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Just bought a mystery 401! Need opinions? |
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JolleyGreenSST
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White70JavelinSST
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All 401 blocks are essentially the same block. The 77 year was just as good as any of the prior years and I want to say one year before production of 401 engines ceased. I believe 78 was the last year a 401 was manufactured. |
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Boris Badanov
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Junk the intake.
Your block was cast by AMC in Canada. Earlier blocks were cast by GM "CFD". Some say the CFD was better.... I will guess that the difference means little. |
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PHAT69AMX
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I no longer have a hot rod, but have a bunch of Holley stuff, including a couple Spreadbore to Square Flange Aluminum Adapters, maybe a 1-Hole and a 4-Hole. But I fail to remember if the AutoLite Spreadbore is unique to itself or if it is the same as a GM / Chev Spreadbore... On a different note, if considering an upgrade to the stock bridged rockers, Scorpion used to offer a bolt-on Roller Rocker kit for the AMC Bridged Rocker Heads that requires no machining iirc. You may be just in time to pre-order one of the yet introduced NEW Design Edelbrock AMC Intake Manifolds, but it may still be to far out in availability, if so find yourself and Edelbrock AMC Torker Intake... I share your excitement... a newly acquired 401 just begging for some "love"...
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Sonic Silver
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farna
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I thought the Autolite carb used a Holley bolt pattern? Of course spread bore carb would only fit on an intake with one large opening...
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Sonic Silver
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Edited by Sonic Silver - Oct/26/2018 at 8:39am |
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PHAT69AMX
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Does this here picture seem to show that an AutoLite AMC Spreadbore Carb Bolt Pattern
is the same as a Holley Square Flange Carb Bolt Pattern but different Butterfly holes where a QuadraJet Spreadbore has that AND also a different Mounting Flange Bolt Hole pattern ? If that IS the case, the adapters I have, (1) 4-Hole & (1) 1-Hole would / should / "might" work... Lookin' at 2nd pic, guess not, small primary bores are closer together on the AutoLite than the QuadraJet... Edited by PHAT69AMX - Oct/26/2018 at 7:14pm |
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JolleyGreenSST
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I think i have a spreadbore to squarebore adapter already somewhere so I'll try to find it and see if it works, but that doesn't sound likely... I tore down the engine a bit further. and unfortunately the pistons are .030 over already, so I'm not sure it can be rebuilt or not but the cylinder walls on this side look ok, I'm probably just going to keep tearing it down and take it to a shop to have it inspected and go from there... what do you guys think?
I tried to get a reading with my caliper, not sure how close the readings were but I was getting between 4.180-4.190 per cylinder... shouldn't it be 4.195 at 30 over? Also I couldn't really feel any kind of noticeable ridge with my nail at the top of the bore... cross hatching looks ok so far, do you guys think the 30 over rebuild didn't hace many miles on it before the last guy tore it down and re-ringed it and honed it? Honestly guys I've done some work before but I'm no expert on machine work and blok specs. so your opinions would help. Thanks. Edited by JolleyGreenSST - Oct/26/2018 at 7:30pm |
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JolleyGreenSST
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Yeah that looks pretty different... but I have a performer and a torker manifold, the only reason I'm not going with the torker is because I dont want the power level that high with the stock 998 trans.. I was thinking of using the torker on the javelin and the performer on the J10 but my J10 runs pretty good even with the 2bbl and I don't want to swap the trans on the javelin any time soon because the engine is already going to cost me some change so I'm hoping the trans is good? |
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