New Motor

As some of you may remember. My Kota's been rotting away in storage awaiting a new motor. The old one shattered the number three piston. Anyway, I was browsing though eBay and found a used 360 with 30,000 miles on the clock for $450. I snagged it right away, brought it home and have begun the tear down, clean up and re-assembly! Consider this my build thread!

When I brought it home.


Intake and valve covers off.


Passengers side head removed.


Completely decapitated.



Need to find a socket big enough to remove the center crank bolt before I can go any farther. Still need to remove the distributor and cam. Also need to flip her over and start to remove the internals.

My plans are to clean up then re-install the stock internals. I have a new cam from Comp Cams to install. .512/.512 210/220 HR 110 LSA with 4-degrees advance ground in. Edelbrock aluminum heads. Mopar M1 2bbl intake. 1.6 roller rockers and a yet to be determined billet throttle body.

Congrats, looking forward to watching this build.

Cool. Have fun with it.

Oh I am. The cam and head combo should give me a much needed power boost. As well as a nice sounding lope.

A mean lope? Like gonna die but comes back?

moaugust88 wrote:

A mean lope? Like gonna die but comes back?

It will be very similar to this.

https://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d112/2001AFRT/?action=view&current=c6bb835e.flv

Finally found some time where it wasn't 90+ degrees outside with 100% humidity and manage to finish tearing the motor down to the bare block. Its finally ready to be cleaned the reassembled. If anyone happens to be skilled enough to reassemble these things let me know. I'm willing to pay with generous amounts of beer and food!

Matt is the only one I know that could. He rebuilt his whole car after a flood.

^^^I agree...Matt is the only one I know of....Unless Joejoes pops might be able to help you out? Joey says hes a mechanic as well...

xegitalian19xx wrote:

^^^I agree...Matt is the only one I know of....Unless Joejoes pops might be able to help you out? Joey says hes a mechanic as well...

Im not a mechanic by any means, I have just been around cars and fixing them since i was little. But I would have no clue how to put his engine together....at least not correctly.

Those things with the flat tops that strongly resemble pistons go in those big holes on that real big piece connected to the stand.

HiPwr wrote:

Those things with the flat tops that strongly resemble pistons go in those big holes on that real big piece connected to the stand.

If only it were truly that simple.

I know I can assemble the top end no problem. The bottom end I'm not 100% sure about so I would rather leave it to someone who knows what they're doing and I can follow their lead.

Joey I worded that wrong. I wanted to say that you dad is a mechanic not you lol. Your are our electronics guru though