Started work on my Acadian 327 tonight

Beaumont4008 · Uber Guru

RE: Started work on my Acadian 327 tonight

57poncho · Uber Guru

Do you have a third car? Maybe you could adopt me.

Beaumont4008 · Uber Guru

I wonder what they named the Canso model after. Its kind of a different name. Maybe after the Canadian model of the Catalina flying boat. It was called the Canso or maybe after the Strait of Canso between Nova Scotia and Cape Briton Island. Just having one of my "I wonder moments"

-- Edited by Beaumont4008 on Sunday 27th of December 2009 01:28:21 AM

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

57poncho wrote:

Do you have a third car? Maybe you could adopt me.

Well, there's always that beautiful 96 Astro Van I picked up for $250 in the summer time.......

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Beaumont4008 wrote:

I wonder what they named the Canso model after. Its kind of a different name. Maybe after the Canadian model of the Catalina flying boat. It was called the Canso or maybe after the Strait of Canso between Nova Scotia and Cape Briton Island. Just having one of my "I wonder moments"

-- Edited by Beaumont4008 on Sunday 27th of December 2009 01:28:21 AM

I believe the east coast part is right since that is where the Acadian name comes from as well.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Today I installed the oil pump and pickup, timing cover, oil pan, lifters, pushrods, rocker arms and fuel pump mount plate.

I had my various little trials along the way but hopefully it's all happy now.

I had to stop because next step is to prime it to check oil pressure and my primer I loaned out a few years back never came back. Wish I knew who has it!

Maybe Monday, primer and mechanical oil gauge to check pressure.

lueger68 · Poncho Master!

looking great Carl the 327 is coming along nicely. Me and my good friend are in the middle of restoring his 67 Camaro and he just finished building up his 327 and man did it ever rev but he always got made that in never reved as high as my stroker , so he has told me he has done a few tricks to her to get the revs up lol. keep the pics coming looking great.
Kevin

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Carl Stevenson wrote:

I had to stop because next step is to prime it to check oil pressure and my primer I loaned out a few years back never came back. Wish I knew who has it!

Maybe Monday, primer and mechanical oil gauge to check pressure.

A funny followup to this story:

A fellow car-nut friend (Norm) is our service advisor. Today I asked one of the techs if I could borrow his primer tonight. As he is telling me I could borrow it, Norm pipes up and says "or you could use your's." I looked at him and he says "I noticed it in my tool box at home in my shop on the weekend!" He borrowed it off me a year or two ago!

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

Beaumont4008 wrote:

I wonder what they named the Canso model after. Its kind of a different name. Maybe after the Canadian model of the Catalina flying boat. It was called the Canso or maybe after the Strait of Canso between Nova Scotia and Cape Briton Island. Just having one of my "I wonder moments"

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A narrow channel between Cape Breton Island and the northeast mainland of Nova Scotia, Canada.

cheetah 427 · Poncho Master!

my buddy said can so beat a ford ,

Elroy · Poncho Master!

Great pics, Carl. Thanks! That's one sweet car, too !

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Thank you Elroy. This car has been with me for over 23 years now. It's slowly getting to the point that pretty soon I will be saying I've had it half my life!

No pics for tonight. I got the primer, hooked up the drill and primed for quite a while. I forgot to bring a gauge to check pressure but it makes pretty good drag on a 1/2" drill so I expect it will push 30 lbs anyway. Maybe tomorrow I will remember the gauge.

Once it was primed I adjusted all the lifters, so good to go on that.

Tried fitting my 69 Z28 intake and it hits the breather can mounted in the intake valley, so had to modify the breather a bit to make the intake clear. That's all good now. The intake had a couple of steel fittings seized in so I spent the remainder of the evening working away at them and now it's ready to clean up and install on the engine. Maybe tomorrow night. I think I have CP company coming so there could be a whole bunch of car talk and not a lot of work done!!

Elroy · Poncho Master!

Carl those pics are priceless for anyone learning or just for interest sake! I really dig those era Acadians/Novas real sweet! My buddy had a 63Nova SS and it looked great with 14" Cragars after he switched it to 5bolt as well. He radiused the front wheelopenings too a bit, and that got it sitting right.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Updates include, drilling out a water fitting on my Z28 intake. Steel fitting seized in the aluminum as usual. The drill bit grabbed and broke out a piece of the casting. Lucky I have a neighbour a few miles away who has a nice welding shop on his farm. Took it to him yesterday at 10 AM and 30 bucks later and 5 PM I'm all fixed up!

