Thread: What kind of power expectations?

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Carb seems big.Did you only grind down the rods that were hitting?IMO after grinding those down ,all of the rods (all 8) should of been lightened to match your lightest one.

Yea i went ahead and ground down every single one, figured it would make sense. They are vortec castings, with lt1 beehive style valvesprings, lt4 retainers, and upgraded valves I believe. Scoggin dickey sells them, ill try to find the link and post it. I was told they are one of the best, cost effective heads on the market. BTW I went for the slightly larger carb, 700 was recommended, because I will most likely be using a 100/125 wet shot. I intend to run an electric pump through a seperate fuel line to use with the spray, so i did some research, and 800 seems to be the mainstream as far as that size motor with round about power levels have, and a small shot of spray. I took the basis from here, http://www.carcraft.com/techarticles/81998/ , except I went with quite a few better parts, mainly in the shorblock area, and upped it with a stroker crank, to make a little more torque and drop it down in the powerband. As I said, it is my father doing the main fo the work, teaching me as we go along, but I was set to do as much research as possible, and put together a combo that works. I added arp main studs, hypeuratic pistons over the cast, a cast steel crank, forged rods, perfect circle moly rings, clevite 77 p series bearings, and a slew of some other slightly different parts from that build. Hope ti all works out, the long block was just buttoned up today, intake and carb is this weekend, just have to order ignition adn exhuast. Most likely going with a DUI distributor, seems liek teh best bet, but pretty expensive. Other choice would be an msd hei, I already have the wires, so after that its exhaust and Im done for now