[DeTomaso] Wear particles.

[dave londry]

Thanks Chuck. I do like having re-enforced delusions.

The 377 is great.
I got a pretty aggressive hydraulic roller cam
  (under close supervision from Dan Jones and arm-wrestling with the 
Cleveland guy at Bullet cams).
  It has an 800 Thunder on an AirGap manifold.
The heads are seriously-ported 4Vs and the CR is 10.8.
The exhaust is now 2 1/2" all the way to the mufflers and 2 x 2 1/2" 
through the mufflers.
  - bitch of a time building that up through between the halfshaft and 
the lower A-arm.
Dan's simulation corrected to 10.8 would be about 505 at 6000
(so real-world will be discounted from that)
It idles in a very nice, lumpy way, but surprisingly it pulls smoothly 
from 1500.
dave

On 08/02/2013 5:55 AM, cengles at cox.net wrote:
> Dear Dave,
>
>
>               Considering your story of the engine and rebuild and 
> considering the volume of schmutz that you describe on your 
> inspections, my limited *amateur* opinion is that it is OK.
>
>
>               How does the 377 Cleveland run?
>
>
>                             Warmest regards, Chuck Engles
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:13 PM, dave londry wrote:
>
>> Hey you engine analysts.
>> I'm installing A Kevco Racing pan right now,
>>   so I got to take an inventory of the contents of the pan and the 
>> filter.
>>
>> I rebuilt this engine (377 Cleveland) last year and put 100 miles on 
>> the break-in oil.
>> Everything was new or newly ground but the rings.
>>   I kept them because there was very little mileage on the previous 
>> build,
>>   (which I inherited along with some very special quality problems).
>> When I changed the break-in oil,
>>   I got about the volume of 2 BBs in magnetic muck on the drain-plug 
>> magnet.
>> It wasn't very magnetic, so I'll BS-guess and say it was less than 
>> 10% steel/iron.
>> I didn't recover anything when I tore the filter apart (K&N)
>>   so it was probably just too well distributed for me to find.
>>
>> Then I put 1200 miles on a fill of Royal Purple synthetic.
>> I got exactly the same result again with with the drain-plug and the 
>> filter.
>>  From the pan I got about a half-dozen chips
>>   about 0.020 x 0.020 x way thinner than I can get ahold of. Maybe 
>> 0.002 or 0.003.
>>
>> This all seemed pretty OK to me.
>> I think the flakes were one-time sharp edges left from the machine-work.
>>
>> So - am I delusional guys?
>> Comments please, I can take it.
>> dave
>>
>>
>>
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