Maybe later tonight I will get a chance to do a bit more. The primer went well, about 34 lbs oil pressure on a low speed 1/2 drill so that should be fine.

Rocker arms are all tightened down at 3/4 of a turn (for my 3/4 race cam

) so I'm getting closer to painting time. It's supposed to be -1 after the weekend so that will be a good time to roll it outside and paint it up.

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

Sounds good! What color of Chevrolet orange are you going to use?

tc · Guru

PlastiCoat Chevrolet Orange #200 is the only color to use.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Yup, I have almost always used Plasitkote and the odd time Duplicolour.

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

Do you wear gloves and respirator? How much pressure do you use? Do you spray up and down or or West to East?

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

427carl wrote:

Do you wear gloves and respirator? How much pressure do you use? Do you spray up and down or or West to East?

Yes Some Yes !!!

Beaumont4008 · Uber Guru

Sound like its coming along very nicely, what carb are you going to be using on the manifold ? Holley ?

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Yes, I bought a brand new 1850 vacuum secondary. I've owned one other Holley in my life, on my 66 L79 clone. I hated it! What a gas hog......

Tonight I just spent time gathering parts and hardware I will be needing. Since this a 6 cylinder car that had a 427 Turbo 350 previously, I am doing this from scratch. I rounded up exhaust manifold bolts and those fancy little strap type retainers for the bolts, exhaust manifold heat shields, water pump bolts, water pump fitting, spark plug wire retainers and the little towers at the back of the block for them, pulleys, alternator brackets....... I did this late evening because our son's basketball was early and I try to get to every game I can.

I found 3 of those nifty "aluminum" Canadian-only ignition coils so I picked one with the closest date code to my car. It may well be the original coil from it anyway.

I was going to install the engine as a short block and heads only, then bolt on all the pieces. I think now that I am going to do it fully dressed on the engine stand, then take it back down to the short block with heads and drop it in that way. Much easier to mock up on the stand and find out things are wrong than when it's in the car.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Basketball is still interfering with this project!

I dug out more pieces tonight. Does anyone have a picture of the little 2 port plug wire retainers that bolt to the side of the block?

I also have the back of my crank nicely wedged against the engine stand so now I can bang the balancer on feeling quite confident that I am not hammering against the thrust bearing.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Not a lot of progress, basketball for our son on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and all day Saturday.... Oh and yes, Wednesday there was no basket ball but it was my wife's birthday!!!

However, working around all that I got the balancer on, found all the clips, retainers etc. for the spark plug wires and also found the 2 different size hoses for the PCV along with the clip for that hose. All these clips, bolts, retainers, hoses, fittings etc have been saved for years and years and it's really paying off for me in time and money saved.

Removed the flapper from the heat riser valve on the exhaust since I will be running an electric choke.

Buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner, buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner,
Buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner, buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner,
Buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner, buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner,
Buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner, buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner,
and then when I got tired of that I.......

Buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner, buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner,

Stephenzone · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

now if you take the parts to the baseball game you could
Buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner, buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner,
Buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner, buffed and cleaned parts with brakecleaner,
and watch the game. then we could see some progress.

eeluddy · Uber Guru

Carl Stevenson wrote:

Beaumont4008 wrote:

I wonder what they named the Canso model after. Its kind of a different name. Maybe after the Canadian model of the Catalina flying boat. It was called the Canso or maybe after the Strait of Canso between Nova Scotia and Cape Briton Island. Just having one of my "I wonder moments"

-- Edited by Beaumont4008 on Sunday 27th of December 2009 01:28:21 AM

I believe the east coast part is right since that is where the Acadian name comes from as well.

There is a town named Canso along the coast of Nova Scotia that is very close to Cape Breton by the Strait of Canso. This is in the area that was once called Acadia by the French settelers. When the Acadian's were expelled by the British a large amount of them went to French Louisiana, around New Orleans. Hence the term "Cajun" Which is what they were called by the locals.
We had a cottage just outside Canso when I was a kid. Very beautiful place.