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73 Matador Wagon/75 Gremlin
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You can. There are reports of having to trim skirt material off some batches so they won't hit the crank throws (iirc). You will have to calculate your compression ratio. Those are flat tops with maybe 7cc worth in valve reliefs. Going to be high. Especially oif your heads are small chambers.
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Those pistons I believe ate shorter then stockers to account for decking the block during a rebuild. Assuming your engine is stick and the bores are good, you could easily look at a deck height of .040. that with the pre-entered 6.6cc in the calculator I use, coupled with a later 58cc chamber and the average .041 head gasket, I come up with 9.99:1.
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And then we got winter
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Guess my 360 is bored 030



And my second engine is on the way over the atlantic ocean

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Ok.. so i need a new dayly driver, and found this 74 Hornet for sale...
Spoke to the owner and i might drive down and pick it up next weekend

258/904

It's in ruff shape, but drives and stops



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The Hornet i bought and was going to drive home yesterday have a major oil leak between engine and trans.. so i had to trailer it home today


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Some pictures of the hornet i just got home.. the 258 in it leaks like heck
Think the last owner drove it without oil, so it needs a new engine.. so i will give it the engine from my marador, the matador will get a 360 later
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Amazing that here in the US, no one will tow with less than a pickup and you pull a 2 axle trailer with a car on it with a Saab 9000
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Originally posted by mitchito mitchito wrote:

Amazing that here in the US, no one will tow with less than a pickup and you pull a 2 axle trailer with a car on it with a Saab 9000


And the Saab struggled hard
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Ring and bearing kit orderd for the 360 build.
The 360 i bought here on the forum just arrived in Norway so i hope i can pick it up one of the next days.

And i need to start with the engine swap on the hornet
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