Pontiac 400 Break in AGAIN! "Homemade Engine Run Stand" let's go!

[@vhp454]

Gentlemen, we are located south of Pittsburgh. I have a stusko engine dyno and we are extending our assistance if you gents ever need.

[@LucoreAuto]

Good to know and thank you for the offer! We'll keep you in our back pocket if the need/opportunity comes up!

[@briansd2772]

Thanks for keeping the Quadrajet on there and using a METAL pump to carb stock fuel line. Top work!

[@LucoreAuto]

We're fans of QJets in these parts! Especially on a car this original and unique, gotta keep it looking the part AND behaving right! Thanks for appreciating what we do!

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

Front feed QJ, no less!

[@drcornelius8275]

I concur, the Qjet, properly set up, is a wonderful street carb... and using the stock metal fuel line is quality anti-vice grip garage professionalism.

[@terrythompson3504]

I FOUND YOU GUYS ON SRC AND LIKE THE WORK YOU DO. VERY INFORMATIVE

[@LucoreAuto]

Thanks Terry always glad to have another member of the SRC family stopping by and checking out what we do! Glad you enjoyed and maybe even learned a thing or two.

[@haroldcaldwell2225]

Great job Rich engine run stand worked great definitely served its purpose

[@LucoreAuto]

Took a little bit of engineering and a little bit of after hours work but in the long run makes things much much faster!

[@captainrick01]

love seeing the honesty in this build, thanks for sharing Rich!

[@LucoreAuto]

Thanks Captain Rick, that's the main reason we even started a KZbin channel in the first place is to share progress and challenges with our customers. It just so happens that other folks like to see it too :) Thanks for being here and watching!

[@terryeustice5399]

Thanks Rich. Appreciate the Video. Engine sounds good. Looking forward to you finishing this up.

[@LucoreAuto]

Thanks Terry, believe us we're ALL looking forward to this project getting finished up! High time this bird flies home!

[@dionrau5580]

Thanks for showing the view thru the VC holes, cool to see them spinning as they are supposed to.👍

[@LucoreAuto]

That's going to be a regular part of the process with engine run stand break ins here. Sacrificing a few sets of valve covers across the various models so we can make sure everything is good and healthy.

[@wilga80]

Good Job!

[@LucoreAuto]

Thank you, and thanks for watching!

[@stephencarter1442]

We need to get Rich one of them fancy run stands I saw at PRI. Love the Pontiac but they are a pain. Nice work. Gang!

[@LucoreAuto]

Totally agree about one of those fancy PRW run stands, maybe Santa will bring him one if he's a good boy the rest of the year!

[@drcornelius8275]

Your pain is my solace... please leave all the Pontiac engines left for me!!

[@brucefrye8799]

Good video guys

[@apachebill]

Ima give you fellas a tip. You can do with it what you wish. Rhoads Oil Groove Fast Bleed Lifters. I won’t run without them. Never had a failure, since 1982. Will wind to 6500+ without issue. Suggest Smith Bros. Rods to maintain valve train control. They don’t deflect. Never been gapped at a light either. Ever. Congrats on getting her run in. 😉

[@JoelCardenas-nx7vs]

Thank you for shareing this build, i watched other video before this one, and at the start of this video ,he say's having an issue with this cam break in, in this 79'pontiac trans am converible😂😮, couldnt really see the cars roof on the lift, so i hunted more of your videos, and hopeing to see one that was convertable...lol..pretty silver T/A, hope to watch your other informative engine tips as i build our 76 400 poncho, i finally get to see the proper oil pickup tube in previous video..keep the trans am videos coming, please

[@JoelCardenas-nx7vs]

My appologies, i finished watching next video and could kinda see the conv. Top..wow..cool...might be the first of that body kind thats conv..great info/videos

[@DonCatherman]

I built a Pontiac 400 over 25 year's ago... solid flat tappet cam.... roller rockers... forged pistons..she still purrs like a kitten today..even after too many to count ,,200 shots of nitrous.....,, great episode guy's..👍😎💯

[@LucoreAuto]

Hard to beat a well built Poncho! We have our 455 LeMans that has been pretty much flawless other than mechanical fuel pump failures, and 2 350 Ponchos sitting around here waiting for their turns. One of which should be pretty fun and interesting so stay tuned! ;)

[@DonCatherman]

@@LucoreAuto will do... That was my first complete rebuild of an engine... I'm pretty impressed with myself. 😆,,,, I was just a 20 something year old kid back then... I'm my garage... But it has been a great engine... Never a problem with it.. it sets around,, I get in it and she fire's right up like a champ every time... Idk what the problems are with all these cam lifter failure's now days.. I never considered brake in oil. rpm.. cam break in.. I knew nothing about all that back then.. I just got it running and drove it... Raced it . For going on over 26 year's now I think.. no zinc additive.. just castrol 10/40... All its life.. from break in .to today.. stock 350 crank ,,rods . In 400 block.. 406 ci.... .30 over Forged pistons.. nice cam n 6 x worked head's.. old torquer single plan.. 750 race series carburetor.. roller rockers... A good running engine... Looking forward to more poncho stuff... See ya in the next great episode. From Lucore Auto👍😎💯

[@billmiller5075]

Great job Rich, I have a 455 Pontiac that is a fresh build that the rear main leaks. It really sucks to pull the motor 3 times to fix

[@LucoreAuto]

Yessir! That's EXACTLY why we prefer to do our engine break ins either on a dyno or on an engine run stand! Did you do a rope seal in yours? Fortunately our 455 in the yellow LeMans has been pretty much flawless aside from killing mechanical fuel pumps

[@wreckanchor]

The holes in the valve covers was very clever.

