Hello Everyone,

My name is Mykk and this is my engine build.

Started with a freshly rebuilt and freshly blown up TBI 350ci.



At the time of this picture it's a .030" over, .010"/.010" crank.

four bolt, one piece rear, roller cam block. The guy who ran this engine previously converted TBI to Carb, and had it jetted way low so the engine was consistently running lean.. until detonation claimed the piston in Cyl #5. A slight ring scuff in the cyl.





Another hone to .010" over and the ring scuff turned out.




Here are the Vortec heads and Vortec L31 fuel injection.



I had acquired a forged crank & rods from a ZZ4. I had them balanced with my new pistons, flexplate & dampener.



Stabbing in the cam, the valvetrain is a GMPP LT4 Hot Cam, Proform 1.6 aluminum roller rockers, Comp Beehive springs.





Bolting in the rotating assembly





With the H345NCP-40 pistons in @ DTC they sit .004" in the hole. with a .041" head gasket that gives me an ideal .045" quench height. With the 64cc chambered Vortec heads I'll have an estimated 10.13-1 static compression ratio.



The 3000 stall locking converter for my 4L60E arrived, this should help the valvetrain build up power to move the 4380lbs truck this engine is going in.



Here are a few things some might now know... if you're using an older chevy block with Vortec accessories ( Brackets, pulleys, water pump..etc) You'll need to block the coolant bypass hole in the block because the vortec water pump doesn't have the provision for it.



A co-worker told me about this trick.

Plain ball milled polished aluminum valve covers



spray paint the top of the covers in your engine color, mine is black. However, chevy orange or red would really pop.



Next, take brakleen soaked shop rags and wipe the paint off the covers. The recessed parts of the cover remains painted.



The heads are still getting worked, I do have the notorious 906 casting heads for the 1 ton trucks with the hardened press in exhaust seats. The heads are getting bowl hogged, chambers polished, exhaust ports polished and intake ports gasket matched with the intake manifold.

I'll keep ya guys updated as soon as I make more progress!

Oh yea, almost forgot! Here is this truck this engine is being built for.







Cheers ~Mykk  

OOWWW!!! My eyes! Those wheels are hideous.

.045" quench ideal? I thought more like .030" was.  

wow, you seem to have this horse ready to gallop.. so a 357 is a 350 .40 over? im a complete amatuer  

really nice truck, im not much of a fan of the wheels, but i really like the suicide hood and how you have the exhaust running through the bed. btw is that as far as the hood opens up?  

You shouldn't be that much of an amateur...

The area of a normal geometric cylinder is Pi times the radius squared times the height of the cylinder. A simplified version of the formula is this...

displacement = Bore * Bore * Stroke * .7854 * # of cylinders