Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: 401 cranks cast & forged was: headers

I have A friend that built the engine in his 74 amx using a forged 290 crank and a 360 block. Was built many yrs ago. Still runs great today.

There were a set of forged 290 rods for sale not long ago on the Amc forum. Can't remember which forum though

Davis.

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On Apr 30, 2011, at 8:33 AM, "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe that is what I was thinking of the IH/AMC differences or similiarities. The forged steel cranks and rods were all made at the Holmes Foundry in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.

AMC literally 'ran out' of 360s in 1974 due to several factor, one was that AMC asked for and got, a extension to take advantage of changing federal emissions laws, so while production began Aug 1st, 1973 and was supposed to end Jul 15th, 1974, it kept on until end of Nov 1974. I may add somewhere on my site it talks about all the oddies one will find with cars in that time frame, like my 74 304 Gremlin built end of Jul 74 was a 1975 color Jade green J7. Another car I have documented is Alpine White 74 AMX, could keep on here.

The other reason was AMC was spreading itself thin and selling lots of engines to International Harvester so IH could supplement thier own line of engines the 345 and 392, both sort of boat anchors like earlier AMC 287 and 327s....and Bricklin was also getting engines from aMC but when they started having issues with delivery, they switched to Ford engines, the rest is history.

Davis mentions: "Forged cranks could also be had back in the day for the 290 and 343 by special order. Group 19 parts. Just like forged rods for the 290 were available."

I asked this back in 1990s on one amc-list when it had something like 2500+ members. Has anyone ever SEEN these, that is, held them in hand and looked at casting number? I haven't and no one on that list years ago had ever seen them. The numbers are in the books,

http://www.planethoustonamx.com/main/group19.htm

(see 4th page) just no one, myself included have ever seen the rare beasts.

Eddie Stakes
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Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: headers

All the Amc 401 engines had forged rods and steel crank. IH did use a different 401 for a period. Buick maybe? The Amc 401 can also be found in IH scouts, travel all, busses, and various farm equip.