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Graveyard Carz (2012) Season 20 Episode 3- Could It Bee a 383
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00:00well what what tell little boys and girls out in TV land what we're looking at 1970
00:24Coronet Superbee Superbee that's right you know the answer you shoot it right out there right
00:28okay that doesn't make it rare so Mark has me looking at a 70s Superbee no big deal but he's
00:36acting coy something's going on and he's usually trying to set me up take a look inside don't get
00:41don't be shy don't be shy oh me casa su casa bucket seats console four speed one of the biggies one of
00:48the bleeggies well four speeds not the rare part but the bucket seats and console is rarest of all
00:54the hoods a lot of these were bench seats yeah that's a rare and desirable and valuable hood
00:59so folks this is definitely a Mopar mystery an unsolved Mopar mystery because it's perhaps
01:07one of the biggest potential gaffes that the manufacturer ever made and the fact that it's
01:13original paint and the car is pure and we have a backstory on it makes this unsolved mystery even
01:21more compelling than some of them that Tony and I have looked at in the past original paint looks
01:26to be I mean pretty worn that stripe definitely looks original so I took time before Tony got here
01:32to go over this car very thoroughly from the front to the back combing every square inch of it because
01:36my goal was to make sure that I was reporting back to him correctly so if I say trust me the paint is
01:41original paint it is well in this case it is original paint okay which is what makes this potential
01:47mistake this factory gaff even more compelling more exciting more unusual than most of them we've ever
01:54seen if you didn't have Mark Orman you'd have to invent him how did I get here
02:24I have no idea why my dad is crazy it's not easy being the number one painter
02:41Mark hates everybody he always has
02:47they're coming to get you Barbara
03:12so far what we've learned here is we have a 1970 Dodge what would appear to be a Super B
03:29what's the emblem say on the fender well right in front of us is 33 Magnum 383 Magnum that's right
03:34nothing fancy there 383 four speed how many of those would you say they made if you had to guess
03:38four speeds four speeds oh maybe 9000 599 383 446 pack four speeds I thought you said 383s we're
03:47talking about whoop there it is one of the benefits of coming out here a number of times is you get
03:53used to the way things go here and Mark's always doing something to try to get you I guess because I get
03:59him he wants to get me so I'm always a little weary for the setup let's have a little look at that
04:05bad boy right there what you seeing under the hood ain't no 383i ever seen in my lifetime no looks like a
04:12446 pack
04:14yes it does well that's it that's all you know no I didn't want to jump in on you I apologize it's got
04:21cheapy chrome aftermarket valve covers late low performance exhaust manifold low performance double
04:27whammy double whammy okay how about the factory presser light dual point distributor oh three three
04:31didn't have that in 70 but that's a Mallory type dual point you know that's typical hot rod stuff what
04:37here's our block is that a numbers matching 446 pack block though that's a D 440 D 440 what what's
04:45D mean 68 model in 1970 a Dodge Super B came standard with a 383 Magnum optional was a 446 pack not the
04:56444 barrel 446 pack and the 426 Hemi if you had a non ram charger non in 96 1970 Super B
05:07like we do meaning it doesn't have a cold air hood with the two scoops then the fender would have an
05:12emblem on it that says 383 Magnum if it was a 383 car this has that emblem on it if you had a ram charger
05:20hood and a 383 the letters would not be on the fender they'd be small letters up on the actual scoops
05:25of the hood let's say it was a v code 446 pack with a non ram charger hood go back to our
05:35v5 blue 1970 Super B from Mr. Ledford standard issue hood 446 pack car nowhere on that car is it
05:45badged on the exterior 440 I don't know exactly why it would have Super B up on that standard hood and
05:53nothing on the fender what I want you to see is another piece piece of authenticity which is the
06:00door VIN label is that fair sure take your time read it out loud okay what I see is WM which is Super B
06:0923 which is hardtop and V V not an N well we got a problem here Houston we have a problem I was so
06:20glad to see the original door vehicle identification number label still intact on this car true V code car
06:29I've already checked the numbers on the radiator support and the trunk lift they match the title
06:35the fender tag and the dash fin we have a real 446 pack car with 383 Magnum emblems mounted on the
06:47fenders but would you look at that label and tell me if it looks to you like it's been on that door
