Ryan you milled off the best part of the intake! LOL...

He got the header flanges from Indy.

What kind of flow numbers did you get on your bench Ryan?

Thanks guys for posting the engine progress, it's a very interesting read. Most guys wouldn't show the inner workings of a one-off engine, but we're glad you are.

The #1 Reason I come to this site is to learn.

I am grateful, so my #2 reason for coming on here is to share info with those who may need it to "pay back" what I owe.

I told Ryan at the beginning I have nothing to hide and he can share whatever info he wants on this project.

This engine should make at least 800LARGE for power, I have a 461smallblock(that earlier in the post the guy from sasktoon had heard of a 462 in alberta, this is me, but its 461)pump gas 750 single carb NATURALLY ASPIRATED with indy heads light bobweight, basically the same parts as this buildup and mine made 741hp and 638torque. This engine is in a 68 barracuda street car with full interior,exhaust,etc...Best et is 9.52@142.88mph with a 1.39 sixty ft. on a 10"tire with leaf springs and cal tracs No trans brake.

Any progress?

I'm hoping to have the pallet of parts ready to ship to Ron next week or the following. I'll have some pics of the block lightening here early next week, been hunting too much this week to get much else done. I'm supposed to go down & help finish up few little last lightening operations on block tomorrow afternoon that will be done by hand on the CNC (non CNC program items) & will pull it out of CNC & weigh it.

Finished the heads @ end of last week, just need to CC chambers now to verify CC's after their surface job & assemble them. Nothing too special going into heads, just set of Ferrea Comp Plus stainless valves, & using Comp Tool Steel retainers/Crower locks & a Comp 930 spring for the Hyd roller.

Are you going to use a index hardened spring seat (locator) to keep the bottom of the springs from moving around or are the heads spring seat step machined?

Yes I use a cup or locator on just about everything... his ICH -1's have a Comp 4700-16 1.68" OD chrome moly seat cup.

I'm going to try to remember to take some pics of the block this afternoon when we finish lightening it. So MAYBE some pics tonight, depending on how busy I get.

Thanks Ron, Ryan J., and the rest of you guys for these very informative posts on this one off build.

Very interesting thread

Im new here and this site really does it for me.

Block pics....

We got 53.5 lbs out of this block..... it's now 178.5 lbs, lightest Tall deck R3 I have ever weighed. 16 hours in the CNC...

Dr side

Window mill Dr side