronco I may not be hotrodding like you guys. But as the man told me, "If that Bronco were meant to go fast it wouldn't be shaped like a brick."