06:52for a long time oh absolutely yeah even the placement of it's off kilt and nobody would put it on like
06:58that so now you're starting to see why I'm pulling you over we've got an original paint car
07:02an original door VIN no way's out of that stuff folks that's that's the way it is an obvious 446 pack
07:08car and a 383 on the end of it there's some simple explanations but I've kind of ruled a lot of them
07:14out the real question is going to be when was the emblem put on was it put on on the assembly line
07:22as a mistake if that's the case that's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time we're gonna open the
07:28hood and take a look at the fender tag I know I just didn't want you to look at it and then we're
07:33gonna say you can see what my problem is but I want to get this narrowed down because this has
07:37actually got me stumped I love trying to find out the whodunit when we find something weird on a car
07:43you know most of the time it usually pans out being somebody did something throughout the years
07:48but it's so cool to try to investigate and find out what really happened why and how we talk about
07:55that stuff on the phone he'll call me I'll call him and it just amazes us and we find it interesting
07:59I'm going to allow you now to look at the fender tag
08:03still to come when John from Phillips racecraft shows up Dougie discovers the fate of the nasty
08:11engine they look like a bomb went off Alyssa joins her uncle to build out of 440 HP but will Mark's
08:18mandate throw a wrench in the gears I have to use a speeder wrench and what will Tony uncover when he
08:25sees the fender tag for the first time does that look like the tag that might have started life on this
08:31car when graveyard cars returns shut the door baby it's cold outside so John came down today from
08:44Phillips racecraft and he brought us three engines one of which is the nasty engine I'm really looking
08:51forward to seeing how this one came out so John you're trying to tell me this is that nasty rusty
08:58engine sure I sent up to you it sure is and this is what you brought back yep that's correct if you
09:05guys don't remember this is a 1968 Cornette engine from last season that we thought was left underwater
09:10it was rusty crusty had all kinds of rust and debris I'm blown away that this is the same engine I'm blown
09:19away myself so this being the numbers matching engine for the car I knew how important it was to
09:25try to save it and preserve it and get it back to a good running foundation again was this hard to
09:31take apart it was very hard to take apart what we ended up doing was soaking the block for about
09:36three weeks in an acid bath have the piston soften up to where we could remove them easier by pounding
09:43them out at that point and so we didn't really have to drill them or anything they just came out
09:47didn't hurt the block just ate the aluminum a little bit and then they were able to come out a lot
09:52easier well I really wish I would have known about the acid bath trick because I spent hours and hours
09:58drilling days drilling all these pistons out underneath this engine I had the biggest pile
10:04of aluminum and metal from those pistons those things are hard to drill it looked like a bomb went
10:10off underneath this thing when I was done after the pistons came out I thought at one point we might
10:15have had a cracked cylinder but it was just a water trail from before and so after boring all the
10:21cylinders and ultrasonic testing the block and checking for cracks via mag particle inspection we
10:28were able to verify that this thing is good to go and I was so happy after it made it to 55 thousandths
10:35with the boring machine and I knew we were home free we could hone the last five thousandths no sleeves no
10:43bush lifter borers I can't believe it no pitting in here smooth lifter borers the lifters were also
10:50very stuck and so lots of penetrating oil for for a few days it wasn't something overnight this took a
10:57lot of time to get this thing apart and not have it get damaged we treaded softly and and did it correctly
11:03and we saved it nice work John so once we blew the motor apart we did the mag particle inspection
11:10process on it we did the ultrasonic testing on it and then at that time after realizing hey everything's
11:17good we can proceed forward now we're going to go ahead and put it in the oven bake it do the shot
11:22blasting tumble it and then do another secondary examination and inspection with mag particle again
11:29this was critical to do this because you know it was really bad shape and so we had to make sure that
11:35it was good to go and then from that point forward we checked the main line it was good square deck the
11:41block and board it 60 thousandths and honed it we did not need any sleeves like we originally thought
