Quote Originally Posted by DennyW
Sounds like your on the right track.
Thank you. I've been getting some help from the guys over at another forum, along with a garage I was working at up until this school year so I really can't claim all credit.

Quote Originally Posted by monkeyfkker
Trash it and get a real car! lol... j/k

I like the 383 idea. I've got a Lenco 4 speed for sale if you want to get crazy with it. lol
I'll take a Peterbilt so I can haul it around until this thing starts running instead, haha.

Quote Originally Posted by Henry Rifle
That ZZ motor is an excellent choice, as is the Richmond and the Dana 44. It will make a good street combo. With the right gear spread and differential gear, you can get real grunt off the line - and good cruising mileage with the overdrive. A trans first gear in the 3.0 - 3.2 range, and an even spread up to 1.0 in 5th and an 0.6 - 0.75 top gear would work pretty well with a differential ratio arround 3.00 - 3.50.
Thanks. The retailers I have been looking though offer 2.77, 3.01, 3.27, and 4.06 along with an optional .62 sixth gear.

Quote Originally Posted by Henry Rifle
Decide how much grunt you want off the line, and talk to Richmond about the right gear spread in the trans.
With six forward gears you I think I can afford to have a short running gear, but I've never driven a car geared this way before. What do you suggest?

Quote Originally Posted by Henry Rifle
With a 3.2 low gear in the trans, a 3.55:1 posi will act like a 5.16 behind a Muncie. Even a 3.00:1 posi will feel like 4.36 gears.
Pushing that many horses I know even a Dana 44 isn't indestructible, for a street car a key factor would be reliability. Do you think a girdle or heavy duty cover for the rear axle would be smart?

Quote Originally Posted by Henry Rifle
With that combo, that 1st year C4 will kick a$$ and take names.
Thats the idea! Thanks for all the help.

Quote Originally Posted by southerner
Theres going to be plenty of low end torque in that 383, you are on the right track there. What kind of induction are you going to run ??
Well the numbers advertised by the GM website we done using a pair of Demon carburetors.

I'll say up front I've never really done to much with carburetors, but at a shop I worked part time at we dropped a 350 along with the same carburetor setup into an older Corvette in place of the 427 and it made the guy a great daily driver. The only carburetors I've really gotten my hands dirty with have been on old tractors and two stroke outboard engines.

I've seen some FI intakes also offered by GM, along with other options suggested to me such as superchargers. I really don't know too much, what do you guys think?

Is for the actual placement of an intake system, it might be tricky. The 1984 Corvette had the Crossfire engine, and if you haven't heard of it there is a good reason not to. Inside the hood are two air ducks that run down and feed into either sides of the intake housing, which holds the Crossfire system. Just looking at it makes me wonder how the engine gets enough air.

With an engine placed so far back, and a hood so tight, I'm pretty sure I am going to need a brand new hood. With that, I could modify a cold air intake system from later years to feed into a single port such as FI or a supercharger or create some kind of cowl or vent for an carburetor setup, also allowing for height.

If any of this doesn't make sense, it's me not you, so just tell me if I have things wrong, thanks!

Quote Originally Posted by HWORRELL
I put a zz 350 in a dirt track modified a few years ago, only thing I did to it was a cam change and a alky carb and it ran like a banshee, around here most of the hotdogs run 430's with brodix heads and I could run with any of em on the 1/8,1/4 & 3/8 bullrings. Took it to a couple of mile shows " Duqoin & Springfield Illinois" and got my butt waxed,
I would say it would be a killer street motor.
Sounds like quite a car, as I mentioned previously I worked at a shop that did the same engine but in an earlier corvette and the results we amazing.

Quote Originally Posted by Henry Rifle
If you want to kick it up a notch, add the "Hot Cam" kit and 1.6 rockers. It adds another 40 hp or so.
Sounds like a great buy, do you know how that might affect the torque curve?

Thanks for the help everyone.