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Adrians 66 GTO

  • This upper Oil Galley Plug.  You can see the plug has been removed.  I bet if you were to double check your machine shop you would find them not removing this plug.  I have found gril half a little finger big hidden behind these plugs.

    • This upper Oil Galley Plug. You can see the plug has been r…
  • Here you go.  One quick shot of the Piston tops and the Fel Pro head gaskets.  You got to love the Square Decked Block and the Pistons.

    • Here you go. One quick shot of the Piston tops and the Fel…
  • Adrian went to a company back East for the first set of Pistons.  They could not find a 389 Piston so they sold him a set of 400 Std pistons.  Then they cut a whole hell of a lot of metal out of them to lower the compression.  That is what saved his bl...

    • Adrian went to a company back East for the first set of Pist…
  • Here is an example of a correct set of heads done correctly.  I could see daylight thru one set of valve seats on the old ones that came off.  I wonder if they really care at machine shops.

    • Here is an example of a correct set of heads done correctly.…
  • The deck surface of the heads was cut down a lttle.  The Exhaust side of the heads was Welded and then Angle Milled to straighten up the "Sealing Area"

    • The deck surface of the heads was cut down a lttle. The Exh…
  • I yanked out the old Press in Rocker Arm Studs and Drilled and tapped the holes for Screw Ins.  It is a pain in the Ass and the Studs are not readilly available.  I ultimately had to go with 421 studs and cut off 5/8ths from the top.

    • I yanked out the old Press in Rocker Arm Studs and Drilled a…
  • The beginning of the part number being cast into the outside of the valve cover area.  You can hardly tell that these are 093 Heads.  At first I thought they were not.

    • The beginning of the part number being cast into the outside…
  • To tell you the rest of the story these heads were like the Bermuda Triangle heads.  They were some in between Engineering exercise.  They had old school design and later new school modification all under one head.  The Part Numbers were in and out.  T...

    • To tell you the rest of the story these heads were like the…
  • They had this poor Excuse of a part number cast into the end ports.  I have seen this part number cast into the center two exhaust ports.  Big and Huge 1/2 inch tall numbers 093.

    • They had this poor Excuse of a part number cast into the end…