11:48and the lifter board did not need to be bushed there was absolutely zero pitting in the lifter
11:53boards I just I'm still blown away see what the bottom end looks like take a look and tell me what's going
11:59on down there okay this crankshaft is the original crank from this motor we oven baked it shot blasted
12:09it put on the crank grinder reground it polished it chamfered the oil holes and of the three motors that
12:16I just got from you guys I mean they all functioned perfectly but this crank just spun so amazing and
12:22you wouldn't have thought that from from what you were dealing with in the beginning uh-huh I don't
12:28know exactly what happened to the engine but I'm pretty confident it was underwater Doug was right
12:33it was submerged and I've never seen anything like it and I also notice that you've got one of the
12:37Mancini rear main seals in here yeah they're they're great they have a dual square cut o-ring two grooves on
12:46each side plus they recommend a thin layer of RTV down both sides and on the bottom and go ahead and torque
12:55that down and you've got the best possibility of not having a rear main seal leak so I can't wait
13:02to put this thing together John and fire it up again this is going to be so awesome to hear this
13:06dead nasty engine run again thank you John hey thank you so appreciate it thank you so much yeah I can't
13:13wait to see it on the test run stand and actually living another day this is what graveyard cars is all
13:19about make them run again bringing them back from the dead very cool I had the fender tag taped off
13:32because I didn't want to see it before you read anything before you read anything does that fender
13:38tag at a glance look like the tag that might have started life on this car certainly it's been on there
13:43a long time screws match up with our st. Louis build tell me what the first set of numbers in
13:50the lower left-hand corner are E87 440 six-pack second one's a d21 four-speed car that's right so by
14:00that we got a 440 six-pack four speed right very good this is the original emission decal that's pretty
14:07worn out but what engine was it for that says 440 doesn't specify six barrel there but it does say the
14:13RPM is 900 which I believe that's higher than a 444 and we know that a 444 barrel wasn't even
14:20available on this car right okay so the real question is did somebody add the 383 Magnum emblem
14:28maybe to fool somebody on Saturday night cruising or did the manufacturer really make a mistake
14:35that's what we're gonna find out if we've got an original fender tag and original emission decal
14:40door VIN dash VIN body members everything's right so we've got a 440 transplant so what right right
14:47right it looks like it's a 440 car why is there 383 emblems on it
14:52okay so Alyssa today we're working on a 1968 440 HP engine I've basically built out the bottom end of
15:09this engine so today our goal is going to be to get the heads on the intake manifold on the exhaust
15:17manifolds on and we want to get this thing on the run stand so we can fire it up and see how this
15:21engine runs because it's had a horrible life previously okay you brought me in for the fun
15:26stuff that sounds good yes so today my dad wants me to work with Doug put together a 440 Magnum engine
15:32from a coronet RT so I've put engines together before with Doug but I guess this one was in really
15:38really bad shape Doug showed me a couple pictures and it was worse than any one that I have built before
15:43my guess is my dad wants me to work with Doug because there's something a little bit different
15:47about this engine and there's something to learn either way I don't care I love working with Doug
15:51what's the first thing we're gonna do now put on the gaskets yes first step right head gasket
15:58correct okay and you know which one those are obviously okay so typically I put them on with the
16:09metal pieces down and mostly the blue side up like that mostly with the stripes yes see these two
16:19little pins right here we call them dowel pins they align the head with the bolt holes there's the
16:26rear dowel right there here's the front dowel okay I'm gonna go get the head I'm gonna set it on here
16:34that's the dowel pin hole right there right here so I'm gonna set it on the dowel pins
16:41very carefully there we go nice okay now I'm gonna have you grab five long head bolts off the table
16:54okay so the main reason I have Alyssa working with me today on this engine is because this engine was
16:59really bad before and we look at it now and I want her to be able to see the difference and see what our
17:05capabilities are to restore an engine like this each for Highland yes dawn calls them eye bolts why if
17:15you turn it sideways it's an eye right no no how's that it's an eye like the letter in the alphabet not
