440 CI update?

[Paul Workman]

So, AL!

What is the latest on your 440 project? Howzit comin?:)

P.

[Bob G]

Hi Paul I Am Picking Up My 427 From The Machine Shop Today It is ready For Me To Assemble. Al's Block Is AT the cnc Shop His Sleves & Pistons Have Not Arrived Yet .
Have You Recieved Your Exhaust Yet? I Am Starting To Get Excited About Puting My Car Together
Bob G:dancing

[XfireZ51]

Hi Paul I Am Picking Up My 427 From The Machine Shop Today It is ready For Me To Assemble. Al's Block Is AT the cnc Shop His Sleves & Pistons Have Not Arrived Yet .
Have You Recieved Your Exhaust Yet? I Am Starting To Get Excited About Puting My Car Together
Bob G:dancing

Bob,

What did you decide on with the MagnaFlow? Did you look at the one on eBay? He has some good pics on it. Turns out he's a hotrodder and has built some pretty fast stuff. Some pretty good pics of the system too.

Here it is on eBay for 550.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MAGNAFLOW-92-96-CORVETTE-16837-3-INCH-EXHAUST-SYSTEM_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ72Q3a1205Q7c66Q 3a2Q7c65Q3a12Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318Q7c301Q3a0Q7c29 3Q3a1Q7c294Q3a50QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZi tem220328589575QQitemZ220328589575QQptZMotorsQ5fCa rQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

[Paul Workman]

Hi Paul I Am Picking Up My 427 From The Machine Shop Today It is ready For Me To Assemble. Al's Block Is AT the cnc Shop His Sleves & Pistons Have Not Arrived Yet .
Have You Recieved Your Exhaust Yet? I Am Starting To Get Excited About Puting My Car Together
Bob G:dancing

Just arrived yesterday! Beautiful, but I haven't had a chance to do much more than inventory the pieces. What pieces do you want to see and where/when do you want to meet?

P.

[Paul Workman]

Bob,

What did you decide on with the MagnaFlow? Did you look at the one on eBay? He has some good pics on it. Turns out he's a hotrodder and has built some pretty fast stuff. Some pretty good pics of the system too.

Here it is on eBay for 550.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MAGNAFLOW-92-96-CORVETTE-16837-3-INCH-EXHAUST-SYSTEM_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ72Q3a1205Q7c66Q 3a2Q7c65Q3a12Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318Q7c301Q3a0Q7c29 3Q3a1Q7c294Q3a50QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZi tem220328589575QQitemZ220328589575QQptZMotorsQ5fCa rQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

FWIW, I paid $592 delivered to my door from Magnaflow.

P.

[-=Jeff=-]

Just arrived yesterday! Beautiful, but I haven't had a chance to do much more than inventory the pieces. What pieces do you want to see and where/when do you want to meet?

P.

Bob wants to see, the X-Pipe and Resonator and a muffler from the system.

that is what he and I discussed when I talked to him last week

[XfireZ51]

Bob wants to see, the X-Pipe and Resonator and a muffler from the system.

that is what he and I discussed when I talked to him last week

That eBay listing has pretty good pics of that. It shows the resonator as a straight thru.

[-=Jeff=-]

That eBay listing has pretty good pics of that. It shows the resonator as a straight thru.

No that's the muffler

[Bob G]

Hi Paul I would like to see The xpipe ,resonator & one Muffler.
If it's during The Day Friday would be the as soon as I could Make it Whats Your schedule Look Like? I ordered My stainless works Headers Today
Bob G

[Polo-1]

I NEED MORE 440 INFO!!!!!!!!!!!:mrgreen:

Did you have LA sleeve make the liners or?? Im in the middle of my 402 build, have not made the pistons yet. If the big bore (4.100/125 ) are going to be ready soon I'll wait. A 427 sounds better to me, then my 402.

[Bob G]

No Body would make the liners They Said The Block Was to week, So we used a set of Blanks had them machined by a cnc shop They made blue prints of the sleves Then To save a step we sent them to darton to have them made again turned down. they would have to buy new tooling to make the water holes in the flanges, Not cost effective they told us.
Now we have a cnc program written.

