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Tech Talk => Engine Mechanical / Electrical => Topic started by: angermgmt on April 04, 2015, 06:26:22 PM
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Cheby guys won't appreciate this post cuz their too busy repairing their stuff instead of building extra motors... So the wife and I follow up on a craigslist add for a BBF. The sellers friend is in the scrap business but doesn't want to mess with cleaning up the oil and such on motors and sells this motor to the guy we met today who isn't Internet or Ford Savy so he lets his daughter list it on Craig's. He hopes the engine is a Boss 429 and in his disappointment decides to sell it because it only has a 2 bolt main and described it as just a regular 429. Nope this guy sold me a virgin 429 CJ D0VE-A motor complete with D0VE-C heads also Virgin. Now he's a car guy so I didn't steal it but I just retired and this is going to be a great project. Almost feel bad for tearing it apart. Some Grand Torino restoration would kill for this thing.
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I'm a chevy guy through and through but also just plain gear head, that is an awesome score man👍👍👍
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Nice find!
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Cheby guys won't appreciate this post cuz their too busy repairing their stuff instead of building extra motors... So the wife and I follow up on a craigslist add for a BBF. The sellers friend is in the scrap business but doesn't want to mess with cleaning up the oil and such on motors and sells this motor to the guy we met today who isn't Internet or Ford Savy so he lets his daughter list it on Craig's. He hopes the engine is a Boss 429 and in his disappointment decides to sell it because it only has a 2 bolt main and described it as just a regular 429. Nope this guy sold me a virgin 429 CJ D0VE-A motor complete with D0VE-C heads also Virgin. Now he's a car guy so I didn't steal it but I just retired and this is going to be a great project. Almost feel bad for tearing it apart. Some Grand Torino restoration would kill for this thing.
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. Us Chevy guys would like that find as well. We all need anchors
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GM has the market cornered on boat anchors. Nobody windows more blocks than GM.
Y'all know that is where "like a rock" came from right?
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We will see. We could keep a SoCal count this year I head the fords are already behind
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Y'all know that is where "like a rock" came from right?
That's some pretty good smack lol.
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Bad ass ford. Ok I'm not totally againstthem
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Ok your just a shit talker. My 35 year old bbc bottom end looks like brand new. I love ford's for their innovation in motors these days, I have a brand new ecoboost explorer and it is badass but building a Ford big block for a jet boat just costs more. To each their own
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Ok your just a shit talker. My 35 year old bbc bottom end looks like brand new. I love ford's for their innovation in motors these days, I have a brand new ecoboost explorer and it is badass but building a Ford big block for a jet boat just costs more. To each their own
i agree with ^^^^ everyone has there own opinion, I am a die hard gm guy but also appreciate anything that has to do with hotrod's or motors weather there ford or chevy as long as there done right. Congrats on the find and good luck with the build.
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...the wife and I follow up on a craigslist add for a BBF...this guy sold me a virgin 429 CJ D0VE-A motor complete with D0VE-C heads also Virgin...Some Grand Torino restoration would kill for this thing.
How do you know it's a Cobra Jet engine? So far it looks just like a 1970 base model 429. Those are some nice parts for an engine build, but not none them indicate CJ.
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Thick webbing around the crank.
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I stand corrected always thought the 2bolt D0VE blocks were all CJ across the board but the CJ and SCJ heads are unique to both of these D0OE-R I believe . In any case I went after what I was actually looking for with the D0VE block and heads for my application and building yet another spare motor. Besides I do have a 4 bolt SCJ block waiting on the wings as well. 😀
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i agree with ^^^^ everyone has there own opinion, I am a die hard gm guy but also appreciate anything that has to do with hotrod's or motors weather there ford or chevy as long as there done right. Congrats on the find and good luck with the build.
x2 i come from a car background and every one made something that what was bitchin.. im a gm guy as well,cuz anything fast iv ever owned has been gm, but im really a die hard mopar guy! Wich is probably almost as bad as bein a ford fan!!! LmfaoO0
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I love motors of all kinds, been going more Ford lately. But truly I'll take my guilty pleasure of rotary motors and go off in the corner hahahahaha!
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