Twin Turbo Skylark 350 Progress by sean Buick 76

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Santa brought some new Buick's for Shane and I:

2/10/16

Just got off the phone with Blake who bought my old car. He says the car is now up and running well. They are heading to the dyno soon and I will take the day off to see this as well. The car presently has a fully fresh 350 with balanced assembly of 74 rods, arp bolts in rods and mains, TRW pistons, 9.3:1, stock camshaft (you will love this Gary!), ported iron heads with stock valve size, and X factor intake with blow through Holley carb. 200R4 by CK Performance, 3.42 Moser 12 bolt, all new suspension, steering, 4 wheel disk. new interior etc.

2/20/16

Not much new with the Buick, but I have been busy buying and selling vehicles, and collecting stuff...I normally would never buy a Ford but this one was a super deal so I grabbed it:

1991 Ford F-350 with 460, 5 speed overdrive manual, 4x4, 4.10 gears, 10 foot tilt flat deck, 25,000 pound PTO winch. It even has an engine hoist setup that mounts into the flat deck.











Well I have been up to my old tricks... Got some more Buick 350 engines for pretty much free:





My new enclosed trailer, dirty, but darn nice unit. That is my friends truck he loaned to me but it pulls well.





A friends Vette that just got painted:





Most of the snow melted it has been WARM:

3/2/16

I was going to pull it out this winter anyway so I set the boost at 20 psi and rev limiter at 8000 and wanted to see what would break:



It spun a rod bearing and blew a head gasket. 3rd time on the same gasket found it was a warped and that's why it kept blowing gaskets. The oil pressure was low on the engine to start with and the early rods and stock pistons somehow survived the beating.

Now I just need to decide if I want to swap in one of my good engines or wait till the girdled alum head engine is ready. I am leaning towards waiting for the girdled engine as I have a ton of car and truck projects going on right now.

3/15/16

Getting ready to assemble a good engine with Herche rods and Diamond Pistons, just waiting for a custom Scotty Brown cam... And I have to clear out some chevy and ford engines!!









Got my cool old chevy truck outfitted, body work will be done this summer:



And got a spare 460 for my tow truck: