dath

Well, my AR Racing 383 arrived yesterday. I haven't completely uncrated it yet as my old engine is sitting on my engine stand... I suppose it wasn't very well thought out to pull the old engine before the new one arrived... Oh well, maybe I'll buy a second stand or just carefully set my old engine on some foam or something for a bit...

Anyhow, without further ado, here's the required photo (more to come later):


Oh yeah, looked like the shipper set something heavy on top of the crate and the carb poked a hole in the plywood... No apparent damage, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

Fevre

:cool:

Curious though, what do you need to do to the new eng that you want to put it on the stand?

BB wowbagger

Looking good :thumbs: :thumbs:

tshort

Dang it, my stupid company rating checker won't let me see the picture :nonod:
I wanna see, I wanna see!!!!

tshort

Dath, I had that same dilemma. What I did was pull the old engine off the stand and suspend with hoist. While in the air, I made a stand consisting of 5 2x4's just like it is supported in the crate. Then I lowered and it is now on it's own stand. Then put the AR on the engine stand, worked on it, and then in the car.

isosceles

:cheers: :cool: I hope that's me someday!

GrandSportC3

:cool: :cheers:

Scooter70

Details, man..... and price?

Looks cool.

dath

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Did you have him provide you with a flexplate, or did you reuse your exsisting one? I wasn't sure if I should reuse or get a new one...

Fevre: According to Travis (and it looks to be true at first glance), the balancer is a slightly different size and thus I will need to somehow work out pulley alignment. I suppose I could do that while it is on the hoist, but I have no idea what I need to do to make the pulleys line up properly. In fact, if Travis could elaborate on this a bit, I'd appreciate it:->

Scooter70: Check out the link in my signature for more details... Price is around $3500 shipped, plus more for the carb, fuel pump, and nitrous kit... Mark does a variety of engine builds. My engine took longer to complete than I had hoped, but Mark has been swamped, both with work, and with rain as he's in Virginia and there has been a *LOT* of rain there...

I will give more updates with progress soon. I have a couple other little honey-do projects I need to finish before I really tear into this one...

Crash Dummy

Congradulations!! I agree.... we want what's in/on that 383. Appears AR supplied you with almost the complete engine(less dist.) including the intake, carb & valve covers. It's kind of hard to tell through the plastic. Are those Dart heads??

Cali,68,L-79

$3500 !! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

My God man I had my orignal motor rebuilt and it put out way way less horsepower than yours and was more expensive, okay I'm going to shoot myself! :rolleyes:

dath

Yep, I spent another $910 for the 750 Holley DP, Sniper NOS system, and fuel pump (I think it's a Holley race pump, but he is shipping it separate as the first one was damaged while loading...). Yep, the heads are Dart Iron Eagle 200cc/64cc with some porting work done. I even went and bought a new HEI dist from GM as my old one had a few issues I noticed while going over it... GM guy said it would be less to buy a new one, though it is a Proform, so I suppose I'll have to see how it works...

In retrospect, I should probably have just bought a used 750 DP from someone on the forum since I recall that someone had one with very few miles, but at the time I wasn't sure what I wanted to do yet...

dath

I hope to have some 1/4 times to back up those figures this summer, but we'll see. I'm still a bit reserved about it, but those are the figures Mark advertised. I know that Oliver has had very good results with his, so I took the plunge and slapped down the dough. I originally wanted to rebuild my motor mostly myself, but I decided at the prices Mark offered, *I* couldn't compete. I'm also impressed with the cleanliness of everything. It all looks really nice, if I'd done it, the paint would probably already be flaking and there would be overspray on everything. I was going to repaint it blue, but I think I'm going to leave it orange as it looks so nice. I usually paint to bolts too because I don't like taking them out just to paint things...

stingray_76

:cool: :cheers:

QuickVet

:cheers:

Ryan77

I'm sending Mark the check for my motor early next week, so it should be here in 2-3 weeks :cool:

74 vert

That's awesome and keep us posted. :thumbs:

phrogs

Looks like some serious fun waiting to happen! :thumbs:

PRNDL

Not sure if I have ever heard of anyone buying an engine complete with NOS already installed! :cool: Take it out of the bag!! :lol: MJ

tshort

Dath - I had Mark include a 400 flywheel. In fact, I'm wondering if it's the flywheel that's causing my vibration problems right now. It vibrates/shakes even in neutral around 1200-3300 rpms. Mark thinks it could either be the poly motor mounts just transfering the vibration straight to the frame or that I installed the flywheel on wrong. I can't imagine I installed it wrong, it looked like it could only go on one way.

As for the balancer and pulleys: I bought another water pump from a speed shop in town and the pulley mounting wheel was a little further in (which helped) so I left it at that. It's hard to tell but they are still off a little but not very much.....heck, I wonder if that could cause vibrations???? I'm running one pulley around water pump, crank, and alt. and the other between crank and water pump.