Inliners International Forums General Discussion Hi Performance NOOB! with a brand new goodwrench 292

...sitting on my engine stand!





A few questions: What's the compression ratio on this engine? Stock cam specs on a 292 crate? HP/TQ powerband?

This will be going into my '65 chevy van. The idea is a solid daily driver, but it would be fun to hop it up (just a little).

Do you have the G.M. part # (not the casting #), if so I may be able to find something.

That engine is probably rated at 170 hp and 270 tq or about that with stock intake and exh.
Add a 4 bbl, headers and it will go up to about 185hp 285-290 tq.
Good score!

Nice! I'm jealous for sure. Wanna trade for two 250s?

Bring them over. I will do some trading, got plenty of 292's.

I do not have a part number. The engine is new, but the guy I bought it from lost the paperwork. His father originally bought it for a 67-'72 chevy truck project, but then the father passed away, so the son sold the truck and the associated parts, and I scored the motor!

It will be going into my little '65 chevy van. I would love to run a 4 barrel carb, but there is no room because the side walls of the doghouse is very tight. I'm thinking about purchasing a 3x1 offy intake and rebuilding 3 old rochester BC carbs I have... what do you guys think of the mulitple single barrel carb set-ups? Too much hassle?

I dislike headers, but I do want free-flowing split exhaust for this engine. I'm thinking of purchasing a new 292 manifold and then having it split by a pro welding shop. Then maybe even side pipes!

Do you guys think the stock cam is ok for this build? If I bought a new cam, I would want a very mild grind for daily street use. What about keeping the stock cam and just change to increased ratio rocker arms to gain more valve lift? I wish I knew the stock cam specs because then I could make an informed cam decision.

Would a street motor benefit from installing the lumps in the head? Or is that more for high-rpm race engines?

Current rear gears are 3.36...

you should check out tom langdons cast iron headers they're resonably priced and work great put 23,500 miles on mine so far in 2 1/2 years not a single problem or leak

Johnny, I'm familiar with those cast headers, I want to split a stock manifold to retain the factory heat to the intake.

Kooky,
The 292 specs I have (I measured my 292 cam and it agrees) are those of the Clevite 229-1551
Lobe 232 232 valve 406 406 lift
Dur 188-188 at .050
LSA 111.5
1.5 degrees retard so
LCI=113.0
LCE=110.0
Then again the cam I measured was in a 30-over engine so it is possible the bone stock cam is different and I measured a Clevite rebuild.
For your use, given it is a fresh new long block, I'd leave the cam alone and just do intake and exhaust.

Lots of wet carb icing weather in Seattle, agreed you need the exhaust heat. Only other option would be use the Langdon exhaust, and if you have room in the truck, run a 1" spacer from an old Ford Galaxie, the heater hoses run thru it so that heats the base of the carb. You might get away with that but I like your idea too of keeping the stock heat base.

If you want to keep stock exhaust check out Splitz, seen some of his work and it appears to be top notch , http://www.splitzmanifolds.com/page5.html

Wow, thanks for the link! I just emailed Splitz. Looks like great work.

I decided to go in a different direction, so I just listed the 292 crate motor on ebay. Its .99 cents starting with no reserve and I will ship it, so if anyone is interested here ya go:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130477761500#ht_7652wt_920


(Don't ya'll worry, I'm still going to be running a six)

Should not have any trouble selling it. I would have put a reserve on it though.

You should always give your Inliner brothers first shot at any inline goodies before you put it for sale anywhere else.

The inliners.org classifieds are not working for some reason??

Also, I'm unemployed, and need every dime I can get out of my parts, so ebay is a necessary evil right now. Bills need to get paid!