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Old 09-19-2006, 09:34 PM
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I have a guy trying to trade me a "360" short block, he got frustrated with because no LA heads he has will fit it. He is not very knowledgeable at all, and tried putting a set of 318 heads, but he said it had 5 bolts per cylinder. I know, I know, all Mopar SB have 4. He gave me the casting #s, but I can't find them in my SB OR my BB books, both done in about '90, so I have no idea. I have googled them to no avail. Can you help me ID this thing? The #s are:

360 25686
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Old 09-19-2006, 11:28 PM
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check out this web site and look at the R3 block that has the 6 bolts per cylinder, well 18 total per side. I dont know of a 5 bolt head, boy could it be a..nope, Ford 360 used 4 bolts too. Beats meEven a 318 head would fit a R block if they didnt use the small top/bottom studs though.
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Old 09-19-2006, 11:32 PM
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You may have an AMC 360 short block.
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Old 09-19-2006, 11:49 PM
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duh forgot about those, That be it!

AMC
3195528 360 70-84
3195528 390,401 70-80
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Old 09-20-2006, 12:25 AM
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thats what i was gonna say sanborn. they have the distributor up front dont they?
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Old 09-20-2006, 12:26 AM
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yep, they do, here a link with some info

http://www.novak-adapt.com/knowledge/amc_v8.htm
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Old 09-20-2006, 12:36 AM
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Buy it cheap, get some "dog leg" exhaust port 401 heads and tear it up! Their "Interogator" or some other name police option was hands down the most powerful 1972 cop package available. "One Adam-12, come in please"
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Old 09-20-2006, 09:26 AM
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I crossed into the world of AMC and went to an AMC parts site last night and it is a 360 AMC from a 87 GW. Good job guys! It is going to be given to me, I just haven't seen it. The guy claimed it was a perf build, but I will wait to measurethe lobes, and check it out to be sure. That would go real well in my bud's 72 Javelin. He offered me a 68 Charger sans motor (original 440 car and I have 2!) in swap for a good 360 AMC if I could find one. I may be in the game now. :-) PCRMike
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Old 09-20-2006, 05:48 PM
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Some days you just get lucky...

Friend of mine has a spare 360 Matador engine in his rumpus room. I know... I sleep in that room when I stay at his house. Stare at it wondering what the tranny is.
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Old 09-20-2006, 06:09 PM
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If it's an auto, it is a TorqCommand, same as a TorqueFlite, both made by Mother Mopar. :-)PCRmike
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Everyone needs at least one engine inside their house---adds character and is a conversation piece when the preacher comes visiting.

I know of one guy in Nashville that has two Offenhausers in his living room. I guess if I owned two of them they would be in my living room too---right next to my cannon.
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.... but if you owned 2 cannons where would you put the offys?
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Old 09-20-2006, 09:35 PM
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Are you sure, Mike?

I think he told me that the one in the car has a different pan to the one on the spare engine.

As for the Offies, yeah, inside is right. And the wife can go if she complains. Let's face it, they usually end up going anyway. No taste at all...
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if I owned two of them they would be in my living room too---right next to my cannon.
If the North ever invades again, you'll be ready, right?
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Old 09-21-2006, 12:00 AM
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Everyone needs at least one engine inside their house---adds character and is a conversation piece when the preacher comes visiting.

I know of one guy in Nashville that has two Offenhausers in his living room. .
Ha! I bought my steel crank 318 from a guy and hauled it out of his bedroom closet! My buddy has a Dual quad tunnel ram with Holleys and an Enderle scoop as his dining room table centerpiece, Also has a Plastic 426 with real valve covers under a glass table top as a coffee table and the front half of a Harley chopper coming out of his bedroom wall, a REAL motorhead.
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Old 09-21-2006, 01:05 AM
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I must admit the cannon barrel is only 24 inches long---not full size. But, if I had another cannon plus two Offy engines---I would just add on to the room.

