1972 Chevy Truck on 2040-cars

 I am listing my 1972 Chevy C10 for sale. This truck is restorable and needs some body work. I am a machinist by trade, so I machined and built a custom 400 small block Chevy engine for a street performance vehicle. My intentions were to restore the truck, but due to my divorce I had to install this engine in the truck to get it on the road and out of her driveway. This engine is a bit much for this truck but it has worked out well and this thing moves!

The base of the engine is a highly sought after 2 bolt 509 casting, small block 400 that has a higher nickel content than other 400's. It is bored and honed .030." The cylinder heads are Brodix aluminum castings that I ported, drilled the proper steam holes, milled, and put a performance valve job on before assembling. They are 187cc volume intake runners after the port work and flow well. ARP head bolts clamp the heads to the block. Comp Cams roller valve springs, retainers, locators, locks, guide plates, pushrods, etc.  The camshaft is an Erson custom billet hydraulic roller with 228/236 @ .050" and has .540" lift. I got the upgraded option that has a pressed on and pinned steel gear for the distributor ($75 extra.) No bronze or expensive composite gear required. The lifters are of the highest quality, Morel hydraulic rollers. This company (Morel) builds lifters for the top fuel cars and they make the best available today. They are over $600 a set. The timing chain is a 9 keyway billet true roller with a bronze wear plate and a roller cam button. The timing cover is a reinforced steel version to limit cam walk. Crower stainless steel 1.5 ratio full roller rocker arms. Edlebrock EPS intake manifold, 670 cfm 4 barrel Holley Avenger truck carburetor, MSD HEI Street fire distributor and wires, and NGK plugs round out the top end. It also has a new water pump, alternator, and starter. This truck has the power steering option and it works great. The crankshaft was magnafluxed, turned 10/10 on the rods and mains, knife-edged, balanced, has Clevite bearings and is retained by ARP main studs. The Pioneer 8" balancer is also a new and is for an external balance set up. I magnafluxed, balanced, polished, and reconditioned a set of 5.7 small block rods with ARP bolts. Pistons are Keith Black dished hypereutectics and total seal rings that I filed to fit the bores properly. Oiling is with a Melling M55HV high volume/high pressure pump, a heavy duty pump shaft, and has a ARP pump stud holding it in place. A Milodon steel pickup with Milodon 7qt low profile oil pan. I have done two oil changes to this truck because I have only put 780 miles on it since I installed this motor in August 2013. I have only used Brad Penn green oil in it and Fram HP4 racing filters. I have the compression ratio set at 9.7:1 for a pump gas friendly set up. If someone wanted to bracket race this engine, it would be a great candidate. The parts in this engine are overkill for a street rod and I did that so it would be a durable power plant. I have over $5000 in parts in this engine and I have receipts for most of it. With the labor of building, machining and porting a custom engine like this it would cost in the $7-8000 range through a shop. Probably more after they mark up the parts. You have to keep in mind this is not thrown together. These parts were a hand picked proven combination by a professional and blueprinted accordingly. I did not dyno this engine but I have used similar combinations before and depending on compression, they have made 450hp+ and over 500ft lbs of torque on pump gas all day long. It has ample piston to valve clearance and I set it up this way so the heads could be milled more in case I wanted to push this thing to the edge.

It is also lowered with Hotchkis springs and shocks. 2 1/2" in the front and 3" in the rear to give it an even stance. There is a larger sway bar on the front with urethane parts. The truck handles well. New front disk brakes and rotors, wheel bearings, ball joints, tie rods, idler arm, and center link. Shifting the gears is a turbo 350 and a 12 bolt truck rear-end out back. Dual exhaust all the way back and it has the stock truck manifolds that I port matched to the heads as well.

I have many extras to go along with it. Including a Harwood fiberglass show series 3" cowl, bolt on hood and the lightweight springs for it, I have extra door glass for both doors, 4 extra vent windows, another instrument panel cluster, and some other miscellaneous items. All of the gauges work and it has a tachometer that is not stock as well. Everything works on this truck like the blinkers, lights, wipers, heat, etc. The interior is in pretty good shape and the bucket seats are very comfortable. This truck was originally optioned with the 350 4 barrel set up.

The truck is rough but has potential. The gem is the 400 small block and the truck essentially comes with it. I don't have the time or patience to do the body work at this time. So I'm parting ways with it.

I require the buyer to handle all shipping costs and for the truck to be paid in full before the title and vehicle are exchanged. 

WINNING BIDDER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PICK UP/SHIPPING, TRUCK IS SOLD AS IS WHERE IS WITH NO WARRANTY.