A few weeks ago I got the 440 running again in my Charger. I am putting off having a motor built for a few more years so I figured Id try to get away with a refresh of my motor. The motor was running well when parked 15 years ago. The cylinders looked ok so I just honed them with a flex ball and put new rings and bearings. The pistons had a few scratches in them but the machine shop who loosened them up on the rods thought they were ok. I had a few pistons that felt tight on the rod so I had them clean and re press them.
The car was an automatic before, now a 4 speed, changed the heads to Edelbrock RPM, same intake and carbs and headers.
The rockers are stock stamped steel Mopar, same ones that came out along with the pushrods. I re used the cam and lifters, putting them all in the same spot.
Cam is Mopar 284/484, its running terrible right now, blowing gray smoke, about 8 inches of vacuum, not sure what the power valve is, but it smells very rich. I tried putting about 18 degrees initial timing, but it dieseled after shut off, didn't really drive it around to see if pinging, and with the noise, don't want to rev it up to high. I tried retarding the timing and the noise was still there.
The noise follows the RPMS, almost sounds like an exhaust leak but it isn't. Not sure what I can do w/o taking off the intake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSS5oCcsRaQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFh6mxFDMrE