17:26like an eyeball I get it now okay so they go down here right I forget okay we got one two three
17:34four five long bolts okay so you can go ahead and start them a little bit with your fingers now I
17:41have to use a speeder wrench why because Mark's been going a little crazy lately did you ruin something
17:50no this is an old-school tool before power tools so the reason that we use this is on sensitive torque
17:58areas you don't want to use an impact to tighten down bolts because you could over torque
18:04one of the bolts and potentially have a head gasket leak and we don't want that okay when I was at JC
18:11Penny Auto Center back in 80 I think they wouldn't give us rookies impact guns they gave us speed
18:18branches this is great yeah it's not bad it's just can't use it in a lot of applications if you have
18:25anything you have to go around this probably wouldn't work very well yeah that's true and everything you
18:29did and other than lug nuts and things that required an impact you had to use a speed wrench and it
18:34guaranteed you weren't gonna cross thread anything you weren't gonna destroy anything so now we need
18:39one two three four small bolts for the inside of the head it's just a good safety measure to have I don't
18:48think it hurts for Elisa to learn that now so this is a wire holder yep that goes in the first second third
18:55hole on the left side is where this wire holder goes there are 17 head bolts that hold each head
19:02on the 383 and 440 wedge engines so it's important for Elisa to learn that one head bolt on each head
19:09holds a wire separator and if you forget to put that on you got to ask yourself do I really want
19:15a chance replacing that head gasket after all that okay so the next thing we're gonna do is torque this side
19:22down we're gonna rotate the engine around and do the other side okay I love this part twerking
19:27twerking the twerking part yeah that's cool yeah it's fun so when it comes time to torque down the
19:33parts on the engine Dougie always brings up it has never forgotten when I showed him what twerking was
19:38we're gonna go ahead and torque them down twerk down or torque torqued okay I thought you're gonna
19:43about to twerk for me Doug wasn't sure huh do you want to see what twerking actually is the type of dance I
19:50don't think you've ever seen before and I gotta say his reaction to that was perfect oh boy you
19:57don't think you could do that whoa let's get back to work okay okay so when we torque the head bolts on
20:08our engines we start with a torque setting of 45 foot pounds then we increase to 75 foot pounds for a
20:15final torque setting so number one is right here the center top always following the torque sequence
20:22in the book tighten this down till you hear it click like that then I'm gonna go to number two right here
20:31so it's nice to have Alyssa's help with this because she keeps me on the torque sequence five well all I
20:37have to focus on is the foot pounds okay so now Alyssa I'm gonna turn this up to 75 foot pounds and
20:48we're gonna do it again okay all right so now we're gonna spin it and we're gonna do the other side coming
21:00up will Alyssa live up to her father's expectations I know my dad wished he'd had a boy will the nasty
21:07engine be all that's cracked up to be we're gonna crank it and see what happens and will the mystery
21:14of the 383 badge finally come to light so we need to know what's on there that will help us come up with
21:21the final answer okay there it is oh wow find out when graveyard cars returns we have a whole bunch
21:32of wire retainers on a 1968 engine that hold all the wires so we're not going to worry about these
21:39right now our goal is to get the engine running today so I'm not going to worry about the wire
21:43retainers all right that sounds good to me because this engine is a 1968 and I have to research whether
21:49this is an air conditioning car or not I'm not going to put the spark plug wires on the exhaust manifold
21:55because we got to get this on the run stand so that we can run it as quick as possible we can always
22:00go back later they're not as sensitive as the head bolts are we can put these back on easily and they
22:06don't have to be torqued the same way the head does this is the right-hand manifold I know because it
22:11has a heat riser that goes on the right side there's the penistar right you want to read the numbers
22:162806900 this casting number tells you that it's a right-hand exhaust manifold okay so we're going
22:24to put that on right now it goes between the heat shields and I'll take the two that's perfect these
22:31two bolts are special bolts that go right in here yeah they're interesting cool really yeah I'm really
22:38glad I'm working with Dougie today I'm learning some new things on this particular engine I know my
22:42dad knows the casting numbers off the top of his head I don't but I am just now beginning to kind
