The snowball effect Charger

I have had several people ask me about an engine I built for a customer last year. It was a 440 budget build that I did using Edelbrock heads and a Hughes Whiplash cam.
After tuning it made pretty impressive numbers.
I ended up building a 727 and spec'd a convertor also.
After delivery of the engine and trans package,my customer had his engine bay soda blasted and then the project came to a halt.
I recently picked up the car along with the rest of his parts to put his car back together .
Here is a before shot of the engine bay.

Keith

The 440 during its freshening and top end package

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Freshly painted engine bay,....

Keith

Since people have been asking how my customer liked his engine when it was back in the car, and it has been over a year I decided to help him out and get it back on the road.
We will have it at the strip this spring , seeing how well it outperforms the old iron headed MP 484 cam. Swill have to get an old timeslip from him but I believe his best pass was a 14.25 before

I will be posting some more progress over the next couple of days.
Keith

Looks good, u do nice work.

Is that a custom piece, or a purchased motorplate??

Looks like a March serpentine belt bracket.

-Daty

Yes,its a March Performance serpentine drive plate
Keith

Lookin' good Bro!! If he ever gets caught in a rain storm with that it will be a bear to clean!!

Man what a nice change looks fantastic.





Now what about some dyno numbers!???? :-)

Here are a couple pulls dialing it in,....

Keith

And horsepower,....

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A little Firecore50 action,....

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One more,...

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That settles it! I need to send my engine to Keith this year, then send him the car the following year!

Fabbed up mounts for the aluminum radiator and added the customers stainless hoses

Keith

While fitting the exhaust to the new TTI headers, I got rid of someone's attempt at installing cutouts. 3" pipe with 2 1/2" cutouts wedged in and welded before.

Keith

And add some 02 sensor bungs in case any future upgrades warrant retuning.

Keith