71 Satellite Sebring 440 rebuild
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06/05/09 10:12 PM
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well, the time came for the 440 in my '71 to be rebuilt. the old 440 ran great when i got it (16th b-day present for myself), but during college, it was pretty neglected. the last year or so, i've been upgrading things making it more reliable and drivable, so it became my semi-daily driver again. however, recently, i had oil coming out the driver's tailpipe - popped the valve cover off and had an intake vavle not opening - my immediate thought was round cam...nope - caved-in lifter! so, the tear-down began shortly after. running the numbers on the block, it's my best guess it was a police motor, as it was a 76 HP 440 with a HP C-body oil pan. as the stripping continued the motor started looking worse - i'm surprised it ran as well as it did my least favorite part of it all - plastic-coated cam sprocket - what were they thinking?! anyhow, the coating came off, running through the motor, in addition to crud and gasket sealer most-likely from whoever did the motor swap MANY years ago...which ended up in my pickup tube - about a handful of stuff i got out of it in a coffee can ------------------------------------------------- currently, the block is still at the machine shop - hopefully done soon, as i'm caught up with about everything i can be. engine bay was de-greased, power-washed, and painted with undercoating to take some abuse. technically, for my '71 the motor should be orange, but i like the blue and almost everyone does orange. all of the pieces are painted and ready to be installed. here's a look at my HEI distributor - nothing fancy, but way better than the stock points were. factory HP '69 intake with a 650 double pumper. i made this coil bracket, since the stock location does not work with the dual-inlet fuel line. Parts have been coming in pretty steady milodon windage tray 7 quart zinc-plated oil pan and pickup Bulk shipment of items...$400 worth....total for the rebuild, including the machine work and new higher compression pistons in the mix will be around $1400-1500. not too shabby imo
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Re: 71 Satellite Sebring 440 rebuild
[Re: landon1]
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06/06/09 02:06 PM
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Cool little project. I'm surprised the nylon timing sprockets didn't go earlier? Have fun putting it together.
56 Plaza 63 D100 step side 67 Coronet, 68 Roadrunner, 69 Super Bees, 69 Coronet 500 convertible, 70 Roadrunner Post, 79 D150 360, and a severe case of Mopar a,d,d
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Re: 71 Satellite Sebring 440 rebuild
[Re: landon1]
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08/09/09 09:17 PM
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well, after a long waiting process by myself, the motor is finally done at the machine shop...over 3 months later - anyhow, hopefully getting the block painted later this week with assembly over the weekend - not sure if i'll have time to get it back in the car due to other plans, but the weekend after is completely open, so we'll see.
accomplished this weekend...not much, got rocker shafts cleaned-up and protected, double-checked all of my stuff to make sure i don't have any last-minute trips to the parts store, got fitting for mechanical temp gauge to mount in WP housing, ordered a couple wix filters and a case of VR1 10-30
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Re: 71 Satellite Sebring 440 rebuild
[Re: roadrunnerh]
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08/29/09 10:21 AM
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thanks motor was all together, but had an issue with machine shop not putting in the lower front oil galley plug. he's getting me the plug and new gaskets, so hopefully will be back together and running this coming week - can't wait
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Re: 71 Satellite Sebring 440 rebuild
[Re: RodStRace]
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09/05/09 09:03 PM
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Please run a real air filter. Those triangle foam things are mullet-wearing Chivvy-boy filters!
the air filter lol....i have a moroso 14" drop base to match my originally gold anodized valve covers - i stripped the VCs to bare aluminum and lightly polished them. look much better now, i hated the gold so much, i actually had them painted wrinkle black, and eventually stripped that to paint them orange - bare aluminum looks much nicer - maybe when i have a bit of extra money i'll get some chrome ones and a new chrome air cleaner too
this is a good story, for anyone who wants to make fun of me. got a new holley double pumper, everything hooked-up, but my air cleaner wouldn't fit, it kept hitting on the carb, so it wasn't sitting down on the flange. so, went to the parts store and bought the air cleaner they had i KNEW would fit and it fit just fine, but with as crappy as my car was running then, had a pop through carb that melted the foam, so i thought "i'm gonna try my real air cleaner again" - and it fit for some reason on my previous holley, it didn't matter how the base plate was situated, but with this carb, the base plate has to be on a certain way, due to the longer fuel bowls i guess...anyhow, dumb me. got a replacement foam element for this one, as i kind of like it, but i would much rather run the moroso. but, i haven't finished stripping and cleaning it up yet - that's the story of how i ended up with that pro-flo.
i feel one-step up from chevy mullet guys, though - i found a pic somewhere that a guy didn't read the instructions, or didn't care and just drilled a hole through the filter, and used a large flat washer and a nut to use the carb stud to hold it down
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Re: 71 Satellite Sebring 440 rebuild
[Re: landon1]
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09/08/09 02:46 PM
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they are IMCO turbo mufflers, which are "summit" and "jegs" mufflers. i deliver a lot of them to exhaust pros shops. i'm very happy with it.
I used to work at an Exhaust Pros shop in New Hampton. We used Walker mufflers...have they changed suppliers? I was planning on running Walkers on the Challenger.
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Re: 71 Satellite Sebring 440 rebuild
[Re: burdar]
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09/08/09 07:53 PM
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possibly - i'm really not sure. but i do know that IMCO and Magnaflow are constantly delivered to Exhaust Pros shops as well as other smaller named shops.
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