Hello everyone welcome to Speedway Motors Tech Talk I'm Joe,
this is Darrian, and today is an exciting day because the new engine for your
comet is right here in this box. Do you want to tell us what it is?
Yep, so this is a small-block Ford 302 motor from blueprint engines. It's kind
of their base dressed motor. It puts out about 230 horsepower, about 320
foot-pounds of torque. Super basic, not a huge camshaft or anything like that. Nothing
too powerful, but for as light as my car is, I really don't need a whole lot.
Right. We want to make sure and pull out all your warranty information, all the
dyno information and everything the blueprint provides right in the envelope.
That's amazing. This has the water pump and the carb and the distributor,
everything. This even has plug wires on it. Is this what you were expecting?
Yeah, from the pictures on our website we show pretty much as it comes.
Actually, surprisingly on their listing we've stated that it came with plain
belt covers but they must have thrown in the chrome ones so that's always a bonus
Your lucky day. This has the warranty information. Do you know what carb this is?
This is a 600 CFM Holley. Just like a 41 60 series. Definitely
more than enough to supply this engine for sure. So this is ready to go. The distributor
is installed and tightened down. You know the blueprint is careful to spell out
what they want you to do for a break-in. Yeah I mean they walk
through a quick break-in procedure. I guess all the blueprint motors that come
with an oil pan on them have been dyno’d already before they ever leave their factory
So does that mean that you don't have to break in the Cam?
With these units, since they are dyno'd, they break in the cam before they ever ship them out so you
don't have to worry about it. But they don't discourage customers going through
through their own cam break-in procedure. It's definitely not going to hurt anything by any means.
And they want you to run break-in oil in it anyway just to be sure
So any good break-in oil would work for this application.
Blueprint obviously makes their own that works really well but comp cams and
other manufactures do us well anything like that will work. This is actually the
dyno sheet for this motor. Once again, it's not any big powerhouse by any means
but I'm looking here, and it looks like a made peak torque at about 3500 rpm. We're
looking at 327 foot-pounds of torque and around 4,300. It made peak horsepower at
at 238, which once again, will be way more than enough for this engine. And your car
weighs like what 2800 pounds? Yeah 2,900 is what it's built at for curb weight with
a V8 installed. So what year Comet? 62. It's going to be cool. Yeah I'm pretty
excited to get it in and get it going. You know, honestly, I didn't expect this to be
this together. I expected the water pump to be in a box off to the side, and
the carburetor and the distributor. This is kind of amazing. Yeah, I mean it really
does come a lot more together than what I was even expecting. You put it
perfectly. The carburetor already comes mounted to and everything set up there.
Looks like they already have the distributor locked in and checked
already. Water pump’s on, fuel pump’s on. You know I'm kind of like you. I kind of
figured everything would be in different boxes and
and have to kind of assemble it here. Even comes with spark plug wire separators,
to try to organize the spark plugs. There’s no water neck on it, no thermostat, but
otherwise this thing is pretty darn close to ready to run. You’re going to
send us burn out videos when you get it in the car right?Oh for sure. Okay, well
thanks for sharing. This is kind of a special day for you, thanks for sharing
with us and thanks to everybody for watching.