440 in a 68-72 GM A body.
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06/20/12 06:33 PM
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See attached pic I found a while back and let me know if you recognize whose headers were used. TTI?
I race two brands and I've about had it trying to keep main bearings in brand B's engine but I got the car all dialed in for mid tens and street legal so I'm considering going Mopar powered in it. I have a BBM to TH400 adapter bellhousing and elephants ears, rear sump pan are easy. The headers are the pain.
And no it's not a Chevelle.
Thanks
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1967 Coronet, 1989 Daytona tube chassis.
Former cars, 66 Charger, 67 R/T, 69 Coronet, 67 Dart GT.
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Re: 440 in a 68-72 GM A body.
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I've thrown all the tricks at the oiling system. I'm using a setup similar to a Milodon external pick up, halo girdled, 3-point main oiling, etc, etc. It has big mains at 3.25 which are hard to oil and the block is so thin that even filled with concrete I think it flex's too much. It's a shame cause the cores are cheap and you can run mid 11's pretty cheap and easy. Any faster and the oiling problems rear their ugly head.
I really want to keep the car because I've been racing it for 15 years. I'm comfortable in it and I've got the chassis sorted out. If it wasn't for the main bearing oiling it'd be great, runs mid 10's, street legal and idles at 800 rpm. Scott Brown did the heads and the cam.
If do the conversion I hope to find a set of headers where I may just have to modify a tube or two on each side and not have to build a set from scratch.
1967 Coronet, 1989 Daytona tube chassis.
Former cars, 66 Charger, 67 R/T, 69 Coronet, 67 Dart GT.
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Re: 440 in a 68-72 GM A body.
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06/21/12 08:18 AM
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I've thrown all the tricks at the oiling system. I'm using a setup similar to a Milodon external pick up, halo girdled, 3-point main oiling, etc, etc. It has big mains at 3.25 which are hard to oil and the block is so thin that even filled with concrete I think it flex's too much. It's a shame cause the cores are cheap and you can run mid 11's pretty cheap and easy. Any faster and the oiling problems rear their ugly head.
I really want to keep the car because I've been racing it for 15 years. I'm comfortable in it and I've got the chassis sorted out. If it wasn't for the main bearing oiling it'd be great, runs mid 10's, street legal and idles at 800 rpm. Scott Brown did the heads and the cam.
If do the conversion I hope to find a set of headers where I may just have to modify a tube or two on each side and not have to build a set from scratch.
could you try a set of A-body fenderwells? Those GM's have a ton of inner-fender you can trim out.
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Re: 440 in a 68-72 GM A body.
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Aftermarket block? I have a buddy that picked up an aluminum buick block and was going to twin turbo it for land speed racing. Block didn't look bad, but it was a first casting and some oil pan bolts were in the wrong places. If I remember correctly it cost enough you could probably build a complete "something else" and still have some left over. It did have priority main oiling and I think it also ran a smaller main journal.
I think I know who you're talking about. It was going in a Riv wasn't it. The aluminum blocks I've seen are nice. They come in stock and race versions. The stock version doesn't really fix the oiling issue, the race block is 50% more than a KB and add in the custom crank, cam, etc and it's stupid expensive. Besides that I have some issues with the guy who makes them.
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Former cars, 66 Charger, 67 R/T, 69 Coronet, 67 Dart GT.
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Re: 440 in a 68-72 GM A body.
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06/23/12 11:39 PM
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I know my 2" super comps have different bends to them than the ones shown.
The ones shown also appear to have thicker flanges than super comps but that might be an illusion.
Maybe the car in the pic has one of the smaller tube sizes like 1 and 7/8.
These are b body 2" super comps FWIW....
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