Years ago, I had a lighted globe gas pump on the patio. Then, the darn things got popular and now everybody has a gas pump around the house. My next toy on my do list is to build a full size civil war cannon for the front yard. Hopefully, that won't start a trend. But then again, if I had a neighbor with one, we could exchange a few rounds occasionally.

The civil war cannon will have to do. I was an artillery officer in the Army but not a field artillery officer, I was really trained in air defense missiles. So a Nike Ajax, Nike Hercules or Nike Zeus would really be more appropriate. But sadly, I don't think the FAA (or now Homeland Security) would allow a full size 28-38 foot tall air defense missile standing up in the front yard. They really don't have a sense of humor anymore.
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I don't think the FAA (or now Homeland Security) would allow a full size 28-38 foot tall air defense missile standing up in the front yard. They really don't have a sense of humor anymore.
Build a wooden replica and see who comes knocking.
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Old 09-21-2006, 08:38 AM
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That is a thought---but what would I do for excitement on July 4th?
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Set fire to it?
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Old 09-21-2006, 05:17 PM
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Put it on top of your Winnebago like a soviet missile tractor. Ghallager did that in one of his skits. Pretty funny looking. The local bar I go to has a poster about the Nike Ajax (?) missile, it says "Nike missile battery, on the attack!" Kinda funny considering its a defensive weapon. that was a big a$$ missile!
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Old 09-21-2006, 06:07 PM
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The Ajax was the first of the anti-aircraft missles, two stage, convential warhead. Then the Hercules came out, two stage, convential or nuclear, anti-aircraft or surface to surface. The Zeus was only operational in one location and was an anti-missile missile. The Zeus was one bad dude---but the US/Soviet anti-missile treaty killed that one.

There were lots of Nike Batteries in the Northeast operated by both regular US Army and state National Guard units. They were declared obsolete in the 70s and removed from service(in the US). They remained deployed in S. Korea and W. Germany until the late 70s. All that stuff is probably in storage in N. Mexico along with the captured V-1 and V-2 German rockets(WWII)(along with lots of other stuff).
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Old 09-21-2006, 06:20 PM
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So if we wake up one morning and find that New Mexico is just one huge hole in the ground, rapidly filling with overflow from a dozen rivers, then we'll know what happened?
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Old 09-21-2006, 06:31 PM
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It will probably be "ocean front property". And California will be---somewhere!
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Old 09-21-2006, 07:09 PM
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This sanborn's son. Careful when you push his "talk" button. If you push it twice by mistake, you will probably hear more about the subject than you want to know!
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Old 09-21-2006, 07:52 PM
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No wonder you live in Tennessee then!

Did he show you how to build race Mopar engines yet?
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Old 09-21-2006, 11:53 PM
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See the kind of abuse I must take---from my own family too!

Yes, we live in the quiet state of Tennessee. Quaint too! At night it has an wierd "glow" about ---especially around Oak Ridge.

Jeff has been assembling our race engines since he was 16( he is 31 now) and actually building our engines for the past five or six years. What is even better---he gets to pay for them now!!
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Old 09-22-2006, 05:15 AM
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Nice thought there sanborn... wish I could get my son to do something...

But he's in Indiana. You know what that means, don't you?
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Old 09-22-2006, 07:49 AM
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No, maybe I am dense----What do it mean to be in Indiana?
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Nice thought there sanborn... wish I could get my son to do something...

But he's in Indiana. You know what that means, don't you?
It means he's still putting up with everyone asking him " Who's your daddy?" You know Sanborn, Indy being the Hoosier state.:jackbox:
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GROAN. That was bad.

As for kids helping, my 10-year old daughter dipped and installed the lifters and pushrods, rocker arm assemblies on a 360 last night, and torqued them all down. She figured out which bolts to use on the heads, but I still had to torque them. My 6-year old helped me install a timing set on it, and put in the spark plugs, as well as scrubbing on the timing cover, er, sorry, Dick, TIMMING cover in the diesel vat and the intake got painted by my other 10-year old daughter (twins) along with the headers. They are wanting to learn, so I am teaching them little by little. Makes ya proud, don't it Sanborn? :-)PCRMike
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