Rebuilding a 283 Small Block for a Daily Driver C10 - HorsePower S12, E7

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is helping the truck and air tank guys, all kinds of body parts, even a steering column man, they have a lot more work to do than us, just look at this clip from the front of The bed doesn't look very good either, the police. I have it at full blast, do you know what they worked with? Well, our

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mission today is to rebuild an engine for this, so C10, nothing special, just a basic

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for what will hopefully become a classic tailgater, you know what. It's those guys and trucks. It will always be big after this Kevin and Ryan brought it in a few weeks ago took out the old engine shortened the bed frame powder coated the frame and installed an air suspension system.

Hey, you don't have to guess the engine when Last week we completely took down the old 283, first draining the fluids, then removing the accessories, the water pump inlet, and of course the valvetrain. Then after the oil pan came out we removed the timing assembly, then removed the cam, removed the rods and pistons and finally the crankshaft. completely preparing it to be machined, good friend, you brought the 283 with four axles, now, what did you do to it in the workshop? Well, once we got it down here, we cleaned it up, I bored it down to the piston, honed it in the clearances, and then cleaned it up.

He repainted it and made it look great. Did you have any surprises or anything during the machine? Everything worked very well on this one. In fact, it still had GM bearings. Well, let's put it together well. Let's rebuild all the bearings first. came from Seal Power and first we are using the installation tool to install a cam brain and let's not forget to line up the oil hole in the bearing with the oil groove in the

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and here is our rotating assembly including the original crank that had spun and balanced for our pistons and connecting rods, oh speaking of which, our original connecting rods before and after, after reconditioning and resizing with new ARP bolts, we now had to look for new rings and these sealing power pistons, aluminum parts Flat top suspension pistons. on the rods, warm up the piston a little, then the

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end of the rod, now the wrist pin slides into the rod quite easily.

Okay, there's a front and a back for each piston and the rod now on the pistons will be marked with a little. F a notch or an arrow once you determine where the front is and you know which cylinder is going into a Chevrolet engine the bearing notches will point down okay Rob bearings are next now these are high bearings performance or racing, there is an upper and a lower one, but since they are standard, there is none, so they go in any location, so you line up the bearing and the bearing tab on the rod, place it on the same than the cover.

Well, after installing the connecting rod bearings, you want to check the clearances between them. your rod that supports your crankshaft when I was doing the machine work on these you already made your clearances should be two to three thousand okay I'm working on the piston to do my triangulation for my oil ring your ring expander will go on this mark when you install it, make sure the two spaces stay together and your other oil ring will start down here on this other line, put the bottom one on first, okay, your second ring will have a point that goes up, the top ring will also have a point that also goes up and that's it, the rear main seal can be put into place and after thoroughly cleaning the saddles I'm ready to install the bearings and some assembly lube and finally we'll put the crank on in place now with the lubricated bearings in the covers.

We can put them in now, this is not a high performance engine so we are using stock main bolts. Always remember to torque from the center outward with graduated torque settings, in our case from 30 foot-pounds to the final 75. Well, with that we can go ahead and install our rods and pistons and hey, you don't have to have these plastic bolt protectors to get the job done; In fact, a couple of pieces of rubber hose will be enough; in fact, even duct tape in a pinch, here's a tip. make sure the hoses are pointing outwards, they'll guide much better towards the crank, buddy, thanks a lot, sure, remember the dot is facing forward and she's ready to go home and we turn her around, okay, let me take them off, I don't think so.

I'm going to save them well now that these rod caps can continue and you know you got the right combination, if these numbers here match, how about a little bit similar? I mean, getting the torque right, so that's next and matching the torque. my sister is going to work, you know what the specs are, 40 foot-pounds, I'm sure that's fine, thanks Joe, now sit down and I'll finish up the pistons and when we get back from break we'll finish this 283, hey. Welcome back as you can see I'm still here but Joe and Mike took me too literally and went to sit together somewhere but that's okay because I'm going to go ahead and show you how to finish this 283 because after all.

