Not attacking you at all!!! Now all these guys know what you have to work with and now can help you within your budget and time frame. One last bit of advice. Spend money where you need to to get this car to the track.No more!!! Get to the track as often as you can and have fun. Then when you get to the ripe age of 21 and have a job you can add to what you have. Thats if you don't have a girl friend

The thing that gets me is yes I would like an engine to turn less rpm and be easier on parts but I don't want the engine to be a 10.0 engine because the car itself won't make it there the way it is now. It might be good for 10.40-10.50's and that's if we get everything we have now set right. Anything past this I can't see happening without getting a way better suspension then what we got!

You know what maybe I should just forget about the roller lifters and roller cam. Just get a set of crane gold roller rockers. Run my 557 or 590 purple shaft. I can always go to a 1.6 rocker and make the cam I have now bigger! Build a 416 stroker I have a 750 cfm carb I can use for now and later upgrade to a 850 or 950. I have a set of headers but they are just to far out there to run. I'll build another set. Do very little work to heads and intake. Get some 4.56 gears for the car and new shocks and run her. Does this sound 10 second worthy and on a budget? I am only looking for mid 10's at best.

So you can either put less camshaft in it, short shift, pull timing, limit throttle or do many other things. Its really easy to slow a car down if you need to.

Heres what I would do if I was you;

408-416"
10:1 compression
Scat rotating assembly
Camshaft around [Email]250@.050[/Email] 550 lift
Your W2's cleaned up with springs to match the cam
Your intake
750 carb is plenty
a GOOD 8" converter ~5000 stall

Gear/ tire it so you cross the stripe just a touch higher than where you shift.

That combo will go high 10's at 2800# with EASE, and live for years. It will also run on pump gas which will save you money and allow you to race more often. You don't need 12:1 compression and you don't need or want to turn 7000+ if you don't have to.

That's my opinion, I'm a 26 year old kid who has been racing since I got my license. I have raced on a tight budget and have been in your shoes before. I'm a bracket racer and put 200-300 runs a year on my car, so I've learned what it takes to get the job done.

I like this combination. I am glad you know where I am coming from! The purple shaft cam that I have is either a 252 at .050 or 265 at .050. Depending on the lift of the cam wether it's the 557 which has the 252 or the 590 which has the 265. This cam I have is in very reasonable condition and if it wouldn't be to bad for this combo I would love to use it! Getting heads and intake to match the cam and getting the right springs won't be a problem! I like the fact of saving money and being out more often running the pump gas! I really can't put up a grand for a new converter so there is 2 options there. Have the converter reworked if I have the extra money or just run it the way it is. It's a tci 10" 4000 stall. The tire is a 29.5x10.5 hoosier.