Good to know and thank you for the offer! We'll keep you in our back pocket if the need/opportunity comes up!

Took a little bit of engineering and a little bit of after hours work but in the long run makes things much much faster!

Thanks Terry always glad to have another member of the SRC family stopping by and checking out what we do! Glad you enjoyed and maybe even learned a thing or two.

We're fans of QJets in these parts! Especially on a car this original and unique, gotta keep it looking the part AND behaving right! Thanks for appreciating what we do!

Front feed QJ, no less!

I concur, the Qjet, properly set up, is a wonderful street carb... and using the stock metal fuel line is quality anti-vice grip garage professionalism.

Thanks Captain Rick, that's the main reason we even started a KZfaq channel in the first place is to share progress and challenges with our customers. It just so happens that other folks like to see it too :) Thanks for being here and watching!

Thanks Terry, believe us we're ALL looking forward to this project getting finished up! High time this bird flies home!

Thank you, and thanks for watching!

Thank you! Glad folks are interested in what we do in the shop!

That's going to be a regular part of the process with engine run stand break ins here. Sacrificing a few sets of valve covers across the various models so we can make sure everything is good and healthy.

Thanks for always being here and supporting us in our adventures Coop!

Totally agree about one of those fancy PRW run stands, maybe Santa will bring him one if he's a good boy the rest of the year!

Your pain is my solace... please leave all the Pontiac engines left for me!!

Yessir! That's EXACTLY why we prefer to do our engine break ins either on a dyno or on an engine run stand! Did you do a rope seal in yours? Fortunately our 455 in the yellow LeMans has been pretty much flawless aside from killing mechanical fuel pumps

We're hoping it was just a fluke and we're on the good side now, going to check a few things after the break in to see how it truly went. Fingers crossed. We actually have 2 Pontiac 350 builds coming up, one is already torn down and waiting the other is... just waiting ;)

Nice tip!

Definitely a good tip! Surprisingly this thing didn't do any hopping and skipping around but we're always interested in "out of the normal" solutions!

Hard to beat a well built Poncho! We have our 455 LeMans that has been pretty much flawless other than mechanical fuel pump failures, and 2 350 Ponchos sitting around here waiting for their turns. One of which should be pretty fun and interesting so stay tuned! ;)

@@LucoreAuto will do... That was my first complete rebuild of an engine... I'm pretty impressed with myself. 😆,,,, I was just a 20 something year old kid back then... I'm my garage... But it has been a great engine... Never a problem with it.. it sets around,, I get in it and she fire's right up like a champ every time... Idk what the problems are with all these cam lifter failure's now days.. I never considered brake in oil. rpm.. cam break in.. I knew nothing about all that back then.. I just got it running and drove it... Raced it . For going on over 26 year's now I think.. no zinc additive.. just castrol 10/40... All its life.. from break in .to today.. stock 350 crank ,,rods . In 400 block.. 406 ci.... .30 over Forged pistons.. nice cam n 6 x worked head's.. old torquer single plan.. 750 race series carburetor.. roller rockers... A good running engine... Looking forward to more poncho stuff... See ya in the next great episode. From Lucore Auto👍😎💯

Thanks glad you liked it!

Unfortunately NO ONE had Pontiac cams like we were looking for in stock, everything was "ground when ordered" and 2-3 weeks out :(

Thank you and thanks for watching!

Hopefully yours goes right the FIRST time and you don't end up going down the nightmare tunnel of camshaft failure that we did on this one! One and done is the way to go! The engine was previously painted this color when we got to it so while we had it out just refreshed the paint in the same coloring. We always are happy to keep our Ponchos Poncho blue!

Hydraulic flat cam lifters do pump up. Oil pressure pumps them up. Old school technology. Dont over think it

Solid lifters don't pump up. They require maintenance and lashing the valves. They are more for high reving engines. Hydraulic flat tappet lifters regulate lash with oil pressure and self adjust for valve Train Wear. But in high rpm range they can pump up and "float" the valves.

Ya... what these guys said! Good question though thanks for being engaged and thanks to the community for being on top of the response!

Well you see, what had happened was... The green Capri you are correct is very close to being a driver. Needs a few things, buttoned up, and needs to get some sort of trunk floor fixing done then it's ready to putter around. The 2.8 V6 is... sitting on an engine stand in a bag with a pile of parts just waiting on it's turn. Customer stuff comes first so with us being as busy as we have been that project is off the burners at the moment... probably not even on a hot plate unfortunately :(

I get it. Making money and keeping the doors open comes first. @@LucoreAuto

Factory nuts, factory rockers. Not sure what you are hearing? Especially after the failure of the first camshaft we're trying to be extra extra sensitive to sounds or issues?

@@LucoreAuto I stopped using them factory nuts decades ago. Poly Locks are to cheap not to use and they say put every time you set preload on Hyd or clearance on Solid lifters. They made a believer out of me, and they fit right under the factory 400 valve covers.