archer66
Well-Known Member
Hey all....
I'm new here and thought I would post up a series of pics to show what I have been building for the last year and a half....... and up front-forgive my spellin'
The rig had a 400 originally and I built a 460 and C6 for it about ten years ago. in late 04 I started getting some noise out of the 460 and pulled it apart expecting to do a "freshen up" job. That soon snowballed into a real full on build for the motor and a new trans ...as well as suspension and frame work.
Sorry about the dropped pics I have to sort out the supermotors mess
I'm new here and thought I would post up a series of pics to show what I have been building for the last year and a half....... and up front-forgive my spellin'
Some back ground
I have owned the Bronc for 16 years in that time it has gone from sole transportation for our family to DD for me to what is now a fulll time toy/DD.The rig had a 400 originally and I built a 460 and C6 for it about ten years ago. in late 04 I started getting some noise out of the 460 and pulled it apart expecting to do a "freshen up" job. That soon snowballed into a real full on build for the motor and a new trans ...as well as suspension and frame work.
First off some pics of the motor- and some specs
473ci (bored 460)
Arias forged flat top Pistons 9.7-1 with my heads
3D profiled H-beam rods
Comp Cam 278h-11 (234-244 @.050 w/ 111deg LC and .580 lift)
SS valves, Roller rockers, Adjustable valvetrain , guide plates, Comp pushrods
Balanced, Ported Heads and more "stuff"
The begining as the short block comes together
Fully assembled
Here is where the fun gets started I built the adapters to mate the NV4500 trans to my 205 t-case and the 460 bellhousing so here are a few pics of those goodies
Arias forged flat top Pistons 9.7-1 with my heads
3D profiled H-beam rods
Comp Cam 278h-11 (234-244 @.050 w/ 111deg LC and .580 lift)
SS valves, Roller rockers, Adjustable valvetrain , guide plates, Comp pushrods
Balanced, Ported Heads and more "stuff"
The begining as the short block comes together
Fully assembled
Here is where the fun gets started I built the adapters to mate the NV4500 trans to my 205 t-case and the 460 bellhousing so here are a few pics of those goodies
this shows the work to the tail housing to clear the t-case shift linkage
the adapter on the t-case
Now more fun-- I built the adapter for the 460 to NV4500 bellhousing both of these came out of 6061 alm. billet
the adapter on the t-case
Now more fun-- I built the adapter for the 460 to NV4500 bellhousing both of these came out of 6061 alm. billet
this is with things mocked up
I also built the clutch fork and hydrolick slave mounts
Here is the clutch and fork throw out bearing installed
The clutch disc is a ceramic -metalic / Kevlar -composite built for me by Otts' Friction in Portland. I had to clearance the flywheel for the hub to fit. this is a hot rod piece for preformance diesel motors 12-1/4" ( I had to cut that down to 12" to fit under my pressure plate.
This was all mocked up tweaked and then final assembled and installed
Now under the rig I built a new cross member and skid plate and boxed the frame and added some Cage Offroad long rad arms and springs,shock hoops
This one shows how I fabed the trans mount out of some old suspension bushings and tied it in
After it all went together I fired the Motor on a Friday eve, Saturday pulled the T-case and trany tail housing to weld up a crack that showed up after runing the motor awhile, Monday took it to the exhaust shop got it back wednesday evening ,loaded it on the trailer Friday and pulled out for Moab Utah on Saturday morning........ went down for the Easter Jeep safari wheeled for most of the week and had it on display in the vendors area (Cage offroads booth- they are customers of mine ) late in the week... what a blast
Here are a few pics from there
So that should give you an idea of what has eaten all my spare time over the last year...
While unloading in Moab I got to hearing a lifter noise .. it got worse so I did another valve train adj. .. to no avail ... the cam had gone flat. We ran it all week anyway having pulled 1000+ miles to get there.
So now I have the motor apart , changing cam and lifters as well as new rod and main bearings and a light grind on the crank.... even with precautionary oil /filter changes while down there the billions of pieces of cam hurt the bearings........But damn it pulled hard.
I can not wait to get it on the local chassis dyno in the next few weeks and see what this monster really makes for power.
I also built the clutch fork and hydrolick slave mounts
Here is the clutch and fork throw out bearing installed
The clutch disc is a ceramic -metalic / Kevlar -composite built for me by Otts' Friction in Portland. I had to clearance the flywheel for the hub to fit. this is a hot rod piece for preformance diesel motors 12-1/4" ( I had to cut that down to 12" to fit under my pressure plate.
This was all mocked up tweaked and then final assembled and installed
Now under the rig I built a new cross member and skid plate and boxed the frame and added some Cage Offroad long rad arms and springs,shock hoops
This one shows how I fabed the trans mount out of some old suspension bushings and tied it in
After it all went together I fired the Motor on a Friday eve, Saturday pulled the T-case and trany tail housing to weld up a crack that showed up after runing the motor awhile, Monday took it to the exhaust shop got it back wednesday evening ,loaded it on the trailer Friday and pulled out for Moab Utah on Saturday morning........ went down for the Easter Jeep safari wheeled for most of the week and had it on display in the vendors area (Cage offroads booth- they are customers of mine ) late in the week... what a blast
Here are a few pics from there
So that should give you an idea of what has eaten all my spare time over the last year...
The post script
While unloading in Moab I got to hearing a lifter noise .. it got worse so I did another valve train adj. .. to no avail ... the cam had gone flat. We ran it all week anyway having pulled 1000+ miles to get there.
So now I have the motor apart , changing cam and lifters as well as new rod and main bearings and a light grind on the crank.... even with precautionary oil /filter changes while down there the billions of pieces of cam hurt the bearings........But damn it pulled hard.
I can not wait to get it on the local chassis dyno in the next few weeks and see what this monster really makes for power.
It's all good
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