Opening $200 Craigslist motor been stored for 30 years.
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01/02/24 08:49 PM
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So I thought I would post something here for information sake. Normally I just randomly come across stuff on Craigslist and found something not unusual, but uniquely diffrent. Replied to an ad with a 360 for sale. Showed rattle can black paint, a vintage weiand intake manifold, and a-body spool mounts. Pretty much a long block. Ad reads that it has a purple cam, big valves and was stored in a garage since 1993 which was on the newspaper dates that was crammed into every hole. I was looking for a core to build up into a stroker for one of my cars and figured a 360 I don’t need to pull from a truck was worth the advertised 200 bones. After some talking with the owner, came to find out he had it in a 1974 dodge dart that he had wrecked and pulled it before scrapping the car with intentions of putting it in a boat. 30 years later, it ended up finally leaving his moms garage. After an addition $300 for an engine hoist, cradle and two hours of assembling the most difficult Harbor Freight engine I have ever seen, we were on our way to a friends shop to a buddy that wanted the heads off this engine for a 340 I sold to his wife. Pulling off the weiand intake and crusty Edelbrock valve covers revealed and absolutely shimmy, cross hatched cylinder walls, nearly shinny .300 cast flat top pistons, a purple shaft and a valley pan! This motor is so clean on the inside, I decided not to build a stroker and just drop it off at the machine shop and have them upgrade it, ad some performance heads and run it in a street car. Here are a few pics. Not completely cool, but interesting nonetheless.
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Re: Opening $200 Craigslist motor been stored for 30 years.was
[Re: 440_Offroader]
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01/07/24 04:44 PM
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I'm not much into small blocks, but is that valley pan something you can buy, or did someone fabricate that pan? Never seen one on a small block before. I have one of those valley pans always thought it was an Ed Hamburgers pan.
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Re: Opening $200 Craigslist motor been stored for 30 years.was
[Re: migsBIG]
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01/08/24 06:42 AM
01/08/24 06:42 AM
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Just thinking out loud and not being an mech expert… but that valley pan could be good to keep more of the splashed oil around closer to the camshaft and dropping down back?.
Last edited by NachoRT74; 01/08/24 06:43 AM.
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