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1978 Plymouth Arrow, Uncategorized

Garage time

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Here are the chunks of the piston that came out of the oil pan. One is very close to round. Odd.

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Poor man’s parts washer.

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I’m going to redo most of this wiring harness and eliminate a fair amount as well. I get to remove the voltage regulator, which is about 7 feet of excess wiring. I also plan to clean and paint the engine bay. The engine harness will need redone with the new intake setup. I was planning on itbs, but now I’m thinking, keep it turbo friendly. And work more on injector placement/angle.

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The headlights and grill will get some attention this time around as well.

1978 Plymouth Arrow

The arrows engine is stripped

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What a mess. It looks like the aluminum from the piston added/removed (depending on how you look at it) about .1mm to the bore. So it’s actually smaller than it should be. The crank looks great though. That’s a relief.
I’m taking the block to shaker racing to have it cleaned and bored. I’ll probably have the rising assembly balanced as well. I will have the cast pistons ceramic topped by FFWD connection.

1978 Plymouth Arrow

The arrow

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I forgot how complicated pulling this motor is. I have to take my headlights out. Well, maybe not them, but almost.

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So the piston has a hole melted in it from excessive carbon build up. A never ending flame front burned a hole in it.
The head gasket was about to go anyways on number four. The spark plug was melted, and that jet valve shroud got melted as well.
I have an m28 njv head waiting.