I think you already mentioned it in a different video, but the AVR guideplates get installed with the lettering facing down (towards the cylinder head). I just confirmed that by calling AFR tech support, who btw picked up the phone within 30 seconds and had a super fast answer and great customer service.
ThunderHead man I love your videos! You're a really great teacher. I am about to rebuild my 302 and have learned a ton from you! I think you and are from the same area. I would really like to pick your brain on somethings if possible. Can you let me know how to get in touch with you?
My friend has a cast iron head 5.0 and the rockers bolt to head. Not sit on a rocker stud. It looks like the rockers get tightened down till they stop. Every ford small block I've ever done are the older type with the rocker on a stud and they are adjustable. Have u ever seen the type that are held down with a bolt instead of a nut? Are they adjustable? thanks
luke Finley so it doesn't matter which cylinder I do first or last as long as the cam lobe is at the top and the other is at base on cylinder working on?
Do you have to have guide plates? I bought a roller rocker set and it didn’t come with them, it’s just an 89 302 with windsor heads it’s nothing special
It appears you are using roller lifters. Which roller cam did you choose? I built a 302 Mexican Block for my 66 Mustang in 2005, Stroker Crankshafts and kits from Scat, and Eagle were not available then, or I would have stroked it to a 347. I also used TRW L2249nf pistons, and Total Seal rings, but I re-used my 66 289 heads that I had Gromm Racing in San Jose put in new guides, and three angle valve job. I wanted to replace them with World Product or Edelbrock heads but could not afford the expense. Of course AR heads are the best, just expensive for a street engine that is a daily or weekend driver. facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153254541526363&type=1&l=cec7f4047c
+Jose Francisco Medeiros sick frickin ride man. i think im going to drop it in my 65 galaxie for autocross if i dont get it sold here before the summer.
@@ThunderHead289 I did mine your way and followed the firing order for an 85’ roller motor, am I going to have to go back? I thought that’s what you were doing was this method but in firing order… I adjusted to TDC at piston 1 and just rotated the engine from there on until the next pistons lifter in the firing order came all the way up, after adjusting the opposite valve I rotated the engine until the opposite lifter on that piston (that I had just adjusted) was at the cams base…
The afr 165 heads, none emissions units, and the xe266hr comp cam. Was to be a low end torque autocross engine. Wasn't going to spin it over 5500 for longevity sake, so bigger heads and cam wouldn't have been practical.
Could have been better if the camera was closer and the angle was different, as in the front of the motor, so we could actually see.. thanks for considering an edition
Sunn what you're doing will work and will be right but you're taking a long trail around Nova Scotia to get there you absolutely do not need to do all that torque your rocker bolts down till the push rod won't move any more back at off 1/2 return and it will be perfect every time for me that is a crazy waste of time but if you want to play with your motor it is absolutely correct what you're doing but unnecessary if you do that you can run your engine what absolutely 100% no worries guaranteed
Hey dude, nobody cares about your juvenile ford bashing comments. This channel is about loving all classics. I do fords, not because I hate Chevy, it's just what I do. Chill out.
Okay bud first of all chevy guys put chevy motors in fords... Not ford guys putting chevy motors in fords... Get it right dipshit you need our chassis to go fast...
slo car only a troll would come here to boast about Chevys. Any tree monkey can make a Chevy go fast. That's because a long time ago there were so much Chevy parts available to the public market. The Ford parts didn't start to be readily to the public until later on and now the Chevy guys are looking for a place to hide their sorry asses because Ford has levelled the market for parts for just about every engine that they produce. Not to mention that Ford made so many different engined for different applications from tanks, ships, lawn tractors and so on. There are more Ford experimental engines designed and only a few were produced and tested to be too powerful for the time like the 427 for one.
I think you already mentioned it in a different video, but the AVR guideplates get installed with the lettering facing down (towards the cylinder head). I just confirmed that by calling AFR tech support, who btw picked up the phone within 30 seconds and had a super fast answer and great customer service.
So they're backwards?
@@UFOGHOSTHUNTERthats what im gettin too man..wt????
I'll be coming back to this in about a month. Going to be doing GT40P heads on my low compression 78 Fairmont 302.
ThunderHead man I love your videos! You're a really great teacher. I am about to rebuild my 302 and have learned a ton from you! I think you and are from the same area. I would really like to pick your brain on somethings if possible. Can you let me know how to get in touch with you?
