Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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Well, this year is almost in the books, got one more race this weekend, but my bracket car is out for the season....And as usual, we went thru some parts, figured some stuff out, and just wished it had all come together at least at one of the races this year.
I really thought last weekend was it. The car was running awesome. The driver was dead on the tree, and it was looking promising in record good air. But it was not to be. Seems I got bit by everything at least once this year. From tow vehicle issues to you name it. Last week,the no oil pressure light came on just as I hit the return road on a good pass. Checked a couple things, and it looks like I didn't hurt anything, but the engine has to come out for a mild freshen up.
So with that said, I was really hoping for 6.0's or better this year out of our new 400/512...We are just under 11:1 and have EZ1 heads and a .680 roller cam. A Thumper 1050 dominator, and basically just a port match on everything...Its a nothing fancy bracket engine, but we had opted for the light weight crank option. Figured 6lbs off the rotating assembly should have been worth somthing...
What would you guys change? Go with better heads, or send these out?
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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Well, this year is almost in the books, got one more race this weekend, but my bracket car is out for the season....And as usual, we went thru some parts, figured some stuff out, and just wished it had all come together at least at one of the races this year.
I really thought last weekend was it. The car was running awesome. The driver was dead on the tree, and it was looking promising in record good air. But it was not to be. Seems I got bit by everything at least once this year. From tow vehicle issues to you name it. Last week,the no oil pressure light came on just as I hit the return road on a good pass. Checked a couple things, and it looks like I didn't hurt anything, but the engine has to come out for a mild freshen up.
So with that said, I was really hoping for 6.0's or better this year out of our new 400/512...We are just under 11:1 and have EZ1 heads and a .680 roller cam. A Thumper 1050 dominator, and basically just a port match on everything...Its a nothing fancy bracket engine, but we had opted for the light weight crank option. Figured 6lbs off the rotating assembly should have been worth somthing...
What would you guys change? Go with better heads, or send these out? Well how fast have you gone....... and how fast do you wanna go?
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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Car went the quickest with the old 440/512 same heads and cam and carb. It went 6.13 at 111.9...The current based 400/512 has gone 6.17 at 110.8....60fts are real good with either. We are in the 1.35 range...
Car weighs 2920 with me in it.
Looking to go 5.95 at 113 or so...We had talked about going -1 heads with the 400 as it allowed a little extra room in the engine bay. Or maybe having Modern port them and maybe the intake as well.
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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10/02/18 08:24 AM
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Doing a few calcs and it looks like you need around another 60fwhp to go 5.90's, current 618>678, your 60's are good so not a great deal to be done there. As you said send them to Modern and see if you can get them to the 345cfm mark with some intake mods, not sure what they flow ootb though, 310?.....should be enough.
Different set up, but I went from 11.2@118.6 with stock 906's to 10.7@125 in the 1/4 with just a pair of BV 906's around 260cfm bolted on in a 3300lb 440ci car with a .650 solid cam.
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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I think a full port job on your heads and intake should get you there. Maybe a set of 1.6 rockers if needed. Maybe consider an 1150 billet main body, too.
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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10/02/18 10:44 AM
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I'd have the heads and manifold ported. Talk to Dwayne Porter.
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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10/02/18 11:28 AM
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To me the 60 foot is kinda soft for a car at that weight running that ET. That translates to mid 9’s easily in the 1/4, to me could easily be 1.30ish. I guess i compare it to 3350 pound S/S spring equipped car i had that ran 6.20’s/ 30’s typically and the same 60 foot. Lots heavier...... and slower. Making the heads better will obviously help, the 60 will too.
69 Dart GTS A4 Silver All steel, flat factory hood, 3360race weight 418 BPE factory replacement headed stroker, 565 lift solid cam, footbrake street/strip car Best so far, 10.32 1/4 1.41 best 60 foot 6.56 at 104.17
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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You could go small block and get where you want easily at that weight. A good 4 inch indy headed small block should run 5’s easily. Even a W5 deal would. Plus you would be shedding more weight
69 Dart GTS A4 Silver All steel, flat factory hood, 3360race weight 418 BPE factory replacement headed stroker, 565 lift solid cam, footbrake street/strip car Best so far, 10.32 1/4 1.41 best 60 foot 6.56 at 104.17
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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Are those EZ heads M.W. size or 440 port size? If 440 size have them enlarge to M.W. size I saw 50 HP gain on my old pump gas 518 C.I. Duster motor by switching from a set of Indy SR with M.W. size intake ports that flowed 340 CFM at .700 to a set of MCH CNC ported 440-1 that flowed 370 CF @ .700 with every other parts the same Switching the same heads onto my 526 RB higher compression ratio dyno test mule motor with a little bigger camshaft made 65 more HP than with the same set of SR heads, same compression ratio with both motors due to the CC being 76.0 on both sets of heads Both motors wanted more air and fuel, the single 1050 CFM Dominator carb was not enough carb. on either motor with the 400-3 or the 440-3 intakes More air and fuel equals more power
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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Small block W anything is really not in my future. I do however have a brand new set of G3 heads here all ported, but still looking for a 6.1 block. I might just bite the bullet and get the aluminum one if my tax return is any good.
The heads I have are the MW port size already. My thoughts are between the EZ295-325 & -1's at the moment. Mine flowed 327 at .600 and fell off after that. I run a .680 lift cam.
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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Obviously, the -1’s would be the hardest of those three to outgrow.
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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Obviously, the -1’s would be the hardest of those three to outgrow. And, from what I understand, EZ295s wouldn't be much of an improvement over some basic hand porting to the OPs current EZ1s.
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And so the upgrades are starting to come together...Heads will stay the same for now...My next build is hopefully a procharger motor...
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Re: Dragula's Quest for the 5's....on Pump Gas
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And so the upgrades are starting to come together...Heads will stay the same for now...My next build is hopefully a procharger motor... You're leaving a significant amount of power on the table by not spending any money on the heads. I guess I don't understand what your goal is, since it seems to have changed from the original post.
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