22:47of learn what the casting numbers are what they mean in this case I know what to look for when it
22:52comes to casting numbers for an exhaust manifold for a 440 HP okay so here's our driver's side exhaust
22:59manifold it's kind of an upswept manifold here's the part number and the penistar 284-3992-1
23:09okay so if you want to hold that side it will guide this over the side so after we got the exhaust
23:23manifolds on and tightened down we installed the lifters the push rods and the rocker assemblies
23:28all this reminds me of when I was younger and my dad built model cars with me I know my dad wished
23:34she'd had a boy I'm sorry you got a girl I just wanted to play with Barbies so you know I wasn't
23:40really interested at that time I think that was probably a little bit disappointing for him and
23:44then as I got older I still really wasn't into cars that was something that was just so normal part of
23:48my life I just didn't have any appreciation for it but at least he spent time with me and we built
23:52model cars and we had a lot of fun so I'm learning now that building these engines in real life is a
23:56lot like building them with the model cars you have to do things in a certain sequence in order to do it
24:01right and if you get ahead of yourself you're gonna have to start right back over I will say I am a
24:06lot more interested now than I was when I was six years old so any dads out there don't give up on
24:11your daughters they still got plenty of time okay so it's always fun to work with Alyssa on these
24:16engine assemblies because she's so quick to pick things up yeah so unfortunately Mark's pulling
24:32her off to do some her other jobs that she has to do around here but I will call her back when it's
24:37time to fire this up she made me promise just to catch everybody back up on our unsolved mystery
24:551970 Dodge Superbee we've got an original fender tag dash fin door vent we've got body numbers that
25:01match we've got original paint we've got a 70 Superbee there's no doubt a 440 six-pack four-speed car
25:06which with the hood that's on it being a non in 96 Ram charger hood shouldn't have any emblems that
25:14say anything about an engine this one of all things has 383 Magnum as though it was the standard in
25:21Venn designation 383 Magnum car but it's not what does that mean how did we end up with an emblem
25:30there if it's original paint car I have two scenarios first one is factory made a mistake
25:37because the vast majority of the Superbee's made with 33 it was a standard engine so in a 1970 you
25:45only had two optional engines which were six pack and the Hemi 440 six pack and the Hemi you couldn't
25:50get a 444 barrel in this car correct okay now if it had a 446 pack like this one right what emblem would
25:56have nothing there was no call out if it was a six pack on it really jumped out at me on our blue
26:02one remember the I don't know if you paid attention to blue on blue Jim Ledford great guy Colonel Jessup
26:07basically retired right yes this car was all original paint when it came in and there were
26:12no signs that anybody ever had a hole in that fender no you know it looked like it was a no emblem or the
26:18other option and I remember back in the day get a little street race action going on you'd always want
26:23to underplay your hand I had a 440 in a car one time and I re-stamped it to say 400 on top of course
26:29a Mopar guy might know that might know it's not supposed to be a pad on top right but it showed
26:34well to other people that didn't know don't think I didn't think of that but this is just a good old
26:39salt-of-the-earth couple and if you add it on that's not the easiest thing to add on so let's just
26:45say that this car is a 333 car the end code okay and it's coming down the assembly line when do the
26:51holes in the fender that hold that emblem on get made do they get made before the car is painted
26:57or after the car absolutely before paint I'm going to even assume before prime but I don't I don't
27:03want to swear to that and why it was absolutely before paint why before paint why not just do it
27:07on the assembly line because if they made it after paint you would then be making holes in the fender
27:12whether it was done with a stamping tool or a drill okay I'm sure it's a stamping tool because
27:16it's always clean then you would be having bare metal exposed which could rust if this is a real
27:21factory mistake this is big this is a 50-foot shark you've heard about but you haven't seen in person
27:26did the factory really punch holes in a 383 fender and have no choice but to put emblems on it and then
27:34send it down the road so far everything we've seen says yeah if you agree with me that the fender is
27:41original paint and we take that emblem off and the paint is in much better shape but not only is it
