YIPPIE!!!!!!

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                            The AMC 360 came in today.  It is up and on an engine stand ready to be taken apart.  It looks in pretty good condition.  Not too much grease and oil.  Needs a new oil pan, valve covers, carbuerator (2bbl).  I ay put some new heads on, but I am going to see what the valves look like.  If they are really greasey then need to have the engine rebuilt, if not I can go ahead and clean it, repaint it.  Then get started pulling my engine.  I need a camera so I can take pics especially for this.

I have no idea what the hell you are talking about....but way to go walken!

Yeah I am secret gear head. I know more than most people would ever think. I just need to find a book on specs to what the bolts on the motor and such need to be torqued to. I am so happy it is crazy. I have never been so anxious, but the funny thing is I do not know where to really begin (ineperience ya know).

Hahahaha... I was slightly confused when you started talking about engines, because the AMC is also a (standardized?) math test thing that I suck at.

LOL AMC is just the company that put their stamp of production on the block. I mean the AMC block is so unusual it uses a lot of metric sizes and not very many english units. THe intake manifold is strange too. The Chevy 350 has a distinctive intake manifold. This has very very hard to reach bolts that hold it in.

funny I was just about to do that. LOLThanks Helms.And back to gearhead yeah I am a jack of trades I guess. I have the patience to do a lot of work.

Don't fuck with it!the heads I mean. I got a 400 Pontiac for a fire bird I used to have, heads looked good so we rebuilt the top end, said fuck the bottom ( it all looked good) and left the heads. AT LEAST take the heads down and have them polished. not doing it cost me a second pull of the engine not to mention when the engine took a shit on me it wiped the tranny that we had built for it (A 350 T) that we installed shift kit in. It was damned fast but not as fast as it was after the second rebuild when we did it right. The second rebuild lasted alot longer too we uhhhh we destroy cars. running a 78 Monte right now with a big ass engine from a Buick in it ( a 460? I dunno exactly I'm not the gear head, my buddy is I just do what I'm told when he tells me what the hell that is. I have a heated garage, he has the tools and keeps buying new cars to build and race, We destroy one we pull another one out and start racing it until we blow it up and hope we have another one ready by then.The fire bird though I loved, it was fast but we built it for me to drive and race a bit here and there, broke my damned heart when I had to tow it back and start over.replace the heads, don't even bother fucking with the engine (installing and running it) with out like I said mine looked good to look at but we would of found problems had we lulled , Ported, and polished them instead of slapping them in, should of at least put new ones in before we threw the engine back into a car.

This is why we are doing a total deconstruction. We are going to check it out as we take it apart. I will probably put new heads as we as a new intake manifold. I am going to get it running nicely. Want to get about 350 Hp from it or above 300hp. If I can I want to put a turbo on it. I mean just picture a Jeep Cherokee with a 6 inch lift and 32 inch tires, and it lighting the tires up from a stop and flying by you.

Very awesome! =-D pretends to know what Walkenw as talken about lolRegardless sounds like you're happy so it's awesome hehe!

"Old Folks is a gearhead I think..."Not as much as one would think, considering all the cars I have and am in the process of modifying and rebuilding. I usually just jump in blind not knowing how deep the water is. So far I haven't split my head and drowned. I just call a bud of mine and he generally rescues me.Recently, I was do'in shit that I shouldn't have been and blew the turbo on my Buick GN. A blessing in disguise because I replaced it with twins.... I've always wanted twins.Walken, I'm sure I don't need to say it, but have fun with your new toy. How old is the Cherokee your dropping it in? (Around here in NDN country that statement takes on a whole different meaning....LoL) It's gonna be a sweet ride. V8 power is the only way to go, as I brag about my GN with the slant block V6.

I have a 1989 Cherokee. THis is an 1978 AMC 360. The nice thing is pre-1979 the bell housing bolted up to the AW4 transmission which I have in my Cherokee. SO what I need now is a new transfer case and a new rear axle.

There isn't a hell of a lot that flys by me 93' Taurus SHO with a 3.2 DOHC 24v Yamaha.Add Ram Air and that I stole a chip form a generation 1 SHO for mine.before the gen 2's came out the gen 1s tore the mustang apart. Ford couldn't have a sedan beating their sports car so they changed the chip. stock my car was 220 HP and fast as shit, add the bigger MAP and the that my intake has been bored out and added all that extra air with a kit and bigger throat, a cyclonic spinner inside my intake hose, the chip and the natural ability that car before I started fucking with it and I fly. I can keep up with the Vettes, I can t beat them, but I can stay right on their ass and I have yet to lose to a civic or accord or anything else Iv seen anyone drop those vtecs into and add a fart tube to the exhaust.I can hit 50 MPH in about 3 seconds, slows down till about 60 (total of almost 5 seconds) then it speeds up again.4 speed auto tranny with a shift kit. 27mm sway bars and that damned thing refuses to run with less then 90 octane. with prices now I been keeping off the gas pedal but the power is still there. to boot driving normally I get about 27 a gallon average between city and hi way. I have the only front wheel drive that Iv ever seen smoke the tires thru 3 gears.nice forest green 4 door that cops and every one else ignores