Project "Thunderstruck" - KJWildman's never-ending V8 swap

KJWildman · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:36 pm

Part of what I picked up and brought home tonight! :BANANA:

I'll post more pics of what this bolts to tomorrow!! Didn't get the camera out until it was too late. Too dark now.

KJWildman · **Posted:** Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:34 pm

Well, I just got the first of the 3 Big Items I need for my small backyard KJ modification! :BANANA:

I don't really know all that's in it except what I was told. It's suppose to be a +.060 302 "with a cam". (Troy, is that a 347 or do I need to find out if they used longer rods?)I'm going to pull valve covers and maybe the pan and take a peek at how it's been treated. I may be able to tell if better rods were used from the bottom. I don't think head gaskets are much for these so I might even pull the heads and look at the condition of the inside. But then again, maybe I'll just worry about getting it in there first and then take it back out to go through it a little bit before I fire it up. :juggle:

I'll get it on the engine stand this afternoon and start cleaning it up and looking at it.

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JustinP · **Posted:** Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:47 pm

Any idea what the "T" fitting next to the distributor is? I may just be looking at the pic wrong but the best I could come up with was maybe an ugly way to hook up an EGR system to the Edelbrock intake. Im just curious.

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:48 pm

You have a 306-308,a 347 uses a stroker crank and rods.

I hope you didn't pay alot,that is some jerry-rigged looking engine from looking at the 3rd pic :shock:

.Plan on rebuilding it and/or actually having it blue printed and freshened up(new bearings,seals,gaskets).Good time to have it balanced also.

Oh and throw that carb away and get a man carb(AKA Holley).

KJWildman · **Posted:** Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:26 pm

PMed ya Troy.

99_XC600 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:57 am

What happened to the plan's of using the powerplant from the Mustang II?

tommudd · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 9:22 am

99_XC600 wrote:

What happened to the plan's of using the powerplant from the Mustang II?

Larrrys the type of guy who orders two drinks at a time at the bar :5SHOTS:

who gets the wrong size tires and then starts cutting to make them fit :shock:

who starts out to do a tune up and progresses from the stock KJ motor, to a Mustang V6 to a 302 Ford to...... next a jet engine, :shock:

oh remind me never to run a trail behind him after he does that install! :goink:

KJWildman · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 11:17 am

tommudd wrote:

99_XC600 wrote:

What happened to the plan's of using the powerplant from the Mustang II?

Larrrys the type of guy who orders two drinks at a time at the bar :5SHOTS:

TRUE
who gets the wrong size tires and then starts cutting to make them fit :shock:

TRUE
who starts out to do a tune up and progresses from the stock KJ motor, to a Mustang V6 to a 302 Ford to...... next a jet engine, :shock:

oh remind me never to run a trail behind him after he does that install! :goink:

TRUE well ... maybe not the Jet engine :roll:

thinking .... Hmmmm ... Thanks Tom ... I have a new idea! :ROTFL:

Well...... Tom's not too far off the mark!!!! They don't call me "Wildman" for nothing! :ROTFL:

And I didn't start with the handle of "Wildman". I was being called that by several members of the board after a while and I had my name changed.

I'm like .... Smith/Barney investments .... I earned it!!!! :-)r

99_XC600 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:42 pm

tommudd wrote:

99_XC600 wrote:

What happened to the plan's of using the powerplant from the Mustang II?

Larrrys the type of guy who orders two drinks at a time at the bar :5SHOTS:

who gets the wrong size tires and then starts cutting to make them fit :shock:

who starts out to do a tune up and progresses from the stock KJ motor, to a Mustang V6 to a 302 Ford to...... next a jet engine, :shock:

oh remind me never to run a trail behind him after he does that install! :goink:

Understood. Plans may change at any time with no explanation or reason.

So at the end of the project, Can I expect it to evolve into a 2 door convertible with a boomin system?

Jeepin_it_real · **Posted:** Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:02 am

hey if you gunna do all this work you should go all out... build a roll cage or exo skeleton... protect the most important thing in that KJ... the booze its gunna take to finish it...... then yourself! :5SHOTS:

JeepMorrison · **Joined:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:34 am **Posts:** 1236

JustinP wrote:

Any idea what the "T" fitting next to the distributor is? I may just be looking at the pic wrong but the best I could come up with was maybe an ugly way to hook up an EGR system to the Edelbrock intake. Im just curious.

That goes into the water jacket, this line goes to the heater core. the tee is a cutom part..... i would drop a FE motor into the liberty.....

KJWildman · **Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:30 pm

Got a full engine overhaul gasket kit this week. May not need everything in it but the full on package was only $47 ! I'm already liking this! Cheap parts!!!! Also got a gear drive timing set and ordered the engine swap motor mounts for a narrow frame Jeep from Novak Conversions. I could almost hear the guy's eyes pop out when I told him what I was doing. He said he hadn't heard of anyone doing this yet. He also requested pics of the install! :BANANA:

I'm also ordering either Mallory or MSD ignition & distributor this weekend and maybe picking up the trans and tansfer case. :pepper:

WooHoooo Progress .... slow .... but still progress! :pepper:

InCommando · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 5:18 am

Unless you get a truck avenger, Holley's need a ton of work to do well in off-camber suff. The AFB pictured can be easily modified for decent off-road performance.

TAHOE · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:05 pm

I dunno... the valve covers should only have 4 bolts and the distributor is at the wrong end of the motor.... :mrgreen:

it'll never run right :jester:

The eldebrocks are okay for out of the box performance, usually good tuning from the start. Holley's are much better for all out performance, but can be finicky sometimes.

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:32 pm

Screw carbs,time for EFI :2cents:

http://www.jegs.com/i/Edelbrock/350/35210/10002/-1?parentProductId=1032945

DirtyKK · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:35 pm

$3200

Im sure hes on some kind of budget and this is out of the price range :wink:

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:46 pm

DirtyKK wrote:

$3200

Im sure hes on some kind of budget and this is out of the price range :wink:

That's cheap,some kits can run $10,000+.

With a mod like this you can not have a budget,you will never stay under it anyways.

DirtyKK · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:53 pm

You can always make some kind of a budget and of course plan on extra expenses. Not everybody rolls in the dough like apparently you do. If he was to spend $3200 on that he could have started off with a better fuel injected motor anyway.

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