Brand New 308 For Sale

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For Sale: 308 that was a crate motor that was still in the crate since '56. We completely stripped it down, went through everything, and installed a modern gasket set with the good timing cover seal.  This motor will fit in 48-54's. Standard crank/bore. The blocks are highly desired due to better valve relief to add better flow, and inhibit cracking of the valve seats. We upgraded the timing chain to a 21st Century True Roller and installed a 254 .372 solid cam. Installed 3 piece oil ring for better oil control. Factory Aluminum Head was Jet Coated. This engine has NEVER been in a car. $5300 with no intake/exhaust, distributer, and carb. Will include crank adapter. $5800 with 2 barrel intake, carb, electronic distributer (6 or 12V), and test fired/tuned on a run stand. Randy Maas maasfh@centurylink.net 309 267 6158

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Motor is sold. Test fired it this evening and sounds strong. Video on HET facebook or Het fan club page.

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http://www.facebook.com/steve.maas.12/videos/1288110097876463/ 

GrimGreaser

That is pretty dang cool. Thanks for sharing Randy.

T_Kelly_Lee

I'm super late to this party but could you give a few details about the story with this engine? Rare find like this are always fascinating to me!

ski4life65

Unfortunately, Randy passed away recently, so probably not going to get the story. I was there when his son bought the engine at a National meet in Colorado from Gary Steinberg. It was still strapped to the original shipping crate. I tried to buy it but Russ was faster with the cash....

T_Kelly_Lee

ski4life65 said:

Unfortunately, Randy passed away recently, so probably not going to get the story. I was there when his son bought the engine at a National meet in Colorado from Gary Steinberg. It was still strapped to the original shipping crate. I tried to buy it but Russ was faster with the cash....

ski4life65 said:

Unfortunately, Randy passed away recently, so probably not going to get the story. I was there when his son bought the engine at a National meet in Colorado from Gary Steinberg. It was still strapped to the original shipping crate. I tried to buy it but Russ was faster with the cash....

Very cool. I saw a pic recently of a JC Whitney ad selling Hornet engines. Was it something like this do you think?

Glowplug

From my website... crate engines like this were JC Whitney  via Hudson 

50C8DAN

Sorry to hear about Randy did not know he had passed.  When I first joined the club back in the mid 80s he used to bring his drag car to some of the national meets. When he started it up it really made a racket!

BTW I bought the aluminum head that Randy took off that engine.