Posted by WellWorn on September 14, 2010 at 10:22:08 from (74.84.253.27):
I have a '51 Super A that I inherited with a freeze crack from front to back on the left side (I hear it's a common problem). It was working ok for a while, but took to blowing oil from the head gasket and leaking anti-freeze from the bondo patched crack. It was also blowing compression into the crank case, and oil fowling plugs, so it really needed a major anyway - but not with a trash block.
I located a sound block, stripped and boiled for $500, and wonder how those who have 'been there' before, would do it from the ground up: High compression pistons? Flat tops? Standard 3" bore? 3 1/8? Are hardened valves and seats available for no-lead fuel?
Anything else you might think of?
I figure if I'm gonna do it, I may as well do it as right as I can.
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