360 Parts/Acc - hard to find?

There's no trouble finding parts. You'll likely have to find another donor to get all the brackets and accessories though.

I think there are a lot of worn-out 360s out there. They tend to suffer from low hot idle oil pressure at high miles. The oil pump turns in the timing cover, and wear causes excess clearance and low OP. They also seem to to experience cam bearing failure pretty often. The low OP leads to rod bearing failure and the end of the engine, typically.

Hard to tell if you have a good one or not with all those parts missing.

Certainly a modern SBC with native TPI will get much better mileage than the 360. Getting decent mileage from a Waggy means a SBC/TPI swap or diesel conversion. The 360 was never known for great efficiency.

 

Also - they can make good power. The heads flow well, and the engine responds well to a hotter cam and better intake/carburetion. The 4350 is a good off-road carburetor, but the spread-bore pattern is unique. The factory exhaust manifolds are good for iron manifolds.

Looking at your list of missing parts, all that stuff is available from the parts store.

 

I am rebuilding a 360 now, all hard parts were available thrugh O'rileys or Summit.
Edelbrock intake and balancer were found on E-Bay no problem. Maching costs are the same for AMC or SBC.

 

I'm building a 401 and the parts are easy to find. Yes, a little more expensive but the AMC v8's are great motors. So is the Chevy.

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