Re: If you were to build a bb stroker engine?????????????
[Re: FastmOp]
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11/23/12 04:32 PM
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Hey your the Super Series guy! Lol. Won it in 09? Dave, I built a 500ci >400 using all 440 source parts. Parts were great. Company was easy to deal with. Very happy with the build. I put the engine in my 67 Belvedere on Caltracs, 30x9 radials and I wasn't impressed. Way to much low end. The car was a monster if it hooked. But the 2nd you had to run behind street or at a marginal track it would blow a tenth off in 60ft. Tube chassis or 4 link it's the perfect engine. I'd try a 451 or 470 if you want stroke. Flat tappet cam and a good set of heads. Top end and mph win races not cubic inch. I found out the hard way. But I still have the engine and it should make the 68 4 link Cuda I'm building an easy 9sec ride
1967 Plymouth Belvedere II 383 1968 Plymouth Barracuda 383 2005 Ram 3500 5.9Diesel 1979 Dodge Power Wagon 360
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Re: If you were to build a bb stroker engine?????????????
[Re: Belvedere500ci]
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11/23/12 05:08 PM
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AndyF
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Hey your the Super Series guy! Lol. Won it in 09? Dave, I built a 500ci >400 using all 440 source parts. Parts were great. Company was easy to deal with. Very happy with the build. I put the engine in my 67 Belvedere on Caltracs, 30x9 radials and I wasn't impressed. Way to much low end. The car was a monster if it hooked. But the 2nd you had to run behind street or at a marginal track it would blow a tenth off in 60ft. Tube chassis or 4 link it's the perfect engine. I'd try a 451 or 470 if you want stroke. Flat tappet cam and a good set of heads. Top end and mph win races not cubic inch. I found out the hard way. But I still have the engine and it should make the 68 4 link Cuda I'm building an easy 9sec ride
You should be able to fix that issue with gearing. A 500 incher will pull pretty good with higher gears.
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Re: If you were to build a bb stroker engine?????????????
[Re: AndyF]
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11/23/12 05:43 PM
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Re: If you were to build a bb stroker engine?????????????
[Re: 65racer]
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11/24/12 12:28 AM
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This is not a street driver, this is for my race car, I am just looking into another avenue in case the block I have at the shop is not going to cut it.
I am not looking to rotate the world or anything like that, just want something that will be consistent, and require very little maintenance, as in trouble free, something to race every weekend, not something I am going to have to live with in the shop all the time.
I have the book, and have read it through several times, but am still undecided, but I am leaning toward the 470" combo, I have gone as quick as 6.80's with the 383 engine in the car, with a flat tappet cam, steel heads, nothing really special, but this was with machine work by a guy who really knew what he was doing, but he passed away a couple of years ago, and since then I have had to go else where for machine work, and not everyone knows the real tricks of engine machining, I learnt a long time ago that there is a big difference between someone who knows what needs to be done to make an engine fast, and someone who knows just how to do machine work, the same combination is in the car as when he was doing my machine work, but it's not the same work, the car has been consistently slow, by about 2 tenths, and I can't get it to run any faster, so I am leaning toward building something with a little more horsepower, so maybe it will pick it back up et wise, that's what I am really after,
So thanks for the replies, gonna have to decide what I am gonna do pretty soon, but that depends on what my wallet will stand, I race on a budget, always have and always will, for 40+ years, and the car has to pay for itself, I guess I am lucky in that respect, as I have always been able to keep my ego in check, and not let it get the best of me, and have always and I mean always have been able to show a little profit at seasons end, since I have been racing, not braging about it or nothing like that, I just watch my bottom line real close.
Thanks Dave
this is what I was going to ask as I to am in the same position thank you
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