Is the 3595 with or without the 200lbs of ballast?

What does it run without the ballast?

Any pics of the intake/carbs?

I’d suggest seeing if you could borrow something like a 440-3 and a dominator so you’d really know how much that intake & carbs are costing you.

9’s??

Sell your short block, build a bigger one.

700 hp should be enough to get you into the low 10's or maybe high 9's if everything else is perfect. You can make 700 hp with that long block but you're going to need to get rid of the Mod Man intake. If you need to run dual carbs for NSS then you might have an issue. There aren't a lot of dual quad manifolds for MW heads that work all that great. I'd suggest putting a ported Super Victor on there with a good 1050 carb and see how fast you can go then try to figure out if you want to go fast or if you want to look cool. There are some guys going fast with the Indy bathtub intake so you might ask them what their combo is. I think they usually have much larger engines. I've run the bathtub a few times and they work better than an old cross ram, but they still aren't great. Indy didn't even provide a gasket between the top and bottom half. Maybe they've fixed that by now?

If you are going to do all the work to update the rear suspension, skip the ladder bars and go right to the 4 link.

Andy. Is that cam capable of producing 700hp?

Andy. Is that cam capable of producing 700hp?

If you're serious about running 9's then you should pull that engine out this winter and put it on a dyno. Buy or borrow a good intake and carb so you can run a comparison. I bet that the Wilson ported intake that I was using on my engine would pick up 50 hp over your current intake. But you aren't going to know it until you do some back to back tests.

If you are going to do all the work to update the rear suspension, skip the ladder bars and go right to the 4 link.

Brent Wheller runs a 500"with a ModMan. I believe it has run 9.50,5". My N/ss car runs 9.25 on ladder bars very effectivly.
Doug

Sounds like a good idea. A couple of days on the dyno swapping intakes will give you a good baseline to work from. I have a customer with a similar car and engine combo to what you have and he runs high 9's. The biggest difference is he has a ported Super Victor intake and he is at 3400 lbs on the starting line.