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The guys in Stock are well into the 10's with a stock stroke, stock heads, stock intake and carb, and stock lift. They are pretty close to your weight too.

Yes, I know that it's comparing apples and oranges, but a lot of their power comes from meticulous assembly and lots of little tricks.

I would think with the same care and better induction, heads, and camshaft you should be able to get close to the power they make without being ragged edge.

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Stock eliminator build, while trick, is still very limited head and induction wise, the two areas where not having such limits are helpful.
I am pretty positive what I want to do isn't that hard. 550 or so isn't that much steam with good heads and combination, even at 340 something inches. I don't want to spin this thing much past 7k either. Shouldn't have to either.

Maybe some skipped my reference couple of posts up to that 340/w9 build that broke 600 horse@ 7000 rpm. Dyno's are dyno's and would love to see what that motor ran in a car..... Buts the heads were supposedly barely touched and only went 280.
The heads I would use I think would likely be just as good, if not better.

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The down side to a W-9 deal is headers , intake and cooling system.
You need to be creative with two and lucky with the other.
I'd look at a Super Commando / Indybrock / Procomp kind of deal if you need aluminum or a W-2 if not.
10's is awfully ambitious , but not impossible.

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The down side to a W-9 deal is headers , intake and cooling system.
You need to be creative with two and lucky with the other.
I'd look at a Super Commando / Indybrock / Procomp kind of deal if you need aluminum or a W-2 if not.
10's is awfully ambitious , but not impossible.

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Good post!!

Remember Bondo just went 10.57 with the procomps( first outing) at 9.5 compression in a bench seat swinger. I know the 4 inch crank helps, but no more than3 or 4 tenths, with a relatively small head like that .And I wouldn't be at 9.5 compression either. so make up some power on that front.

Local racer( who sometimes posts on here) has a 340 with J heads and a flat tappet(3100 pound Duster) that has been 11.00's a number of times. His heads go I believe 251max. Ran teens at Norwalk. It's been together a few years now.

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The down side to a W-9 deal is headers , intake and cooling system.
You need to be creative with two and lucky with the other.
I'd look at a Super Commando / Indybrock / Procomp kind of deal if you need aluminum or a W-2 if not.
10's is awfully ambitious , but not impossible.

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Good post!!

Remember Bondo just went 10.57 with the procomps( first outing) at 9.5 compression in a bench seat swinger. I know the 4 inch crank helps, but no more than3 or 4 tenths, with a relatively small head like that .And I wouldn't be at 9.5 compression either. so make up some power on that front.

Local racer( who sometimes posts on here) has a 340 with J heads and a flat tappet(3100 pound Duster) that has been 11.00's a number of times. His heads go I believe 251max. Ran teens at Norwalk. It's been together a few years now.

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Sounds like you had your mind made up and nobody is going to tell you any different. Not sure why you asked for input ??

If you can gain 3-4 tenths with a 5-$600 crank...and have it be more streetable...why wouldn't you ??

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Yes... I do have my mind made up. That's why the title of my post said" ideas on how to make a stout STOCK stroke 340".
Instead most everyone keeps saying why not build a stroker instead of stock stroke.
I have had a number of strokers. Just want to do something different this time.
Doesn't appear many have tried this, I am interested to give it a shot.

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The down side to a W-9 deal is headers , intake and cooling system.
You need to be creative with two and lucky with the other.
I'd look at a Super Commando / Indybrock / Procomp kind of deal if you need aluminum or a W-2 if not.
10's is awfully ambitious , but not impossible.

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Good post!!

Remember Bondo just went 10.57 with the procomps( first outing) at 9.5 compression in a bench seat swinger. I know the 4 inch crank helps, but no more than3 or 4 tenths, with a relatively small head like that .And I wouldn't be at 9.5 compression either. so make up some power on that front.

Local racer( who sometimes posts on here) has a 340 with J heads and a flat tappet(3100 pound Duster) that has been 11.00's a number of times. His heads go I believe 251max. Ran teens at Norwalk. It's been together a few years now.

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Sounds like you had your mind made up and nobody is going to tell you any different. Not sure why you asked for input ??

If you can gain 3-4 tenths with a 5-$600 crank...and have it be more streetable...why wouldn't you ??

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Yes... I do have my mind made up. That's why the title of my post said" ideas on how to make a stout STOCK stroke 340".
Instead most everyone keeps saying why not build a stroker instead of stock stroke.
I have had a number of strokers. Just want to do something different this time.
Doesn't appear many have tried this, I am interested to give it a shot.

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i will repeat it,get some real good heads and you can do it, sawing money doing it with "stockstyle" heads is harder than needed and you will get a much better engine with better heads. look at any modern pushrod V8 and see how they make power,they do it with great heads and much milder cams than would be used in oldschool engines with heads that are crap by comparison and i dont care what cnc ported Procomps flow there is much better heads out there but they will cost you more in valvetrain

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The down side to a W-9 deal is headers , intake and cooling system.
You need to be creative with two and lucky with the other.
I'd look at a Super Commando / Indybrock / Procomp kind of deal if you need aluminum or a W-2 if not.
10's is awfully ambitious , but not impossible.

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Good post!!

Remember Bondo just went 10.57 with the procomps( first outing) at 9.5 compression in a bench seat swinger. I know the 4 inch crank helps, but no more than3 or 4 tenths, with a relatively small head like that .And I wouldn't be at 9.5 compression either. so make up some power on that front.

Local racer( who sometimes posts on here) has a 340 with J heads and a flat tappet(3100 pound Duster) that has been 11.00's a number of times. His heads go I believe 251max. Ran teens at Norwalk. It's been together a few years now.

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Sounds like you had your mind made up and nobody is going to tell you any different. Not sure why you asked for input ??

If you can gain 3-4 tenths with a 5-$600 crank...and have it be more streetable...why wouldn't you ??

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Yes... I do have my mind made up. That's why the title of my post said" ideas on how to make a stout STOCK stroke 340".
Instead most everyone keeps saying why not build a stroker instead of stock stroke.
I have had a number of strokers. Just want to do something different this time.
Doesn't appear many have tried this, I am interested to give it a shot.

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hi don.all i run in my cuda is factory stock stroke 340's.one of my combos is ported w2's flat top's at 10:1 comp solid street roller .550 lift [Email]242@.050.victor[/Email] w2 intake 800 thermoquad.17/8 hedman headers.low gearset 904 trans w 5000 stall 8 inch converter.4.86 83/4 rearend @ 3100lbs went a best of 10.39@ 127 mph.that thing sounds like a stock 340 @ idle with lots of vacuum but has torque like you wouldn't believe from a 340.very streetable.

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Wow mighty impressive combo. didn't know all your stuff was stock stroke, Rob.
What do you shift and trap at with that combo? How tall a tire?
Missed seeing you at Norwalk

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Put a big Block in it !

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