27:47in much better shape because I couldn't put on the day you got it home right but that's not all it's
27:52got to have paint in the holes right around for it to have been a factory screw-up it has to have paint
27:59in those holes if there's paint in a hole there's if there's orange in the hole tough one to rhyme
28:09with if there's give me a minute you guys have nothing else to do if those holes are drilled and
28:16there is bare metal and you can see that it would begin to rust where that paint was broken mm-hmm then
28:21we know that somebody out of that emblem whether the dealer did it because they thought it'd be funny
28:26or the guy did it and can't remember doing it or who knows what it was if there's paint all through
28:32it the factory blew it johnny cochran but that is what I believe in my heart of hearts an original
28:43paint car that's a six-pack car v code shouldn't have anything on the fender right now has the
28:49standard base model super b emblem on it right one of the things that will contribute here it's not a
28:55smoking gun like if there's paint hole but it does contribute to the validity of it being a factory
29:01mistake is what fasteners are holding it on they should be a bell nut a bell nuts used on the side
29:05markers it's used on other emblems it's an enclosed nut that's a self cutter it's designed that when
29:10it's in place if you rub your hand up inside there for whatever and you want to watch the inside of
29:15your fender well or you're reaching for something you wouldn't cut yourself it's a nice blunt end that's
29:20the point behind it so I'm gonna get Marty the odds that somebody would have gone out found the badge
29:27which wouldn't have had the nuts on it and then source the correct nuts say it was 1971 and they're
29:33still available who'd go back to the dealer and buy them wouldn't they just go to the local hardware
29:37store and put on some speed nuts and call it a day so we need to know what's on there that will help us
29:42come up with the final answer on this car okay there it is oh wow
29:49okay there it is oh wow
30:00dull nuts yeah that's what would have been holding it on on the assembly line these are the nuts that
30:08were holding that emblem on and these are definitely a factory bell nut okay so just to drive this home
30:15if you went into Chrysler in 1971 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 70 I don't care as long as the parts were available
30:21said I want 383 Magnum emblem for the fender in my 1970 Dodge Coronet sure here you go part number this
30:27and give us some money you discover you don't have the fastening nuts for it most people would say well
30:31I'll just go to the hardware store and get something that would work that's pretty common maybe they had
30:36the forethought to say yeah give me the correct nuts what are they bell nuts yeah that's what I
30:40want because 50 years now Mark from Graveyard Car is going to take me apart and I want to be able to
30:43fool him maybe maybe not having the original part number on with the original vendor code on the
30:49emblem itself and the evidence that it was on there for 50 years all of these are the most compelling
30:55things that lead up to if it started life on that car and if it was a factory gaffe so now we need to
31:01see what this thing's going to look like oh man oh man I'm seeing orange I'm seeing orange holy crap
31:11that is orange and look at the condition of the paint this is a new one to me I've never seen where
31:16they've actually drilled holes to put an emblem on and put an emblem on that didn't even belong there
31:23I could see if they put the wrong emblem on but this was not supposed to have an emblem how about look
31:28you're on the ground can you look up at the top part yes absolutely just to make sure we got it
31:34covered right it is absolutely USDA primetime painted all the way around wow you know another
31:42thing I was thinking wow I've hardly ever seen anybody else especially back in the day add an
31:48emblem in exactly the correct location and alignment point right and that looks you know because you've had
31:55to do it here on course how tough you have to go out back and measure and how many what are the odds
31:58they got another 70 Super B that they can look that's gonna show where the holes are he's not
32:02gonna know where the holes are if you know even if he finds the car no so yeah this was a factory
32:08mistake I love it this one was worth from what mark put me through because you know normally it's it's
32:16something silly but I really like this this was so cool when we took the emblem off for the first time
32:22since 1970 it's been on the car and we actually got to see the orange paint in the holes that is
32:28that's something else I just find that stuff cool we're used to the everyday stuff that we see all
32:33the time maybe we're spoiled because we see all the Hemis and six packs and not saying that they're
