Got her running!!!! (1 Viewer)

[CruisinFJ60]

Still a lot of things to do before it is trail ready or even move out of the shop ready, but last night I fired the engine I, with my own hands, assembled.

5.7l SBC 350, stock bore and stroke. 10.17:1 compression with .015 compressed steel shim head gaskets, -6cc flat top pistons, 64cc iron Vortec heads, a "quiet" gear drive spins the Lunati 10120701 cam (advanced 4 degrees on install), Rhodes hydraulic flat tappet lifters, Edelbrock RPM Air Gap intake manifold. Ignition is a 65k volt "high performance" HEI with MSD electronics inside and adjustable rev limit. Fuel is 100% propane.

This is the third start, the initial start and smoke show is also available

 

[joekatana]

Come on don't be shy show us the smoke and sputtering show

Congrats dude.....any idea what will be the first weakest link on it now.(besides to much skinny pedal)

 

[CruisinFJ60]

This is the first time this engine ran.

 

[CruisinFJ60]

Weak link will be one of the front axle shafts is my guess, . I know that I am gonna have a speeding problem already, much less wanting to throttle up something just cause I can. This is a very snappy, very solid 400 CHP. It also stayed a manual and will now have an even deeper crawl ratio at 189:1 vs the 171:1 before. Im still running the stock FJ60 radiator and haven't built a shroud to the mechanical fan on the engine, the thermostat is a 180* and it reached about 205* running it at 2-3k RPM for a half hour, so I think it will be fine there too.

 

[meatloaf]

Looking good Trent...