Luke, I have a Ford 460. Love the engine, however I have one intake that will not lash. Best advise about next course of action. Lifter or pushrod?
My friend has a cast iron head 5.0 and the rockers bolt to head. Not sit on a rocker stud. It looks like the rockers get tightened down till they stop. Every ford small block I've ever done are the older type with the rocker on a stud and they are adjustable. Have u ever seen the type that are held down with a bolt instead of a nut? Are they adjustable? thanks
luke Finley so it doesn't matter which cylinder I do first or last as long as the cam lobe is at the top and the other is at base on cylinder working on?
Correct 👌
Hey man what size studs were you using for your rocker arms? 7/16 or 5/16 or 3/8?
What did this motor go into?
way under subbed. love the content man🖒
Thanks! Appreciate the kind words!
Thanks for this video.
Thank you this helped a lot
Do you have to have guide plates? I bought a roller rocker set and it didn’t come with them, it’s just an 89 302 with windsor heads it’s nothing special
Pedestal rockers are locked into the correct orientation - they do not need guide plates.
Stud rockers like what I have in the videos do
It appears you are using roller lifters. Which roller cam did you choose? I built a 302 Mexican Block for my 66 Mustang in 2005, Stroker Crankshafts and kits from Scat, and Eagle were not available then, or I would have stroked it to a 347. I also used TRW L2249nf pistons, and Total Seal rings, but I re-used my 66 289 heads that I had Gromm Racing in San Jose put in new guides, and three angle valve job. I wanted to replace them with World Product or Edelbrock heads but could not afford the expense. Of course AR heads are the best, just expensive for a street engine that is a daily or weekend driver.
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+Jose Francisco Medeiros sick frickin ride man. i think im going to drop it in my 65 galaxie for autocross if i dont get it sold here before the summer.
ThunderHead289 Cool, my neighbor Steve Sota's dad, had a 60's Galaxy 500 as far back as 1974 when we first met.
I was under the impression your supposed to do the rocker installs in order of the firing order?
There are a couple ways - that’s doing it on the compression stroke - my way is the safest possible and works for literally any pushrod engine
@@ThunderHead289 I did mine your way and followed the firing order for an 85’ roller motor, am I going to have to go back? I thought that’s what you were doing was this method but in firing order… I adjusted to TDC at piston 1 and just rotated the engine from there on until the next pistons lifter in the firing order came all the way up, after adjusting the opposite valve I rotated the engine until the opposite lifter on that piston (that I had just adjusted) was at the cams base…
Would you recommend locktite on cam bolt?
Spot on. Thanks.
What kind AFR heads your using for the 302 and cam spec if you have or parts nr
The afr 165 heads, none emissions units, and the xe266hr comp cam. Was to be a low end torque autocross engine. Wasn't going to spin it over 5500 for longevity sake, so bigger heads and cam wouldn't have been practical.
You should get more of a close up, on what you're doing, its too hard to see the parts from where the camara
Could have been better if the camera was closer and the angle was different, as in the front of the motor, so we could actually see.. thanks for considering an edition
Camera so far away cant really see anything
Sunn what you're doing will work and will be right but you're taking a long trail around Nova Scotia to get there you absolutely do not need to do all that torque your rocker bolts down till the push rod won't move any more back at off 1/2 return and it will be perfect every time for me that is a crazy waste of time but if you want to play with your motor it is absolutely correct what you're doing but unnecessary if you do that you can run your engine what absolutely 100% no worries guaranteed
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why is it really fast mustangs have chevy motors in them? cause ford motors are junk. wana go fast chevy is the ticket
Hey dude, nobody cares about your juvenile ford bashing comments. This channel is about loving all classics. I do fords, not because I hate Chevy, it's just what I do. Chill out.
Okay bud first of all chevy guys put chevy motors in fords... Not ford guys putting chevy motors in fords... Get it right dipshit you need our chassis to go fast...
slo car only a troll would come here to boast about Chevys. Any tree monkey can make a Chevy go fast. That's because a long time ago there were so much Chevy parts available to the public market. The Ford parts didn't start to be readily to the public until later on and now the Chevy guys are looking for a place to hide their sorry asses because Ford has levelled the market for parts for just about every engine that they produce. Not to mention that Ford made so many different engined for different applications from tanks, ships, lawn tractors and so on. There are more Ford experimental engines designed and only a few were produced and tested to be too powerful for the time like the 427 for one.
How is your channel doing. Zero videos. That's awesome.