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

Nice! Love the Mad Max valve covers! ;)

[@WiSeNhEiMeR-1369]

Howdy LUCORE, ... Thanks COOP ...

[@LucoreAuto]

Thanks for always being here and supporting us in our adventures Coop!

[@t-bodyperformance770]

Hit up the local play it again sports on Cemetery rd and get some hockey pucks if you ever want to insulate it from the floor. Works great for air compressors too.

[@richardlucore6813]

Nice tip!

[@LucoreAuto]

Definitely a good tip! Surprisingly this thing didn't do any hopping and skipping around but we're always interested in "out of the normal" solutions!

[@TrevorWilkins-sh8wk]

Love the rocker cover peep show mate awesome to see those pushrods

[@davidjohnson8474]

It sounds nice! Out of all the pontiac engines I raced for years the only one that ate a CAM was a 350 pontiac that my dad thought adjusting the rockers tight was the thing to do! LOL! Im betting yours was just a fluke. Have a good winter

[@LucoreAuto]

We're hoping it was just a fluke and we're on the good side now, going to check a few things after the break in to see how it truly went. Fingers crossed. We actually have 2 Pontiac 350 builds coming up, one is already torn down and waiting the other is... just waiting ;)

[@SeanJoseph-s2s]

Nice job Rich...good content...thanks.

[@LucoreAuto]

Thanks glad you liked it!

[@98Z28LS1]

Great job Rich! Awesome show! 👍👍

[@LucoreAuto]

Thank you! Glad folks are interested in what we do in the shop!

[@NoName-yr1jv]

Well done Rich 👍

[@LucoreAuto]

Thank you and thanks for watching!

[@marcusmaddenov2451]

I recommend avoiding compcams and going with Howard or Isky

[@LucoreAuto]

Unfortunately NO ONE had Pontiac cams like we were looking for in stock, everything was "ground when ordered" and 2-3 weeks out :(

[@keith6872]

Crane once recommended preheating engine oil on stove before startup. Lately there have been lots of flat tappet camshaft failures for some reason (metallurgy) for all makes ?

[@briantruett4288]

put trany in 68 camaro with out flex plate lol didn't miss it till bolting torkconverter

[@mrp2561]

Cool, I've got the same engine freshly rebuilt almost ready to be fired up!! This gets me psyched!! Question.... customer requested that engine blue? Duplicolor 1610. Peace.

[@LucoreAuto]

Hopefully yours goes right the FIRST time and you don't end up going down the nightmare tunnel of camshaft failure that we did on this one! One and done is the way to go! The engine was previously painted this color when we got to it so while we had it out just refreshed the paint in the same coloring. We always are happy to keep our Ponchos Poncho blue!

[@Trustyconsultinggroup]

What did you do different that made this cam break in successful?

[@hydroy1]

Rockers or rocker balls sounded noisy, are they new? Did you use Poly locks to set preload on lifters?, them factory nuts never say put.

[@LucoreAuto]

Factory nuts, factory rockers. Not sure what you are hearing? Especially after the failure of the first camshaft we're trying to be extra extra sensitive to sounds or issues?

[@hydroy1]

@@LucoreAuto I stopped using them factory nuts decades ago. Poly Locks are to cheap not to use and they say put every time you set preload on Hyd or clearance on Solid lifters. They made a believer out of me, and they fit right under the factory 400 valve covers.

[@36index]

Should've installed the cam first, before heads...

[@kevinpalmer2975]

I thought a flat tappet cams lifters don't pump up. You did say in earlier video this is flat tappet. I may be confusing flat tappet with solid lifter. I'm pretty sure it was the same thing back in the day. Solid/flat or hydraulic.

[@vhp454]

Hydraulic flat cam lifters do pump up. Oil pressure pumps them up. Old school technology. Dont over think it

[@richardlucore6813]

Solid lifters don't pump up. They require maintenance and lashing the valves. They are more for high reving engines. Hydraulic flat tappet lifters regulate lash with oil pressure and self adjust for valve Train Wear. But in high rpm range they can pump up and "float" the valves.

[@LucoreAuto]

Ya... what these guys said! Good question though thanks for being engaged and thanks to the community for being on top of the response!

[@jimbro5223]

I was just wondering when Rick was going to get back to the Capri? It seemed in the last video, which was months ago, that it wasn't that far from being a driver. Also what progress has been made on the 2.8L V6 rebuild?

[@LucoreAuto]

Well you see, what had happened was... The green Capri you are correct is very close to being a driver. Needs a few things, buttoned up, and needs to get some sort of trunk floor fixing done then it's ready to putter around. The 2.8 V6 is... sitting on an engine stand in a bag with a pile of parts just waiting on it's turn. Customer stuff comes first so with us being as busy as we have been that project is off the burners at the moment... probably not even on a hot plate unfortunately :(

[@jimbro5223]

I get it. Making money and keeping the doors open comes first. @@LucoreAuto

[@coleenteabo7033]

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