HOW TO SWAP ALUMINUM HEADS ONTO YOUR MUSCLE CAR - BIG BLOCK MOPAR 440 POWERED ROAD RUNNER

[@draggonhedd]

I love how every time you ask moby a question he just stares at you like 'I dont speak english, dummy'. What a good pup.

[@SallysSpeedShop]

I try to keep myself sane by having someone to talk to but I think it just makes me look crazier 😂

[@051570orion]

​@@SallysSpeedShop I talk to both my dogs , the male is full blooded Husky , he talks back . Lol , his name is Diesel

[@jimcabezola3051]

I rarely watch a build where the engine and car are TOTALLY sanitary! I’m amazed how easy to follow along these clean engine videos are. My brain is easily confused when folks are working in a swamp at midnight. You folks are amazing, because I’ve seen you do just that very thing, lol. I suspect you enjoyed doing this job. It’s just a feeling I’ve got, lol! Supervisor Moby didn’t even have to jump in and say, “No! THIS goes here, and THAT goes there!” Aloha and take care, y’all.

[@jamesbaylis9438]

Out of all of the 70's Classic Car's from the USA, this is has to be one my favorites shapes of them all. She's a bit big, but the lines just flow on for days!! 👍👍

[@mikegowen4967]

Edelbrock"s R&D should"ve caught that on the heads. Great car and swap.

[@johnsarian_cu]

Sweet machine. I respect how the owner treats it keeping it out of the rain for starters. I'm so old (ha) I remember when carbureted v8s needed to be decarbonized every so often by a few rips down the road. Sometimes with good ol' STP in the tank. Always seemed to gunk up the more time it spend idling or slow driving vs ripping. Maybe they weren't exactly pig rich though.....

[@sdmoparmaninsd6713]

You're still a newbie so a head swap pointer, should always lay the head on the block with no gasket and verify the dowels won't hold the heads up a little and preventing a proper head gasket seal, it does happen occasionally (usually on milled heads) but sometimes people put new dowels in that are a bit too long.

[@timdavis_365]

Great tip. Often we don't test fit parts, at a time when it would be very easy to check fitment.

[@ceegee3664]

Great to see Sally's Speed Shop making Speed

[@sdmoparmaninsd6713]

Also running stock rockers on edelbrocks is not a great idea without some sort of a hard washer/spacer between the rockers and each rocker stand, the steel rockers will start wearing away the aluminum

[@olikat8]

Stage 8 locking fasteners for the headers are a great investment

[@jonmurraymurray5512]

That's a beautiful car.

[@shanewright6958]

Another great video. A what a great looking car 👍👍

[@stevenwatts8915]

Hi there! I know this video is a year old, but I just ran across it. One thing you did not do is verify the orientation of the rocker shafts. Stock rocker shafts have oil holes for the rocker arms drilled 15 degrees off center from the hold down bolts that should point down and outboard. Each shaft can be installed four different ways, only one way is correct. Failing to put them in the proper orientation will starve the rocker arms of oil. Easiest way to verify whether they are installed correctly is each shaft has a notch in one end. That notch should face down and forward on the driver side and down and to the rear on the passenger side.

[@billsalzman]

Nice job. Way to go!!

[@billsalzman]

Good looking car!!

[@trx4ever]

Remember to pay shop inspector Moby a large pack of dog biscuits to keep an eye on you 😜 😜

[@SallysSpeedShop]

Good tip! He deserves all the treatos!

[@RodneyHawleyJr]

Stock open chamber heads are approximately 88 cc I've run those 84 cc edelbrock heads and wish I went for the 75 cc ones if there were steel gaskets under the cast iron heads there 20 thousands and if you use the felpro 1009 gaskets they're. 39 and with only saving 4 cc by using the 84 cc heads you get about the same compression ratio . Closed chamber heads about 78 cc

[@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm]

you should fit roller rockers with alloy heads = not much more cash but a big improvement !

[@AsswipeGarage]

Not much more cash? Try $700 for Harlan Sharp, and I don't trust the cheaper Proforms.

[@leegoldeneagle9003]

Nice 👍😊

[@sdmoparmaninsd6713]

Timing advance should always be checked with the vacuum advance disconnected, also set it via total advance NOT idle. If the idle is off then adjustments need to be made to the springs/weights/slots (most of the time not worth the effort). Total is far more important than idle.

