All most there with Barnco Bob's engine swap & other upgrades

Found a lil' problem in the fact that his stock starter had no chance of cranking the 2387 monster motor. A new "high torque" replacement starter is now on the way for us to get this thing going soon.
Thanks go to Michael Beaucage for the photos!

Ernie, I always wanted to build a garage just like yours. All I had to do was remove the living room off my house to get the extra room outside. Then I told my wife about that idea . . . you can guess how that discussion went . . .

Cool looking engine! Good luck!

man that's a really nice garage you have there......for a moment, it looked like an aircraft hanger out of the middle east.......I dunno what I like more, the garage or the engine.

Ernie.
I must have missed a few posts! Didn't you just put in a 2110 from CB Perfomance?
Troy http://speedster.hopto.org

troy, i cancelled my CB order. i was told 3 months, turned into 4 months and still no build date so i spent my $ elsewhere. time will tell if i did the right thing.

Hey Troy....
I put the CB motor in my car (the one on the right) last winter. It now has 6500 trouble free miles on it. Bob's car (on the left) is about ready to be started with the new Bergman motor.
BTW, that's quite a slide show that you produced!

Troy -

I just noticed in your car pics that you have the side-curtains in the opposite doors. The side-curtain pictured on the passenger-side of the car should be on the driver-side and vice-versa.

...I'm just saying, but you may have already figured this out!

Ernie.
I'd love to take credit for the Utube videos, but they were done by the EuroSunday people.

Jim.
I was wondering if I had them in backwards, but they just didn't seem to fit right when I switched them around. I'll try it again....NEXT WINTER.

That's quite a motor! Was it dyno-ed?

Barnco rides again!
Today it happened! The "geezers out in the garage" finally got it right. The thing started right up after we took every engine protection measure known to man. Seems that we had a faulty VDO oil pressure gage sending unit plus lack of info from Bergman about his oil pump priming procedure. Then there was the hi torque starter delay issue.
This 2387 is equipped with hydraulic lifters. All new to both of us....
It made a heck of a noise on the right side until it had been run for about 20 minutes. As it turns out, the lifters are very quiet after they're pumped up. (I'm jealous: no valve adjusting for Bob).
Our very exciting road test went just fine: it sounds great and has plenty of power, even while taking it pretty easy on the country roads around my place.
It's all good!

what an ordeal.
ernies a nam marine and im a nam sailor. i actually taught a marine something...he can cuss with the best of us sailors.
thank you ernie..what an experience that was.

Ernie - what a relief to get that engine installed and fired-up with no issues! Coool!

See you guys in Morro Bay - I'm looking forward to checking out that engine!

Peace - Out!

Bob, At 3 months you decided you wanted a different type of cylinder head. You were made fully aware after this about the delays of this new port. Our CNC shop took the entire month off to get ready for the PRI show in Florida. The sad thing is the day you cancalled the engine order, the heads were being boxed and loaded for shipment to CB. I told you I could have your engine done that week and you refused. That's fine, If someone doesn't want to have the patients for a qaulity engine, so be it. I bet Bernie told you his dyno was broken or not installed yet, right? That's the reason he couldn't pre run your engine. Thats what he has been telling people for the last twenty years. 86 stroke in a mag case on the street. That case is going to be cracked to hell in about 10K miles. I'm sure you were not made aware of that when he sold it to you. Hope everything works out and you don't have any issues.