BBC 760 CID

The oil pan holds 8 quarts and is no lower than a stock pan.

4 angle seat cutter.

The follow is a stack of photos show the construction of a 760CId BBC

Toledo Hall orbital seat grinder.

Considering want the intake manifold will need to look like.

The longer oil pump drive I made from a pump priming tool.

Cutting for the second key for the blower drive.

I took it to the dyno shop but the welds cracked in the manifold, it was to thin too waek. It backfired and broke the manifold.

Comparing a STD 454 block to the beast

This port runner still aren't big enough I'm going to have to stretch them.

I'll make a tool for the job.

The only way to clear the oil pump was to raise it 1/2 inch.

I use a pump drive assemble to align it all.

The first of eight sleeves to press in.

After considering how I could improve cooling I decide to add more water under the exhaust ports.

I mounted the block in the mill and created a passage for coolant in the torqueplate.

Coming up with these studs took some searching

Because the intake manifold sits above the motor I needed to make a valley pan that also houses the distributor. I first tried to make it from aluminum, but problems welding it had me start over and make it from steel.

Make a gasket for the timing cover.

Even though I'm using Dart Big Chief heads with siamese ports there still isn't enough room for the pushrods.

Stock type BBC heads would have the pusdrods going through the intake port.

The torque plates are held down with countersunk flat head screws and sealant.

Take one discontinued World Merlin Super Block and add a honing torqueplate to the 11.625" block height to bring it up to 13 inches.

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I took two 3/8 diameter .080 wall pushrods and cut them to provide the three different length pushrods I need.

Then I reamed a 1/2" diameter .060" wall chrome-moly tube a pushed the two pushrod halves into it and tig weld a small tach to prevent any movement.

This is how I algin the supercharger to the crankshaft.

I don't have photos of how we welded it together, but this show milling after drilling.

Built to use a Dominator throttle body, but that will change.

Time to make the rocker stands. I located 3 used ones I could copy from. I obtain a length of chrome-moly and started cutting.

Things don't alway go ideally.

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With 8.850 long rods stand up so straight in the bore additional clearancing was required to avoid contacting the rod beam.

Even cutting the rod bolt was necessary

Now I have coolant under the exhaust ports.

This photo below is jumping ahead, but I want to show that I closed off the large water ports feeding up from between the cylinders to the head, and opened up to 3/8" diameter the holes feeding coolant to the spark plugs. The thinking is this area see higher tempertures so should benefit from more coolant flow.