Hollis leaves out the fact we were gaining 6HP per 100 RPM at 7300 so...we should have turned it more but..we had a choice..keep jetting and turning more or whip out our secret weapon ( that went untested until our last dyno pull) the single 4 tunnel ram---Rules limited us to one 4150 carb any production manifold--we had the engine built and ready to go when we saw a tunnel ram at the Nats and went ..HUUMMM....maybe the extra volume would be of help? We had 6 minutes of dyno time left out of 45 allowed for all runs and tuning and decided to throw a Hail Marry with our Tunnel Ram--looking back we should have just jetted and turned it harder but oh well...we had them scared for a minute! You should have seen the faces when we pulled that intake out of the box! It was a fun moment--Hoping for maybe 10 more HP we were surprised when it actually fell off on HP--It went so lean on the end cylinders it turned the headers cherry red as seen in the Mopar Muscle Mags videos--watch close and you will see them glow at the end of the pull. Hats off to 8500 RPM!!!--we planned to turn ours as hard as it would take to win but in the end decided we would rather have a unit to sell and take home in one piece --we had a ball--made some great new friends and really enjoyed the entire experience! And..We have a HOSS of a 406 for sale that is in EXCELLENT condition as shown after tear down--our piston skirts and bearings looked out of the box perfect! Ours was such a simple build ....NO tricks...just really perfect machine work by HP Engines, a great cam design by Hollis and our pals at Bullet Cams and a fantastic set of Edelbrocks hand ported by Hollis who missed more than one of his kids ball games while getting them JUST RIGHT! When all of the details come out it will be great reading---it was HP per CI with a $5500 cap on hard parts. You could read between the lines and spend a zillion dollars on coatings, vacuum pumps, etc etc but we decided to go with the spirit of the rules and do one like we would for a guy walking in the door. HATS OFF to Tedder for having the guts( and $$) to do what we planned on doing..Great effort. LeRoy and his gang were real MOPAR guys to the bone, we were really impressed with their spirit and sportsmanship! I have to say...everyone we met there was Top Notch in every way and it was an honor to be in that company!
