Dead 292 Of COURSE not Zig ! . You know I run these old rigs far too hard , far and wide to be building a time bomb . 292's are long stroke engines so overspeeding them results in sudden death sooner than later . I like to build high flow , low compression engine that'll take a beating and keep running for decades ~ laying down rubber is childish and a wa$te of time and $$.... Rant over , try to keep up with my old truck .
Those walls really look nasty even after the honing, little bit of work and it could be saved. There was a time when I put rings and inserts back into a 283 which had some walls similar to that and ran it for about a year till I got the money together to buy a 350 engine to put into my 65 C20. And with the help of my now X wife 2's hubby at the time he was soon to be her X #1, we did all that on a Saturday and an early Sunday by noon we had the 65 running and ready for the CHP inspection Monday morning. Charles
Engine Works These pits will never hone out and there's a fair bit of a ridge too ~ I know I can assemble it and make run well but I have an oil burner now and will be installing new pistons so off I go looking for another , better , cheaper engine . I believe this bock to be .030" over right now and these are ' thinwall ' design engines so boring past .030" is always a dicy proposition . I do ' stuff ' engines with the good stuff , most of my stock(ish) builds out run most Hot Rods , much to their concernation .
While getting stuff ready when I redo the manifolds I found a Victor/reinz manifold set I must have bought off fleabay and never checked what it is for. Turns out it is for the 292 and I'll drop it off to you as soon as i can get out there to look at that manifold you spoke of. "V/R # MS16033X for gas 4.6 ohv 292"
THANK YOU ! . That'll come in very handy indeed . Whenever you get to it , no rush Charles . I drove it to - day running errands etc. and 1/2 the time one cylinder was cutting out from oil fouling .