[@Torquemonster440]

Nailed it !! 👍

[@DarrylDutton-y3b]

Hi, just relaying my experience on 2 sets of edlebrock heads that I have (BBC and SBC). A friend who's a head porter/polisher/flow guy said let me check them out for you. I'm glad he offered to do this. First the valve spring pressures were sky high, his opinion was that when using a roller cam which I was on one set would have destroyed the roller lifters. The next thing was that the valve job was " atrocious" . Finally on the BBC heads the rocker are studs go straight into the intake runners, they were not sealed. I'm still very happy with both sets. My 350 SBC with a roller cam, flat top pistons, stock intake and factory Quadrajet ( had to be rejetted) made 425 HP. It runs really good!

[@JeffLeblanc-xb7qe]

I had a 70 440 4 speed runner was my 3rd car man I had a ton of fun in that car it was a fast car I did more burnouts and crazy runs I beat a lot of cars I live in Oshawa on Canada and it was a gm town back in late 70s and everybody that pulled up beside you wanted to race light to light smoked a lot of Chevys with that car I found it not big like you say it has a small front end and a big back end so very easy to drive man I had lots of fun terrorizing the local police back in them days the only problem it was a vitamin c orange so they new the car quite well lol never got a ticket in that car cause the cops couldn’t get close to me it would go lol good ole days you can’t do that know more lol

[@marvin5620]

Good thing those pushrods weren't too long. You didn't seem worried about that at all being you just put the old ones in there and tightened the rocker arm shaft down without even thinking about it.

[@MakeHotRoddingGreatAgain]

Are those Sally’s hoodies going to be for sale??

[@timdavis_365]

We need to have some printed.

[@karlsracing8422]

Leak check valves with alcohol

[@DarrylDutton-y3b]

Beautiful car!

[@jessphuqette1716]

Roller rockers and a proper set of pushrods wouldn't hurt. I mean if the customer has the beans for a 'complete' restomod he could spring for the good guy parts

[@markmoats2456]

Is that your car it's a badass build and I can see you have a thing for yellow cars

[@timdavis_365]

It's a customers. The '57 is ours.

[@nickolson7234]

did u use stock rocker arms?

[@frankm8533]

Thats a great looking car yes that seat looks pretty low lol

[@gordandcolleenkerr7760]

Sorry dude you never. Install these type of heads right out of the box without checking them out first to verify that their is not any issues

[@davidrubin9258]

JASON, I HAVE SUBSCRIBED TO YOUR CHANNEL, I LIKE YOUR STUFF!!! WOULD YOU PLEASE FIND & BUY A SOLID 1973 DODGE DART SPORT & SWAP IN A 5.7L HEMI FROM A 2005 OR SO CHALLENGER!!!

[@jimdrechsel3611]

These heads have been out for a long time and to still have to grind clearance for the distributor is stupidity. Edelbrock should know that a large number of people use MSD and should compensate. I have heard that checking the heads on any aftermarket head is critical as stated by others. The copper spray on the head gasket is a good tip. If you leave links for parts in the description it helps and you can make extra money for yourself. Good video with some extra research.

[@DependableAutoTruck]

Does anyone index plugs anymore

[@timdavis_365]

I have no idea. Something to consider.

[@karlsracing8422]

No,does nothing only for pop-up pistons for interference

[@Torquemonster440]

Not much to be gained.

[@ClassicStreetIron]

It doesn't look like the trunk lid is lined up properly

[@timdavis_365]

On the Javelin? It doesn't line up great. As a race car, it'll be fine but, we could work on that.

[@ClassicStreetIron]

@@timdavis_365 The Road Runner

[@ashrafstansberry8348]

Timing should be checked from the passenger side!

[@ianlegrand3450]

🤜💥🖐️🤘

[@manuelzamora9288]

they dont go into the water jacket on these heads!!!

[@SallysSpeedShop]

Yup, learned that right after I said that, and I believe I corrected myself in the video if I remember right.

[@jasonzitt6408]

Mob looks sad, i think he's trying to figure out who youre talking to

[@SallysSpeedShop]

He doesn't exactly understand the concept of a camera haha

[@orvalaltwasser505]

Having to grind off material on brand new heads to fit the distributor just turned me off of Edelbrock heads. Shitty manufacturing !

[@SallysSpeedShop]

They would probably work with a stock distributor, but this aftermarket MSD distributor was a little larger.