I bought a Hemi - Project Lit'lphant

[oldeskewltoy]

(12-31-2019 12:25 PM)Project D Wrote:  Protractor to set properly the angle on the new push rod "guide" ?
(Push rod stuff are totally uncommon here so I have no idea)

On a side note, clamping that cast piece directly on the vice make me cringe. I hope they are soft jaw.
I would have gone with a 1 2 3 block and strap clamps, or better, an aluminium block with tapped hole matching the one on the part (even for a "one time" job it would make sense since you have 4 of them)

The vice is only holding the lifter bore housing so we could insert the bar stock into the lifter bores so we could measure "lifter bank angle".



Without knowing the lifter bank angle we can not hope to learn the camshaft lobe center lines.

Why do we need to know that?? I'm changing the whole engine, all the specs I found show peak power occurring @ about 4400 rpm, additionally it originally was designed for use in their top of the line limo - so smooth operation/idle was important. I'm changing all of that, I'm hoping to push peak power rpm to about 5600(redline @ 6000), and to introduce a small amount of lope at idle

Sooo... the camshaft centerline is now the focus, for a smooth idle, and low rpm peak power, the likely centerline is around 116 to 118, maybe even higher, but to attain my goal, the likely centerline is closer to 110-112.



more to come....