I'm the brains behind this operation, just kidding, but I'm the most handsome, as you can see. I'm quick, here's our bypass valve with the new O-ring and then comes the oil filter adapter plate, our Summit oil pump. With the pickup already welded in place, after cleaning the holes to prevent leaks we can install the freeze plugs, now the front oil stove plugs can go in and here's a tip: use a hammer and chisel to fix plugs in place now. I'm warming up the timing gear for a few minutes and that way it slides right into place, since our Edelbrock cam is flat top hydraulic, it needs a lot of assembly lube and a little oil on the journals.

Our timing kit also came from Edelbrock including their dual roller timing chain if you like to save money and who doesn't nowadays, here's something that might surprise you: it might actually cost more to reuse these old iron heads originals than buying a new pair like these original replacements we are going to use. of the world's products that's when you take into account all the machining and analysis that would be needed to use them, by the way, these are new, that has to be a good deal, hey handsome, these are heavy, come on, help me now with fel-pro joints.

These heavy heads can be set in place by applying a little sealant to the ARP head bolts before tightening them. Hi sir. Brainiac, do you want me to suck these into the oil? Go ahead and lubricate them. Let's go ahead and weave because we're going to go ahead and bait it later. Well, these lifters came from Edelbrock and we're using the same assembly lubricant that we used. on the camshaft and plenty of it Now, once these guys are in place, I can install this stock valley breather with a few hammer blows. That's okay, after cleaning old pushrods or installing new ones, you'll always want to look down through the center hole. and make sure there are no obstructions because if there are you will have a rocker arm failure and don't forget to lubricate the lifter just before the push rod goes in.

Also don't forget to lubricate the tips of the push rods because if not they will Squeal like a pig now we can install these summit rockers, they have a 1:5 ratio and a full swivel eye trunnion. Now when you install them, make sure the valve fits are nice and flat, then use this way to do this. Crank the engine until either valve begins to open. See in this case it's the exhaust, so our exhaust starts to open. Let's adjust our input. You can see how much it sways back and forth. You want to tighten a nut down. until there is no more sway, then tighten three quarters of a turn more, tighten the set screw and then tighten them both together and that will lock that one in, so we'll go ahead and turn the motor over the inlet so it starts to open. catch it at the back when it starts to close, do the same with the exhaust, okay, usually a machine shop will put these oil stove plugs in, but if not they just put some sealing on them and then install them, good now same.

I'm taping the block off so we can go ahead and paint it Chevy orange and now my friend will install the timing cover. This dual color engine polish can withstand heat up to 500 degrees, now the intake gaskets are held in place with a little silicone on the ends, then of course a generous bead on the end pads, now we can configure this Edelbrock Performer EPS intake manifold. We've given it a silicone job here on the intake bolts. Kevin brought us these old cast Edelbrock valve covers and they did a nice job painting them to match the block, then it's time for this harmonic balancer from Summit and using some Loctite retaining compound and a good old wood block, we hammer in a new oil filler network, finally this factory valley that we are reusing when Kevin and Ryan get their engine back, they are going to run this Edelbrock mechanical fuel pump, now we won't need it since we are going to run the engine in the test bench, so I'll install this block off the board right now. to take a break when we get back you'll see this finished engine in the test room and then we'll go ahead and do some surveys we're back and almost ready to run this little block we just built yeah.

Interesting to see what this little 283 is, a little better in stock. We will put it in stock, say 250, to help you fill it after the original block is machined. We made it rugged but no-frills, with new and refurbished rotating assembly components. Then do it still. cheap iron heads a hydraulic cam with a flat tappet and a valve tray Mike and his friend applied their art with new orange paint people were installing a new dual plane intake and a harmonic balancer okay, let's use a water pump Proform electric, the coolest 283 and the guys The trucks will take care of the accessory drive now we're ready to get them ready for oil pressure, so we're very close to running this now to feed it.

We're going to use this Edelbrock 600 CFM four-cylinder. Now let's have air. secondary valves and an electric choke, we can now bolt a set of these summit headers to the block, install an Excel distributor along with the aroma of their header plugs and to finish off here we have installed Taylor Thunderbolt cables that most of the People probably think they are driven. The fuel ran out with the eight-track, but it is still available, but only in a racing fuel that costs much more than unleaded fuel. One of our advantages in using the heads we chose is that they have hardened seats that allow us to run on any type. of unleaded fuel we want today we are running this one on 87 octane here we go engine, fire it up on the first ignition and half the usual warm up we are ready almost needs more time man 264 horsepower 297 pound-feet of torque which is pretty impressive of this little 283 I think it's about time we brought Kevin and Ryan here.

I'll let him see how much it's worth if you go, what do you think? I guess that's my guess, I would say 255, yeah. I'd be happy with what you know, yes, very good, it ran much better than I thought, 270 horsepower and 301 lb-ft of torque at 3,600 better than I expected, yes, that will be a great little stock in Japan rebuilt for 83 shot, that's all we need, it has to be a little pumpkin, we'll give them the dyno run sheet and then we'll save it and give you another piece of paper which is your invoice, oh yeah right , put it on our account, yes, no, we need a favor also for that price that comes installed, right?

Yeah, I bet the bill disappears, yeah, get lost, like that horsepower file almost did. You'll see what we're talking about in a minute, man, that's pretty good and I'm bad. Not at all, I'm surprised, I'm going to show you something that has been seen by a large neutral before defending a dozen years of horsepower projects, some took a day, some took several days, that was a project that has been unfinished for a year here. the horse's gut files hey, any chance you recognize this car, well you're about to. Oh, it's not just another late-model Mustang GT, it's actually a project car we called the Stroker that stuck around last year and finally returned for a big power payoff.

Now we will do it. I'll tell you why it took so long here in a moment, let's get you up to speed. We broke new ground by installing a stroke kit on theMustang leg sled that is after a benchmark test with the original 4.6-liter engine that generates 265 horsepower. on the rear wheels and then the engine and transmission came out from the bottom later in Huntsville, the engine and performance are aligned in house, the mains were polished, the cylinders were polished, the heads registered and machined for a job three angle valve in house, installed the race kit and Eagle iron crank Eagle mats and aluminum pistons for Mary's, we also installed new crane camps and as a bonus added underdrive pulleys and long tube headers from BBK.

Finally, bolting a new Zoom dual-disc clutch underneath, we installed a lighter four-dancer driveshaft. we breathed even better we added a throttle body, cold air kit and the short x pipe with BBK cats plus Magnaflow mid pipes and mufflers for better shifting, we installed a super profile shifter to finish the project which we had in the inferior GT sitting on cast spoke wheels from the tire rack and Yokohama advan spur Robert, this Mustang handles very well now has Eibach springs and Millstein shocks, plus larger wheels and tires, the real appeal is all the power that this valve 302 3 puts into the ground.

Well, once again, you can have fun, that's how it usually goes well, finally we'll see what this o7 GT does on our chassis test bench and hey, hey, you're like our new portable ramp, anyway, the reason. it's taking so long is this when we first turned it on after those upgrades it made a terrible noise so we sent it back to the owner in Eagle and this is the problem: the factory cam phasor was not working with the cam biggest aftermarket, so important. Timing issues are the bottom line: the aftermarket cam is the same as the aftermarket Campese.

Well, we can finally see how this Mustang handles quarters like a thoroughbred and also made three hundred and seventy-eight horsepower and 374 pound-feet of Well, we can finally close the case on the project. The stinky smell of the Stroker. Hot rods need to exhale to make good power and they also need to sound tough to make a good impression. Now Magnaflow makes high performance exhaust systems like this for a GM body. They are factory tested for proper fit and come with everything you need for easy installation, like mandrel-bent tubing to prevent restrictions and a straight-through stainless steel muffler for good tone, plus all the proper hardware.

Now the price is quite correct, starting. For around six hundred and fifty-five dollars, if you have an appetite for weekend drag racing, this is a great way to fuel your high-performance race engine: the BLP Products 1432 CFM carburetor that comes with a Enlarged radius profile, throttle holes, billet measurement. Fully adjustable fuel blocks and circuits, but here's the cool part, a full jet kit that allows two steps up or down for all those changes you have to make at the track, now comes slowly tested and ready to go. It offers a price of approximately 1550, speaking well. of carbs next time we will show you a cheap way to upgrade a single intake carburetor and you should join us, see you then.