Next the block Went To Another Cnc Shop To be Machined for the sleves with a .0015 Press fit Top & Bottom.
Then Back to the engine shop To be bored & honed to fit pistons, & check Crank line bore to see if anything moved, It didn't
Now I Will Assemble It And Be Ready For BG
Bob G:dancing

[Polo-1]

Is it a complete bottom end yet? pictures:wave:

[Bob G]

almost I Broke A Second Ring Putting It Together But I Have Been Taking Pictures As Soon As I Can Get My Wife To Post Them I Will
Bob G

[Paul Workman]

almost I Broke A Second Ring Putting It Together But I Have Been Taking Pictures As Soon As I Can Get My Wife To Post Them I Will
Bob G

Once you "pathfinders" have blazed a trail thru the CNC programming and parts sources...I'm very curious to hear what the prevailing $$ tag is going to be for tossin' a set of sleeves an buckets in to our LT5s is going to be? I thought I read somewhere that a conversion (depending on needing a crank, etc,) might be well under $10k?? THAT would put a lot of us over to the "dark side" for sure!!

P.

[Polo-1]

current "440" 4.100/.125 bore blocks are from $6,500 to $13,500

This is the range I have heard from the 3 big bore guys, This is only the block and sleeve work. You must have the bucks and will to go this route. As the cost for the rest of your stroker is added into from the price above.

[diamond zr1]

Polo-1 /just stick with 402 and turbo it.If the lt5@ 402 runs anything like my ls2 @ 402 turbo you will love it.I would like to see a lt5 turbo.If I ever take my 368 down,it will get turbos. joe

[Polo-1]

How is the build going, any news.

[ALZR1]

441 update motor is assembled,and cams are tuned. i'm waiting for my plenum
to come back from the powder coater.Hopefully by next week i'll have it running.I also took A bunch of pics that i'll post soon.


Al.481484485

[rkreigh]

sweet! we just need to get nelson or somebody to step up and make a cnc billet block to allow these big bore deals

13,500 to mod the block is a bit much.

who was the "big guy" who would do it for 6,500

pretty big price range!!:icon_scra

[Polo-1]

Word on the street is the 440 is running.

AL :dontknow:

[-=Jeff=-]

Word on the street is the 440 is running.

AL :dontknow:


Yes and is it a MONSTER

[XfireZ51]

Pete,

I heard the same thing standing
behind Wayne's Pizza joint Friday.
Couldn't hear much tho with all the damned rumbling
going on.

[ALZR1]

Word on the street is the 440 is running.

AL :dontknow:

Yeh it's running Kevin and running well,I just have to put some miles on it before I really get on it.I have been doing half throttle pulls to about
4000 RPM it feels very strong.

AL.

[LGAFF]

Al, Pete told me last week that anyone can build HP with cubes, he said the real talent is doing it with a stock block.:wave:


(Yes, I am taunting to see if we can get a Pete/Al shootout at the track)

:happy1:

[Pete]

Lee, you missed pizza Friday night.
If you only heard 441 LT5 cubic inches the sound is freaking awesome and scary.

I would need a 150 shot to line up next to it.

427ci coming soon to a Registry near you. :-)


Pete

[LGAFF]

Pete,

I was going to wait but I will go ahead and announce it, I am working with the famous welder, JB, to Epoxy together all three of my ZR1 engines giving me 1050 cubes and over 1300hp.

We are currently cutting up both of my perfectly good ZR-1s and the entire thing can be see on the Discovery Channels new show:
Monstrosity Garage.

[Polo-1]

Yeh it's running Kevin and running well,I just have to put some miles on it before I really get on it.I have been doing half throttle pulls to about
4000 RPM it feels very strong.

AL.

Of coarse, break it in easy. I'm glad to hear it's running, no head gasket problems. Not making metal, all the scary stuff you would worry about on a new mountain motor.

:worship:

[ALZR1]

Of coarse, break it in easy. I'm glad to hear it's running, no head gasket problems. Not making metal, all the scary stuff you would worry about on a new mountain motor.

:worship:


No problems at all Kevin.



AL.

[USAFPILOT]

When are you planning on selling it? :worship:

[ALZR1]

When are you planning on selling it? :worship:

For the right price Everything is for sale.



AL.