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9-29-2013
9-29-2013
I would decide if you are going to stick with the Regal or keep looking for a Skylark before you decide to cut your frame apart... Only cut the car up if you are going to keep it, otherwise just hold out for a Skylark.
One huge advantage the 70-72 GM A body have over lots of other cars is that they can fit large tires in the stock non modified wheel wells. Generally you can fit a 30" tall 12" wide tire but the 28 tall and 12" tire is very popular.
There is nothing to take pictures of in the rear suspension really, it is stock geometry with adjustable uppers and tubular lowers, new bushings. There is no work done to the fenders, frame, or even wheel well lips this is all bone stock. The 315/50R15 fits although the 295/55R15 gives lots of room and no need for a raised ride height or trimming anything. I have fit as tall as a 285/70R15 (31.5" tall in there however it would need a bit of trimming on the wheel well lip to fit well.
10-3-2013
Thanks!
Next week we are doing the final assembly on the good engine and then dropping it in the car! The engine assembly will be documented and photographed for the book.
Many sites only list them as a 28X12.5R15 which is the same as the 295/55R15:
http://www.mickeythompsontires.com/s...ETStreetRadial
90000000974 3755R P295/55R15 28 X 12.50R15
Well I found a guy getting rid of a "stock 400 SBC", but when I went to look at it there were AFR alum heads on the engine... Scored the whole engine complete from carb to oil pan for $700... A friend of mine is retiring from building stock car engines and he just got his last SBC bottom end assembled and needs some heads.... Then traded the AFR heads to my stock car buddy in exchange for ALL his engine building and measuring tools which are worth over $2800, he was happy to give them to a friend not a stranger. Now I still have the rest of the 400 and and an engine stand that came with it... Selling the 400 for cheap to another friend and keeping the stand. Great day!
10-10-2013
The pistons have a 15 CC dish, sit 59 thou in the hole, and static compression works out to 8.9:1 which is about as high as I would want to go being turbocharged. I set the ring gaps slightly looser than for a naturally aspirated build.
