Last month I bought a 400ci engine to use in the ’65 300 convertible. I wanted the get the car running again for the upcomming two-yearly checkup and to enjoy a few trips with the car this summer.
The engine was still bone stock with unbored cylinders and even had the factory steel headgaskets under the heads in place.
Cylinder wear was remarkably low so I decided to leave the cylinders as is and just install a new oilpump, a set of ‘915’ closed chamber heads, new cambearings, timinggear set and a slightly hotter cam than stock. I spend some time on the oilpump by portmatching, cleaning and chamfering the ports internally and to the engine block. I did similar oilpump-work some time ago, in this article.
