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Re: [GMCnet] Reviving the Cad 500 [message #165391 is a reply to message #165382] Wed, 04 April 2012 21:20 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Ken Henderson is currently offline  Ken Henderson   United States
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After having spent ALL day in Montgomery at Pull-a-Part helping Bill
Hutchinson, John Nicholls, and Fred Veenschoten pull the 72 Eldorado engine
that I brought home with me, I'm not up to answering all the questions. In
summary: My engine guy has an engine dyno but it's not yet operational.
Since most of his race engines are Chevy's, he probably won't even have
adapters for BOPC. I see no return from running anything less than on a
full chassis dyno since the engine, torque converter, and transmission are
all suspect. And anything less than 100 miles probably wouldn't prove much
-- that's more than I would spend $400 per hour to try.

Gary, since this is a '72, I presume it has a harmonic balancer though I
didn't notice. Do you think I should run it with that crank if that's the
route I take? Or should I continue with the cast iron hub & my
Ford-sourced serpentine pulley? Just how out of balance could an iron hub
mated to another round chunk of iron pulley possibly be???

Ken H.


On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Kosier wrote:

> Sorry, Paul, but the 500s had harmonic balancer through 73.
> 74 to 76 had a big, cast iron pulley that was balanced with the
> front hub. They came as a single part number.
>
>
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