66 i think
#1
66 i think
Hey
Its been some time since I have been on here but I'm the guy building a 455 for a 78 regal. I am waiting on the heads to be touched up after the 8 months it took me to port them.
Well I found a 66 (i think) toro at a salvage yard, there are lots of nice parts on there, I pulled the motor (by myself in the dirt!!!) and was wondering where I can find an id chart to c what the motor is. B heads and forged crank, 400 or 425?? just pulled cuz I could not bare to c it crushed, and also wanted to let anyone interested know incase they are looking for parts
Thanks
Its been some time since I have been on here but I'm the guy building a 455 for a 78 regal. I am waiting on the heads to be touched up after the 8 months it took me to port them.
Well I found a 66 (i think) toro at a salvage yard, there are lots of nice parts on there, I pulled the motor (by myself in the dirt!!!) and was wondering where I can find an id chart to c what the motor is. B heads and forged crank, 400 or 425?? just pulled cuz I could not bare to c it crushed, and also wanted to let anyone interested know incase they are looking for parts
Thanks
#3
I took the heads off last night and found 1 cylinder a lil rusty but may be so lite a hone will take care of it. It has the 1 piece rocker arm retainer, big valves, good D and E manifolds but I think it is a 39 degree with large diameter lifters.
#5
Has anyone thought of using the stock roller lifters and retainers from a late model 307 in these blocks? I know you would have to have a cam ground for it, would a cam guy not be able to grind a 39 just as easy as a 45? The retainer plate from the 307 bolts exactly in place of the big block cam oil shield....I'm retro fitting stock chevy roller lifters in my 455 is how I know but if you could use the olds rollers it would be easier...something to think about
Last edited by antbanks78; September 22nd, 2011 at 07:03 AM.
#7
Just to clear things up a little,,,, the modern and most common cam angle is 39 deg not 45 so there are plenty of these around. The Toro uses a larger lifter and I think the later model 307 engines even the roller ones use the small lifter... so they will not work in the Toro block at all.
#8
No the late 307 use .9something inch roller lifters...they are to big to fit in my dads 403 and to big to fit in my 455...i have not put a roller lifter in this block but i have a set and if you like I will take a picture?? I have a set of chevys and olds rollers and there is a big difference, I wish they were the same size so I can use the olds retainers, I have to use the chevy retainers with one side cut out because olds lifters are farther apart than the chevys
#9
#10
i just took some pics of the olds rollers in the D block and next to a chevy roller...let me figure out my photobucket thing and I will show you, but only problem is lifter bore is a lil short so still have to make a bushing to extend the bore because the lifter has a notch that goes above the bore and let oil out.
#11
307 roller lifters and retainer in a D block 66 toro 425 fit quite nicely
last pic is of chevy roller next to 2 olds rollers with retainer...if you keep looking in the photos when you click on the pictures you will see some of the stuff I am doing with my 455, mostly fitting chevy rollers to it
last pic is of chevy roller next to 2 olds rollers with retainer...if you keep looking in the photos when you click on the pictures you will see some of the stuff I am doing with my 455, mostly fitting chevy rollers to it
Last edited by sethj78; September 23rd, 2011 at 09:15 AM.
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