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Originally Posted by jeff68
Good choice. Norm did the L30 engine in my 68 back in the mid 80's. That little 327 surprised a lot of people. I can't wait to get it running again, especially now that my Quadrajet is properly set up. A fresh 302 is going to be awesome.
I love the plans for the car. As for the rear end, are you just going to have it cleaned & repainted? New Gardner exhaust maybe?
If you need additional help, just give me a call.
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I'm going to try to get away with as little repainting as I can. Just the surface rust areas. Worst case is I will rattle-can the underside and engine bay. I'm going to leave the exterior alone even though it could use a repaint. I figure I'll drive it for 5-10 years as is. I just don't like the surface rust everywhere.
I will probably go with a Gardner exhaust connected to Doug Thorley headers. The headers came in already.
One slight problem is that I'd like to keep everything totally stock. A stock 302 had a compression ratio of 11.5:1 which means it will
probably run terrible on pump gas. There is a Sunoco station about 2 miles from Kaman in Bloomfield CT where I could get Sunoco 260 GT100 which is 100 octane unleaded so it wouldn't be too bad.
Thanks for the offer to help. If I run into a bind, I might take you up on that.