I'm new, and this is just going to be me catching you up on what's been done to my 86 442, and what's to come. I bought the car for $800 after it sat under a tree for 3 years, ripped out the 307 and the 200r4, to replace it with a 350 out of a 77 with a mild wolverine cam, dual edelbrock 750s, and an offenhauser dual quad 360 intake manifold, I made an adapter plate for a built 700r4, and I took the 3.73 ring and pinion out and put in a richmond 4.11 with an eaton locker put it all in and drove it for a few months until that 700r4 decided it didn't want to deal with the olds torque and commited suicide. After that I decided to rip everything out and start over, it gets all torn apart, and recieves clevite pistons, a comp cams extreme energy cam, h-beam rods, headwork, and another brand new trans... that lasted 3 months, now I'm on 700r4 number 3 and its getting yanked out again to get replaced with a t-56, I also put the 3.73s back in because launching is not an issue when you make torque. Now I'm looking to buy another one of the exact same block to put the 442 into its final form, a fuel injected twin turbo sbo mounted to a 6 speed manual, follow the build because this isn't your average grandmas olds. P.s. I'm sure I'm leaving out a bunch, but what's most important is what's ahead.
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If you're looking at making big numbers with an SBO, ditch the 77 350, the windowed main webs won't survive. Get yourself a pre 76 block (68-71 are the best), or if you can find one, a 350 D or DX diesel block will hold 1000+ HP on the stock bottom end.
Any reason for not going 2004R originally? Pre 77 blocks are cheap and plentiful, I picked up a great running 76 350 for $120. The only windowed block worth buildiing is the 403, IMHO.
The 700 is more common and has more parts readily available, plus the 700s i got for a good price and i like the 3.06 first gear ratio. And again, the block i have is a 77 and it does have the solid main webs
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