Thanks Scooter, that's great to hear you're running a nice little small-small block. 7,500RPM shift points sure do sound nice to me... from your experience with these high revvers do they require more maintainence than you're average smallblocks from winding them out so much or are they fairly hassle-free?

Out of curiosity what's your Nova run in the 1/4? Have you dyno'd your set up, or do you have a rough HP estimate? I'm just trying to get a general idea of how much I am going to be able to make given a certain budget on certain parts. I may pick your brain about cranks/rods/cams/heads/everything if it's no bother!

Thanks as well Chevyboy. Yep, the plan is for this to sit in a Fiero. I too have heard of a 406 in a Fiero, I'm impressed that the driver had it down to such a science, lighting up the back end in such a little car with that kind of torque should be as easy as breathing on the throttle, even with the superb weight transfer of a mid-rear car. I bet it was a quick one! If you're considering destroking, you're LT1 should work fine, any 4" bore blocks can be shortened up to 302s as long as the crank will work out.

Tech: thanks for the parts numbers and the journal tip, I thought it was the later years that the journal fit properly, I guess I must have read the right info somewhere. If I don't find such a vintage type crank from parts departments I always have the option of running a regular 283 crank like Scooter.