Found that out the hard way. Junked them

I did switch to an avs2 for a bit. It worked good. I ended up putting the Holley back on and tuned it. Still wasn’t super happy with it. This week it’s getting the full Sniper 2 setup w/hyperspark dist and ignition

It didn’t fit well with the temp radiator I had it in. 🤷🏻

It should be reasonable. It should turn over will a little bit of effort. Generally after installing each piston, I’ll turn it over to make sure there is no binding, and if there is, I know which one caused the problem.

@@agatemaster5706 it'seems to be tight in the bores,the have been bored out and honed

@@iantooth3064 what’s your ring gap?

@@agatemaster5706 just checked the gap,it's 15 thou.

@@iantooth3064 seems tight for standard ring gap. My last build I filed them to .027

It wasn’t left for scrap. I bought a bunch of stuff from a widow. It was under a shelf for years waiting to be built, but her husband had health issues. There it sat for the next 10 years.

I just started working on one of the cranks. So far not bad. Both are standard so if need be they may go to the machine shop.

Totally agree. I hate working on new stuff. Love working on old stuff

Yep, and the new trick flow heads work on LA and magnum engines, and you can stroke either. You can make over 400 CI with the 340 block and make plenty of power. Been running my 73 340 for 34 years, been in two ram chargers and two pickups and now in my CJ5, I think it has proven its reliability and I have turned it 8200 rpms with the stock valve springs on the 71 heads. Thankfully I have two spare 340's just in case.

What fun would that be? 😂

I completely agree with you. We got sucked in by the Black Friday deals. Biggest lesson learned, by the best quality parts you can afford for your build or like buying crap from Harbor Freight, you will be buying things twice and might as well spent the money on good stuff. Let alone the fact earlier this year Speedmaster was caught flat out stealing people’s products and copying them.

I bought a set of the Eddy victor BBM heads. I told procomp straight up that I wanted to see what kind of quality they sold and I told them I would either praise them online or tell people how bad their shit really is. The bare castings was pretty nice, of course they should have been, they was a copy of the Edelbrock Mopar heads. The adjustable ockers was absolute garbage. I sent them back and kept the heads. I've seen procomp/speedmaster heads taken apart. No spring seats for the springs on aluminum heads, installed heights was all over the place, valves that just looked rough, springs that looked like cheap junk, retainers and keepers that just looked like trash. Their intakes always have core shift, I've seen their rods that had the cap screw hole threads stripped out straight out of the box. I have bought two sets of valve covers from them and both sets had to have at least two holes enlarged to fire the heads. I didn't know I was getting procomp/speedmaster valve covers from eBay or I wouldn't have bought them. People buy this stuff and brag about it. They are ticking time bombs.

Old Mopars and gear reduction starters, unique sound.