What do you think guys.... 71 AMC Javelin....

[Brads70]

Always takes longer than you think it will.
Today's progress.....

I made stand off's over the torque boxes  for a future roll cage  if I decide on one?
I also moved the seat belt mounting hole back about 2" as I always seem to need to move the seats back to get comfortable..... back seat will be useless as with most muscle cars of this era .  I might not even put it back in, haven't decided yet?

[YellowThumper]

Nice...
Yes the old school legroom is always too short.

[RUNCHARGER]

That's true, and Donahue didn't take a carload with him.

[YellowThumper]

No back seat?
Just be prepared for the endless answering that it is not an AMX.

[Brads70]

Engine assembly is going pretty good!  Should be finished by next week. A long time buddy owns a shop that builds mainly race engines. He wasn't really to fond of AMC's but he said since it was  me  he would help me out. He gave me a shopping list , so I did all the leg work and he does most of the assy for me.

[IRON MAN]

I wish you a lot of luck with a guy who is not fond of AMCs.

[Brads70]

I wish you a lot of luck with a guy who is not fond of AMCs.

  He has built a lot of them over the years, what he hates is finding parts for hard to find engines. He likes me because I source my own stuff and custom machine what ever I can't find or need to modify. With this one being a hyd roller it needed some type of thrust plate/bearing. I came up with a Chevy thrust plate, machined the timing gear sprocket to accept the Chevy plate. Took a few hours to machine everything up and minutes to assemble. He likes that sort of thing.  On my 455 Buick engine I made my own roller rockers so they were adjustable. Assembled it once , worked great. He often gets me to machine stuff for him. We have known each other for like 30 years now. He is a good friend too!  This is the third engine he has helped me out with. Good guy to know!  Today we were talking and he said he built his first engine in 1964..... that was before I was born! Bit of a local legend in these parts, built a ton of circle track engines over the years!

[Brads70]

Work is picking up for me again, so having trouble finding time for the engine assembly. Cylinder heads should be done next week, valves ground, head machined, I did a little pocket porting, nothing to crazy just smoothed things out after machining. Picture of the custom ground hyd roller cam card I had made.

[IRON MAN]

Not a whole lot a machinist ca do to improve 401 heads. I Gave the former cylinder head foreman at Valley Head Service, North Ridge, Ca.  the go ahead to do the "Full Monte" to my 401 Cylinder heads. When I picked the heads up he said AMC did a great job engineering the heads and their wasn't much more he could do. Still, with new valves, seals, springs, machining, etc. it wasn't cheap.

[Chryco Psycho]

I can see places for some porting gains

[IRON MAN]

Yeah....I see it too. My machinist relieved that area.

[gzig5]

I can see places for some porting gains

OK, squeel!

I'm trying to learn as much as I can. 

[Chryco Psycho]

OK where the valve guide is you need to shape a trough arround the guide to direct flow around the guides then narrow the guide into a wing shape rounded on the front & tapered to a knife edge past the guide so it reverses on the intake port & exhaust port

[blown motor]

Is this to improve flow to or from the opposite side of the port?

[Chryco Psycho]

it will improve flow & speed air flow around the guide on both the intake & exhaust side done properly