Fired Up, 13 Years Later!

After a year long build, I finally fired up my 351w. The truck has been going through a frame off restoration that started in 1998. College, work, and family took up a lot of my time but in the past two years I've been able to slowly inch forward to actually being able to driving my truck. I only ran it for a minute but tonight I'm going to break the engine in. Over the last year I've been watching youtube videos of people first firing up their engine and seeing the exhilaration on their face. Finally, I understand their excitement! ;D I have some pics in my gallery.

Engine specs: 351w, bored .30, 10.5 to 1 compression, forged pistons, AFR 185 58cc heads, Air gap intake, 750 Edelbrock Carb, xe268h comp cam, flowmaster delta 40 exhaust, C4 trans with 2200 performance stall.

Great, glad to hear that another one is coming alive.

Awesome, congrats to ya!

Post a vid on the YouTube so we can all hear this Bad Boy!

W650Mike said:

Post a vid on the YouTube so we can all hear this Bad Boy!

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I really wasn't expecting it to fire up so quickly last night so I didn't bring out the video camera but I'll make sure I do tonight!

Sweet! I hope to be posting a similar thread this spring... Are you going to video the break-in?

Nightstick said:

Sweet! I hope to be posting a similar thread this spring... Are you going to video the break-in?

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Yes, once I get everything running smooth during the break-in I'll try to take some vid.