Well, I just got off the phone with the guy I bought my Fury from... It is definately NOT the original motor.. :-( Apparently in 1971 or so, his dad was driving the car and threw a rod - sound familiar? So they got this motor - strangely enough out of another '58 Fury that had thrown a rod! So this motor had somehow made its way from a '57 to a '58 and then into another '58 all by 1971. He wasn't even sure it was a Fury motor, but only suspected it was. When he got it, it had a 2-barrel style car distributor in it, and a funky manifold of some kind. When it was installed in my '58, he swapped over to the correct distributor, and swapped the intake manifold and carbs over from the original motor to this one. Says he stil has the heads to the original motor to mine, but the block and other parts are long-gone. He thinks this motor only has about 86,000 miles on it, and he put less than 1,000 miles on the car from 1971-2001 when i bought it. He said even in 1971 when he swapped the intakes, it was so sludged up it was unreal. He thinks a lot of my smoke problems is because under the valves covers is all sludged up probably, and probably the return galleys are plugged up good. Doesn't change the fact that I got very little compression though... So, that's the story... Still going to send off to Chrysler Historical though.. Brian ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Home Selling? Try Us! http://us.click.yahoo.com/QrPZMC/iTmEAA/MVfIAA/BBiolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: goldenfin-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ <<attachment: winmail.dat>> |
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