Brian
Atleast you now have the story!!!
I agree..no compression is no compression. No amount of clean up will
help that
I would say be happy with the FP31. I did pick up on one thing you
said,,,the fellow still has the FP31 heads??
My P318 has standard heads( but atleast everything else looks to be
correct) would he want to sell them
ED
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Wittling
To: goldenfin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:13 PM
Subject: [GFS] musical motors
Well, I just got off the phone with the guy I bought my Fury from...
It is definately NOT the original motor.. :-(
Apparently in 1971 or so, his dad was driving the car and threw a
rod - sound familiar? So they got this motor - strangely enough out
of another '58 Fury that had thrown a rod! So this motor had somehow
made its way from a '57 to a '58 and then into another '58 all by
1971. He wasn't even sure it was a Fury motor, but only suspected it
was. When he got it, it had a 2-barrel style car distributor in it,
and a funky manifold of some kind. When it was installed in my '58,
he swapped over to the correct distributor, and swapped the intake
manifold and carbs over from the original motor to this one. Says he
stil has the heads to the original motor to mine, but the block and
other parts are long-gone.
He thinks this motor only has about 86,000 miles on it, and he put
less than 1,000 miles on the car from 1971-2001 when i bought it. He
said even in 1971 when he swapped the intakes, it was so sludged up
it was unreal. He thinks a lot of my smoke problems is because under
the valves covers is all sludged up probably, and probably the return
galleys are plugged up good. Doesn't change the fact that I got very
little compression though...
So, that's the story... Still going to send off to Chrysler
Historical though..
Brian
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