32:38redundant when you find something quirky like this it's sort of neat and sparks you keeps your interest
32:43going just to quickly summarize for a little boy and girl in TV land out there I don't think we're
32:48speculating anymore I think this is now what went on in the brain of the person I don't know but
32:53somebody made holes in these fenders for the correct 383 Magnum emblem prior to painting we've
33:01got an original paint fender so the only person would have done that was the factory gets on the
33:07assembly line somebody sees the WM23V says hey I could have had a V8 remember the old commercial
33:13and says what do we do now they go get the foreman who's not in a good mood anyway how do you know
33:19they told anybody they might have slapped it on there and just said screw you how by the time they
33:24figure out that this has a 383 Magnum emblem on it and it's a 70 Superview with a 446 pack I'd really
33:31love to know how it was discovered that this was incorrect did the guy realize it after he made the
33:37holes in the assembly line did the paint shop realize it when they were painting the car how about the guy
33:41I was putting the emblem on did he see it what about quality control at the end of the assembly line
33:45where do you inspect the cars for gaps and this and that who saw it the dealership maybe or what did
33:50it have to fall on the owners hands but this is the fun stuff folks the ghosting that the fact that
33:56it's got the fan to it like probably a door jam would be if you could take a door off and just take a look
34:01at it and just to confirm this nothing else but Superview went on that's it it didn't matter what
34:07he checked in the parts period in the story right yep and I'll be damned well there you go folks that
34:13is a big one well I was really in my brain I was expecting those just to be bare metal underneath there
34:18I'm more surprised to see this I am much more surprised guys what we have found out is that this
34:23unsolved mystery is no longer unsolved original paint fender all the body numbers match a VIN matches
34:31fender tag dash VIN door VIN an emblem with the correct part numbers on it and the correct vendor
34:36code with the Pentastar on it all these add up the bell nuts huge not not the smoking gun but huge huge
34:45and a client who drives it all home by saying ever since dad brought that car home it had a
34:53383 Magnum on the fender but the one that really is the smoking gun the one that would stand on its
34:58own merit the most is the fact that when we took the emblem off for the first time in what appears
35:04to be 50 years there was paint all 360 degrees around the inside of those holes if you drilled a
35:10hole and you brush touched it you'd know it was a brush touch if you drilled a hole you put the emblem
35:16on it came back in a couple of years outside in the rain there'd be rust around the holes because
35:20of bare metal but a hole that looks like it was pierced from the factory with paint in it 50 years
35:28later a ghost image on the fender supporting it bell nuts all the documentation and nomenclature on
35:35the car comes up to the factory punched a hole in this fender a saw mystery and perhaps the coolest
35:42one we've ever done at graveyard cars because you had a nice day remember that song yes it was actually a
35:48bad day but a graveyard cars every day is a good day so remember what the tray said if it's got paint
35:55all through it the factory blew it oh Johnny Cocker they got on me still to come has Alyssa lost confidence
36:10and her uncle's abilities I don't remember being this scared for any of the other startups or is Dougie
36:16taking undue risks with a potentially volatile engine should we be doing this outside why are we inside
36:22oh we're safe in here will this formerly nasty 440 HP start up or blow up we're getting closer
36:30giving it more advanced point off when graveyard cars returns so after Alyssa left I finished assembling
36:41the engine I had to put an intake manifold on valve covers an exhaust system and then drop in a distributor
36:47so it'd be ready to run so now that I have it all set up I'm gonna go grab Alyssa as per my promise
36:53and we'll see if it'll run I was really looking forward to seeing this run so thank you for
36:59grabbing me and not forgetting nope nope hopefully everything is gonna work great so yeah I did get
37:05the rocker shafts on the valve covers on the intake manifold on so we just got a few aftermarket parts
37:12on here got a test run distributor Edelbrock AVS2 that's a good carburetor it's full of oil it's full
37:18water get the belts on to run the water pump we're gonna use an electric fan we're gonna start spinning
37:24this engine over and see if we have oil pressure so we have our exhaust system and we have our exhaust
37:30fan over there that's gonna draw the exhaust out after this thing fires up that's so cool what we're
