Blake, I checked out your page. Your engine bay looks great. I like the valve covers, gold paint/trim and the clean factory look of the Heat vent AC delete system. I like and kept my AC but yours looks so much better than most painted flat plate with a jegs sticker jobs. Looks better and cleaner than AC to just not as cool. (inside the car!) Looking at the rest of your car I am surprised you didn't upgrade the 200-4r and keep that. I am sure interstate cruising rpm & mileage suck with 3.73s but then again its not the main use of the car, you can always trailer it, and the th400 is cheap easy and bulletproof. What cam & compression and head work and have you ever taken her down to ye ole test & tune to see where she is at?
New guy with new 84 Hurst/Olds in Lansing Michigan
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Vern, thanks for the kind words. I did have to make some notches in the heater box to clear the heads and valve covers. I do still have the 200-4r for someday down the line, but the cost of building it to handle the torque was 3 times what my bulletproof th400 cost. Yes, mileage does suck, and she buzzes about 3 grand down the freeway. The nice part is I was able to keep my same crossmember and driveshaft, so I can always pop it back in when I have more money to burn and build it up right.Vern said:
The compression ratio is 10 to 1. It has Olds C heads with 2.07 and 1.91 valves. The heat riser ports are filled with iron plugs that come with the edelbrock intake, and the small relief between the two middle exhaust ports has been filled, other than that they are stock, no porting or polishing as of yet. I figured I could dig into that someday when I wanted to squeeze a little more out of it. The Holley 850 is a tad too fat for it, so it needs to be jetted down a bit.
I was planning on taking it to the track next weekend, but I still need a posi carrier, tires, and some other odds and ends to make it worth going that I can't afford at the moment and don't really want to put on my credit card, so I don't know if I'll get the chance to make it this year. But we'll see... There's still some time to pull the trigger and I have this week off to work on it if I decide to take the plunge. I'm anticipating somewhere in the mid to maybe low 12 second range. It pulls hard on the street, thats for sure, I'm dying to see what it'll do at the track.
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watch for my square body dually(white) sitting out front about a mile north of beaver road(intercetion with McDonals) what day you going though?
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Blake, Here is what I have learned. Don't worry about time slips yet ie don't worry about the posi tires etc. All you want at this point is your mph to see where you are at power wise. You can wittle down your time slip later as you acquire the parts. This way you have a baseline for both improvements in time slips and carb adjustments ie power with future mph improvements. Lots of people have a "project" car for years and never get it to the track because they mistakenly think they need to have everything right first but the truth is their is no such thing.
You raise a good point, although either way I don't have any money, so I guess it'll have to wait a little while longer. But don't worry, it'll get on the strip as soon as I can get it there, even though our short minnesota summer is already starting to dwindle down... 🙁
Since I have too many projects to distract me, I've been trying to get my cutlass wagon up and running before it gets cold and kind of putting the 442 on the back burner for a bit while I take care of that...
Since I have too many projects to distract me, I've been trying to get my cutlass wagon up and running before it gets cold and kind of putting the 442 on the back burner for a bit while I take care of that...
Test & tune here is about $15 run all night. Cheap fun. Chew up rice, pick up trucks, station wagons, grocery getters, trailered race cars that have not been run in fornever and run like dog doo and few that run like they belong their. 🙂
Ugh, you don't have to rub it in! For me the track is 125 miles north in Brainerd, and I have no hitch on my truck, although finally having a truck to tow it with is a start... Man I wish we had a track in the cities still...
Sorry our track is only 40 miles away. I don't have a truck or trailer either which is in part why had the the 200-4r rebuilt.
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