Recent content by nebraskamonte

It is carbed, I ended up replacing the plug with a delco and checked out the crimp on the wire, it appears it was never properly crimped. i re-crimped it and threw it all back together and she ran fine..I'm guessing it was the wire. Thanks for the help though. Wish i had the money to go sfi.

compression was 131 on cylinder #5.

Ended up getting pretty sick so i wasn't able to touch it until today. checked manifold temp and #5 was only at 91 degrees. pulled the plug and it was black. dead misfire on cylinder 5. I checked the plug wire and the crimp was not the greatest. re crimped the wire, tried it, misfire is still...

Went out to start the turbo Monte as i do every couple of weeks. Only this time it was missing pretty bad. Constant misfire that seems worse under load. I have taken no action yet as I'm a dealer tech and time off is valuable. I'm bringing it to the shop tomorrow to dig around and see whats...

Glad to see there are other turbo Monte owners here. I feared I was a black sheep in the community.

You guys think these holes could be repaired? That's my main concern. I was impressed with how the heads cleaned up. So if i'm able to salvage the block, I'll be a happy man. Also I've seen the chrome carb hats before, but this guy appeared to chrome quite a bit from this motor. Were chrome...

just rusted out. The guy said he bought a regal new in 78. Didn't like the lack of power took the v6 out in 1980 and disassembled it to see if something was wrong. bought new pistons and rings and gaskets for it and ended up going a different route. Built a 350 and just let the v6 sit in a barn...

I just bought a complete 78 231 turbo motor from a friend for $180. Turns out the block is bad (not even upset at that price). My question here is do i need to find another 78 turbo block, or will a N/A block work?