Hi guys, I`m new to this board.
Read this question on hydraulics, and 2 replies. Maybe you can help me with figurein a way outta the mess I got myself into, due to lack of experience with the slant 6.
The car I`ll be referin to is a `72 Plymouth Gold Duster (red)with around 15K original miles (garage kept it`s whole life). Was my mother`s car from new, and I owned it from `84 until this year. I decided it was time, since I`m now gittin older (59), and my main hobby interest is with motorcycles, to pass it on to my nephew. He`s 47, not terribly mechanicaly inclined, but takes good care of his stuff.
He wanted to do a dress up/ mild hop up to the origional 6 (225 S6 with auto and air)(I wanted to do this for years, but never got around tuit). I`ve been reading info for quite a while on different methods for mild hop up, and said I`d help him order parts and such. He has an excellent mechanic to do the mechanical work, but the S6 hop up is new to him, as well.
This story`s gettin pretty long, so I`ll cut to the details. Have an Offenhauser 4 barrel manifold, new 390 Holly, Clifford headers, Offy alum valve cover, hi performance electronic distributor (can`t recall name right now), had head cut .080, AND clifford hydraulic cam (hi torque model) with cam kit.
Herein lies the problem (thought clifford`s would have been more help). The `72 is solid, and my thought was to go to hyd for ease of maintance and quieter motor. I figured since the cam and kit was ordered from a 6 expert, should be a bolt in...........WRONG!! Cam and lifters are in, but the pushrods (part of cam kit) are too long. Called clifford`s, not much help, they said the solids and hyd lifters were same length. Well, they`re right, in a way.......body length the same, but hyd has diff length from face to pushrod....... .280 longer!
This, + solid pushrods (where`s the oil come from), leads me to believe I`ve FU!!! I would have thought clifford`s would have, or should have, been able to tell me, when I called with the problems,,,,,,,,what to do, or at least a "this won`t work". Last discussion I had with them was either custom pushrods (they would refund price of thier pushrods when I return), or they will exchange cam and lifters for a solid cam.
I would like to run hyds, but if it`s not feasable, I`ll go solid.
What do you all think!!
Bob