The block in the RoadRunner is just a production 440 block. Not sure what year it is, probably a late model block. The car is an original 383 car so numbers don't mean anything.

It appears the turquoise one pictured with a white background isn't the orange one installed the car.

I posted the picture of the Duster engine (turquoise) because someone asked about the alternator on that engine.

Got the car fired up the other day, it sounds really nasty. Manifold pressure at idle is 80 kPa so not much vacuum. The EFI system required some special tuning to work at that pressure but not a big problem.

Looks good.

It's getting closer.

Hello Andy , can you give a run down on the specs , HP & EFI components used . And any reason for going with that throttle body versus the 4500 super sniper . Different dist etc: I am wanting to change over to this set up & need info . Mine is drag only though , 700 HP auto . Thanks Gary

The engine has a Sniper XFlow on it which is good for 700+ hp. For a dedicated race car I'd probably use the 4500 version. I think the 4500 version would make more power on a 4500 type intake than the smaller XFlow that we used on this engine. Might not be a big difference but I wouldn't be surprised if it picked up 15 to 20 hp with the bigger intake and bigger throttle body.

You need to work with an experienced EFI person to sort out a Sniper on a race car. The Sniper software is designed for street use so a few things need to be tweaked to make it work on a race car. Not a big deal, an experienced EFI guy like Rich at FAST Man EFI can do it in 20 or 30 minutes. Rich is a good resource to work with if you want some help buying and tuning an EFI system for your race car.

Thanks Andy .

Start up video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNeBSOqpO40&lc=UgwDGpesISk_nuvKPF14AaABAg

Got it out in the sun for a few pictures.

Nice looking car.

Looking good Andy, nice work.

Love it.

Figured you would like this car. How is your car coming along? Still doing sheet metal work or did you get that part finished up?

I'm still on sheetmetal.

Left quarter + inner (new amd 3" wider) and outer wheelhouses are installed,
a little custom clearance work done to the lower front lip, entire trunk floor replaced/1 piece,
front fenders are replaced, reworked and ready for 320 blocking, hood is reworked/painted and ready to be installed,
right front inner fender replaced, the front inner fenders/underside prepped and painted black.

Last week I cut off the right quarter and am repairing everything behind it.

Thinking about doing a roof skin too...freshen up the whole exterior.

Lots of time spent making things fit.

I've been filling a memory card on an older device with tons of pics and rather raw video, it's been suggested to start a youtube channel, but need to go to school for editing etc or have somebody else do it.....I thought about starting a build thread here, but it kind of seems like talking to myself and there's not much participation here lately.

Forbbodiesonly has a little bit higher rate of participation, I do like that site (I'm Rich H. over there) but feel like I have more friends here, so I haven't taken the plunge. So for now I am just dumping most of it to a Fakebook album for FB friends to check out if they want, and to have a dump/free storage location in addition to the memory card.

Yeah, that is a huge amount of work to take on. Way more work than I'd ever be able to get done myself. I have a couple of buddies who are body guys and they do stuff like that all the time but I've never tackled it myself.

It's way more than I thought I would ever do.

A couple years ago I asked around, looking for someone to help with body repair.
The answers were either "no", or crazy high prices, or "come see me 2 hours up the road and we will talk".

Didn't care for any of that, so I didn't do anything about it.

Then Covid came along, work from home started, and what better time to chase some old pipe dreams.

Hope things are good with you and yours. Feel free to text me sometime, or something

You've added a ton of skills by tackling that project so that is cool.

Looking good Andy, and no doubt Rich has added a ton of skills doing it himself. Doing a fine job at that.

Here is a shot of the other side of the car. The paint is so shiny that it is a little tough getting a good picture. I need to shoot it on some artificial grass or something that doesn't reflect so much.