Yeah so in the final hour when i'm getting ready to start putting the rebuild into motion, i decide to ride with my friend over to this guys house who is retiring from racing and selling everything he's got.
30 minutes and 1000$ later i'm buying a motor off him lol. It's a 355 bored .30 over, Mechanical flat tap cam with .540 lift, not sure of the duration off hand, i'll have a full specs run down soon. He did mention the crank and rods are stock specification, but the pistons are new, and it's got world SR torquer heads and awhole bunch of other goodies.
They ran it for a few races, with a two barrel carb it produced 425 at the crank, 400 to the wheels. I'm going to be running my Holley 4b 650, and my mallory HEI. My best gues is i'm going to be working with around 420+ to the wheels.
Because of teh nature of this particular cam, and the fact that i don't want to dissasemble a perfectly running motor just to step the cam down, I'm going to run a vaccum canister for my power brakes, And i'm going to rebuild/ strengthen my rear end to handle the power, Any tips on the rear end??
Also, for my own sake, and for the sake of my drivetrain i'm considering putting a throttle limiter for now, this motor is built to run at 7000 RPM's without complaining, but my cars not ready for that yet, and i'm not trying to break things So thats why im considering a throttle limiter for the time being untill shes ready.
My transmissions a beast already, 700R4 with a few tricksu p its sleve, and it's got less than 3000 miles since the rebuild. And as far as i know, it wasen't rebuilt because something broke, it was just rebuilt to perform better.
Other than that i think i've got everything covered, can anybody think of anything im not brainstorming?
Almost forgot, upgraded to an aluminium 4 core radiator, and a pretty sizley Transmission cooler a few months back.
Oh and i've got a standard stall TC, i don't really want a high stall TC because this car is also my daily.
30 minutes and 1000$ later i'm buying a motor off him lol. It's a 355 bored .30 over, Mechanical flat tap cam with .540 lift, not sure of the duration off hand, i'll have a full specs run down soon. He did mention the crank and rods are stock specification, but the pistons are new, and it's got world SR torquer heads and awhole bunch of other goodies.
They ran it for a few races, with a two barrel carb it produced 425 at the crank, 400 to the wheels. I'm going to be running my Holley 4b 650, and my mallory HEI. My best gues is i'm going to be working with around 420+ to the wheels.
Because of teh nature of this particular cam, and the fact that i don't want to dissasemble a perfectly running motor just to step the cam down, I'm going to run a vaccum canister for my power brakes, And i'm going to rebuild/ strengthen my rear end to handle the power, Any tips on the rear end??
Also, for my own sake, and for the sake of my drivetrain i'm considering putting a throttle limiter for now, this motor is built to run at 7000 RPM's without complaining, but my cars not ready for that yet, and i'm not trying to break things So thats why im considering a throttle limiter for the time being untill shes ready.
My transmissions a beast already, 700R4 with a few tricksu p its sleve, and it's got less than 3000 miles since the rebuild. And as far as i know, it wasen't rebuilt because something broke, it was just rebuilt to perform better.
Other than that i think i've got everything covered, can anybody think of anything im not brainstorming?
Almost forgot, upgraded to an aluminium 4 core radiator, and a pretty sizley Transmission cooler a few months back.
Oh and i've got a standard stall TC, i don't really want a high stall TC because this car is also my daily.