Gallery logo: Your photos on your web site

 

Album info

Random image

Bills 389 Tri Power

  • Here is where you will find the Factory Firing Order.  18436572 is the correct number.  If you forget you can just look on your manifold.  Under the carbs and not at any common sense location for reading

    • Here is where you will find the Factory Firing Order. 18436…
  • Now here is the all important date code.  Since this is a 65 GTO  it needs the correct items to increase it's value.  You can increase the price of your car 50% by having the correct engine.

    • Now here is the all important date code. Since this is a 65…
  • Ok here is the whole thing all mocked up.  Notice the Baby Blue Paint.  Ugly.  I must admit.  Not many people realize it but the paint is actually an electric motor paint from the 50's.

    • Ok here is the whole thing all mocked up. Notice the Baby B…
  • Here is the Heavy Duty Clutch plate and Velvetouch Clutch disk.  This ought to outlast the life of the car.  Unless he gets booted out by the old lady and has to drive his car to work.

    • Here is the Heavy Duty Clutch plate and Velvetouch Clutch di…
  • Although agressive and sure to lock up if abused this little gem will run 200,000 miles or so.  I have taken them out to find the fingers worn off the pressure plate and the clutch with life still left.

    • Although agressive and sure to lock up if abused this little…
  • This is my preferred timing device.  Although Bill's motor has a double roller timing chain I had wanted to install the Milodon Gear Drive.  Their instructions state "You have just purchased the Finest Gear Drive available, and with proper installation...

    • This is my preferred timing device. Although Bill's mo…
  • ARP Bolt Kit is the best thing for a good GTO Motor.  In the case of the Intake and the Bellhousing I utilized the Factory correct bolts.  In the other areas I went with the Pretty Chrome ones.

    • ARP Bolt Kit is the best thing for a good GTO Motor. In the…
  • Here you have a happy Pontiac 389.  It has just got outa the Engine Spa.  They just love to be "normalized and then Steel Shot".  It just takes all those years of heating and cooling outa the block.  Allows them to settle down back to the way they were.

    • Here you have a happy Pontiac 389. It has just got outa the…
  • Cleanliness is next to Godliness.  You have to keep the motor clean thru all the steps of assembly.  Little pockets of grit will destroy large amounts of cash money.

    • Cleanliness is next to Godliness. You have to keep the moto…