37:36gonna do first we're gonna hit the ignition button we're gonna keep the coil power off okay we just
37:44want to crank it and see if we can get some oil pressure going okay
38:00we got oil pressure smell it smells kind of sweet yeah something yeah so I just put a pretty good draw on
38:08that battery so I want to turn the battery charger on okay and supplement it why did we do that we just
38:15want to make sure it had oil pressure is that why you get some pressure some oil through the engine okay
38:19before we try to start it you're kind of priming it priming it exactly yeah so like the carburetor
38:25for instance if I turn on the fuel pump I'm gonna hit the throttle a bunch you tell me if you're seeing
38:32uh oh yeah gas yep spraying in there yeah awesome okay so we've got that primed that smells good too
38:43I'm gonna back the distributor up a little bit we don't want this thing backfiring and making a nice
38:49fire here uh no yeah one thing to note you might look at the exhaust manifold you'll see that this
38:55engine has not been run yet okay hey we're still on it yep okay yep you don't see any leaks yet right
39:02everything's all dry over there still floor's dry we're good okay so in regards to the distributor
39:08what do you mean by advancing it so what I did was move the distributor counterclockwise if I get too far
39:15before it's gonna backfire and I see we don't want to do that because we could catch a fire and damage
39:21some things and so I start by retarding it somewhat what would make what would have it cause a fire
39:29if it's turned too far one way if you turn the distributor too far advanced it's gonna start firing
39:37when the valves are open and it'll it'll oh okay I see it'll fire right out the carburetor I see and
39:43that's what will cause the fire yep see this is why I love working with Doug I always learn something
39:49and this is the first time I've actually understood timing so if you guys look back at when Doug is
39:53starting an engine on one of these engine run stands for the first time there's been times where
39:57it's backfired and started a fire that's because the intake valve was still open and that all has to
40:02do with timing I mean sometimes you get this thing advanced enough and you get enough fuel in the
40:08exhaust system when you're trying to start these things they'll blow the mufflers up oh my gosh should we
40:14be doing this outside why are we inside oh we're safe in here okay you're talking about blowing stuff
40:19up and I'm like there's nowhere to go no okay so now we have fuel I'm going to add power I'm going to
40:26crank it and see where we're at okay ready yep okay here's our coil power we've added our fuel
40:37we're going to crank it and see what happens
40:38oh check that out I think that's too retarded okay we have it back too far yep it backfired
40:47out the exhaust oh my gosh I'll try again okay
40:55it's trying to fire what do you mean it tried to run yeah it sounded good I thought when you said fire
41:02I'm like is something else nope I don't remember being this scared for any of the other startups okay so I
41:07moved it up just a little bit more give a little more fuel
41:25it's trying to run but listen when I advance the distributor we're getting closer giving it more advance
41:31I don't see any leaks looks good yeah no leaks I'm going to turn our exhaust fan on
41:44okay so that's a good starting point I'm going to raise the idle okay okay I'm going to check the other
41:51side see how we're looking I'll follow behind you the exhaust is starting to burn off yeah getting hot
41:58yeah I don't see any leaks no oil no fuel
42:04perfect see our tachometer we're setting up 2000. that's where you want it to be right yep
42:12that's good for break in on the camshaft okay so this thing fired up great today yeah it did running
42:21really good for a brand new engine so with that we're going to let this run for 20 minutes at 2000
42:27rpms to break in the camshaft we'll top off the water and we'll come back to this okay sounds good
42:35good thank you thank you you're welcome i'll see you in like 20. okay
42:46once the engine's all warmed up i can use the timing light on it so watch the timing marks on the
42:52balancer because when i move the distributor clockwise it moves it to the advance when i back
42:58it up counterclockwise it moves it to the retard so you'll see we've marked the timing cover we've
43:05marked the balancer when we line up those two marks we've got five degrees advance so now that i got the
43:10timing set on this engine and it's running good we got no leaks or no problems like that so i'm going to
43:16get this thing off the run stand down the wheel for paint and once it gets back i'm going to dress this
43:21thing all out get it ready to go in the car john did a great job on this one
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