Originally posted by riverhorse59
Some of the most consistant answers I've ever seen here. All very good answers that You should strongly consider their advice. Rod selection is good. Think forged pistons!! Id rather have a cheap set of forge than the best set of Hyper pistons. This is more of a question to the other guys here than a statment. Have any of you had or heard of much failure problems with a stock 400 cast crank? I know of several that have been using it with no problem. I used the stock crank twice in 2 hard hitting 406s,but they were street--strip combination motors built on a budget.
Thats I can only imagine how that must sound at full song!! Ideally I would love to use all forged internals, but I'm on a pretty tight budget. I only work part time because I'm still in school so $300 to me is huge. The car would see the street more often than the track, maybe a weekend or two out of the year I'd take her to a local road course or a strip. The camshaft I was thinking about using was one of those Comp Cams that swaps cylinder 4 and 7 in the firing order. Comp says by doing this it helps to relieve some stress on the crank in addition to making a little more hp.