Hot Rod builds a stroker 300

[pcmenten]

Hi Jim. The Chevy spider was close, but as you can see in the picture it is slightly wider than what would be perfect. I was heading in the direction of taking two Buick 3800 6 cylinder spiders and splicing them, using bolts, to come up with a 8 cylinder spider.

I admire the guts of someone who welds spring steel. I thought that might be impractical. I was making plans to overlap the ends of two spiders, removing the two extra fingers on the ends of each one (making two spiders, each holding down four pairs of lifers), leaving sections that would overlap.

Another approach might be to simply make two 4 cylinder spiders by cutting down two 3800 spiders, or splitting one Chevy spider, and bolting them to a rail that runs front-to-back through the lifter valley. The Chevy spiders could be used if they are cut in half and then grinding the outsides of the fingers slightly to clear lifters.

[mgb260]

I like the idea of a piece of channel (rail)full length with tabs bent up and bolted to tapped holes in front and back of block. Drill and  weld two flanged nuts in channel to bolt spider down. Paul, you should check out the Caddy 4.9 spyder, might be perfect.