Thread: I'm kinda lost here...

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Hey, another 500 Cad fan! Smaller and lighter than a BBC, and torque like a tractor. Gotta love 'em! One of the magazines did a 500-'82 Camino years back, and took it to the strip. They had one hell of a time getting anyone to pull a good ET, they all just wooded it and giggled as they smoked 'em the full quarter. Speeds like 85 mph in a cloud of rubber smoke. I don't think they ever did get it to hook up.

Well, I understand where you are coming from about the 400. I already have a 400 that I paid $200 for. It is standard bore and will clean up at .020 which is good. Eventually I want to buy a dart block anyways when I have a little better financing. This particular 400 is just for me to have some fun for a little while until I either A) Move up to a big block or B) Buy a 400 Dart block. I'm not even going to spend a whole crap load of money on this motor. The way I break it down is kinda like this:

Block & Machine work: $200 plus $225 for deck/bore/dip/freeze plugs/cam bearings.

Pistons: Hypereutetic $200ish, I might be able to get a forged set from my machinist for around $250 so that's something to think about.

Crank: Cast Steel SCAT $203.00, I've asked about this and these cast steel cranks are supposed to be really good.

Rods: 5140 Steel "I" Beam with arp bolts for $180.00

Add that all up and I've got a pretty good shortblock complete for $1008 dollars give or take a few bucks. (if these prices look abnormally low, it's because I buy all my engine parts from a wholesale place out of Kansas City called Motorville/Star Performance)

I'm going to use my heads off the 350 that I had in the car (441 Castings), I'll buy a new intake manifold, I really like the Professional Products Crosswind Series Manifold. It's pretty cheap and it has some pretty good reviews on it.

As for the carburator, I'll be buying a Demon from motorville but I still need to figure out the CFM that I need and the type of carb that I need.

That's kind of the idea I had in mind, I'm not sure how realistic my goals are of a mid 7 1/8 miles are but I'm trying to break into the drag racing scene and the only way to do that is to try it out.

Well, I understand where you are coming from about the 400. I already have a 400 that I paid $200 for. It is standard bore and will clean up at .020 which is good. Eventually I want to buy a dart block anyways when I have a little better financing. This particular 400 is just for me to have some fun for a little while until I either A) Move up to a big block or B) Buy a 400 Dart block. I'm not even going to spend a whole crap load of money on this motor. The way I break it down is kinda like this:

Block & Machine work: $200 plus $225 for deck/bore/dip/freeze plugs/cam bearings.

Pistons: Hypereutetic $200ish, I might be able to get a forged set from my machinist for around $250 so that's something to think about.

Crank: Cast Steel SCAT $203.00, I've asked about this and these cast steel cranks are supposed to be really good.

Rods: 5140 Steel "I" Beam with arp bolts for $180.00

Add that all up and I've got a pretty good shortblock complete for $1008 dollars give or take a few bucks. (if these prices look abnormally low, it's because I buy all my engine parts from a wholesale place out of Kansas City called Motorville/Star Performance)

I'm going to use my heads off the 350 that I had in the car (441 Castings), I'll buy a new intake manifold, I really like the Professional Products Crosswind Series Manifold. It's pretty cheap and it has some pretty good reviews on it.

As for the carburator, I'll be buying a Demon from motorville but I still need to figure out the CFM that I need and the type of carb that I need.

That's kind of the idea I had in mind, I'm not sure how realistic my goals are of a mid 7 1/8 miles are but I'm trying to break into the drag racing scene and the only way to do that is to try it out.

Also, I was punching some numbers and came up with, and VE2000 agrees with me, that it will take about 545 HP at the flywheel to put me into the 7.5 second 1/8th mile which is a 11.7 1/4 mile

I looked into this combo a while back and if I remember right,it was more of a circle track motor.It would work ,but where the motor is comfortable making power was high.This was because of the stroke (destroke).Check into this before you invest.I wanted to put into my truck and this combo was not best to get it off the line.

"Stroke" that mother up to a 421
Have you checked WWW.SPEEDOMOTIVE.COM,they have some info on strokers.I have a few other links I'll post later for parts and info.

The 400 would be nasty with a 4 inch stroke in it huh? Hmmm, I hadn't thought about going the other way with the 400 and ADDING displacement. That's definitely something to think about. If i wanted to get stupid with this motor I could do forged 4 inch stroke crank, forged flat tops, forged rods, a big nasty flat tappet camshaft... Hmmmm! We'll see, I have a little while to think about it because I'm going to spend the summer saving my money and slowly getting the car ready for a new motor. This way once I've saved all summer long I'll have a good financial starting point. I apologize if anyone feels that I've wasted their time talking about this, but sometimes you need to talk about something to understand why it is a good idea or a bad idea. Thanks