what were your expieriences with them? did you find any differences in brands? weiand, edelbrock ,offy?
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what were your expieriences with them? did you find any differences in brands? weiand, edelbrock ,offy?
yes weiands and if you look at my photos you can see me making a sheet metal one
With tunnel rams there are differances in everything---volume, length, cross section,entry angles, port match, pleum volume,etc.etc.etc.etc
yes that would be true
just a plain jane off the shelf weiand or edelbrock is what i was refering to ive seen them sheetmetal ones WOW! nice work pat.
Ive ran an edelbrock TRI Y on a street strip vega, I still have the intake. It was horrible on the street but a real kiier on the strip. You lose alot of your bottom end torque with a tunnel ram, but gain big power at high RPM's. Your 283's would wind up with a tunnel ram. You have to figure every pro stock drag car made for years and years have ran and still run tunnel rams.
That is very true, but when was the last time you saw a Pro Stock drag car cruise down main street from stop light to stop light? In my opinion, a wrong choice for a street driven car.Quote:
Originally Posted by mooneye777
Mike
i dont drive my car on the street :LOL: maybe arund the block tweaking with something but never more then a mile away 99.9% track .00001 street use
Then I say, go for it!!!!
Mike
thats where im going :3dSMILE: called aorund a few cam places so far the best 2 recomendations have been crower and chet herbert. still waiting on howards to call back here it is!
its a weiand with 450's
i would look at erson . crower . isky
i tried isky the cam they said wasnt so good, which was surprising. crower was a good one have not tried eroson called and left a message though. same with howards
was not so good to what ?Quote:
Originally Posted by gassersrule_196
If its a chevy. Cam Motion makes the best HP of all.
as to what ? they make more power? i do not use to many out of box cams ? they are best for custom cams or off the shelf grinds ??? i had good running engines using many howards .crower.isky. ersons .lunati .and other i look at numbers and if they can grind what i want . every one has a sweet heart cam grinder . i like not waiting on the line for a hour like COMP and then taking to a guy that knows less about cams then i do **)Quote:
Originally Posted by bada
I've got a never used Crower inverse ramp cam they ground for me years ago that I didn't use as the guys I was building an engine for pissed me off----PM me your address and I'll send it to you---what else do you need????
did i piss you off :(Quote:
Originally Posted by jerry clayton
PS---it was for a 287 cid sb for D gas at the time tunnel ram, high rpm, just what you need
no pat---i was trying to answer Scooter
ok you never got back to me on rod boring the pin end just checking :3dSMILE:Quote:
Originally Posted by jerry clayton
hey---I bored them with a wik Way rm 100---haven't used it for years---if it is still out by the old shop, you can have it--I'll check in a few days, get back to you
It would bore the pin end and you could set up so as to do whole set same lenth. I used it mainly to alter lengths by off set bushing
Sorry I forgot
Soon to be 68
yes that what i was thinking i want them all the same length i was just asking if you did them on one of your mills i have done did them on the mill not much fun i was looking for a tobin arp or kwik way .hey jerry check out my photos look at my tobin arp seat machine that i made all the parts to re place the missing gear box the only tobin arp machine using a jesel belt drive :LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by jerry clayton
Scooter I have some Idea's On a Few Grinds . I am sure with that T-Ram and one of these Camshaft Pick's your car will run High 11's . Yes even with them Old Iron Fuelly Heads .
I wandered what that was, but then I saw the 392 in the 34---I'm planning on doing a 392 and a flathead and switch them back and forth---paint and upholstery costs too much to have 2 cars
yes i know the chevy still needs door upholster was looking on e bay for a good heavy duty sewing machine and try my hand at it:DQuote:
Originally Posted by jerry clayton
I seem to remember that this thing ran around 9.50 or so at high 140 low 150-
it was in a Chev Monza and Tango, maybe you remember it--Touret, Mongomery& ???? around 1977-78???
In the Late 70's Did most of my Drag Racing at union Grove Track in Wis . Early 80s Also ran at US-30 and Byron . I most Likely Know you . As for the 9.50 Monza . I would say in 1977-78 Them Monzas where just starting to be Built into Po-Cars . I Remember some High 9's Vega's . Back then if you had a 10 Sec Bracket Car that was Fast . I never thought we would have the Speed Parts that we do have today . I do think in the early 80's Ford gave Drag Racing a Kick Start with it's 5.0 GT Mustang . Every one and there Brother Had one . And they where Racing them .Quote:
Originally Posted by jerry clayton
I don't have mine for race setup, street only and once setup... is a lot of fun! and its Offenhauser 360
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They friggin ROCK! Don't buy into that Urban Legend crap about them not working on the street, that's a bunch of hooie. I'm far from being a NASCAR mechanic and if I can make them work anyone can. I ran one back in the 70's and that's what I have on both cars now. Two 600 Eddies on the 32 and two 500s on the 62.
Bad advice:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike52
i had two of them on bbc s on the street they work fine one had a inline autolite on the top of a modified holley tunnel ram .and the other was a weiand with two carter AFBsQuote:
Originally Posted by Joliet Jake
Sorry for venting a little, but my dander gets up every time someone says a derogatory comment about tunnel rams on the street.
I looked at some old National Dragsters and the record was in the higher 9s, not mid nines back then--- 283+.030, knife edged crank, the then new iron angle plug heads, edelbrock t-ram, sideways mounted carbs, MSD 7 ignition(before al) shifts around 11000, doug nash 5 speed
i aint worried about street use haha. my buddy hasone on a camaro been ont here since the late 80's works great.
jerry- pm sent
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I had a black '67 Camero that had a 283 4bl, 4spd, posi, with 131k. I got spring fever and changed the cam, headers, 2x4 tunnel ram. It was fun, till I hit a 4" round patch of ice on the on-ramp on to the freeway, and the peddle was to the metal, and I was pulling gears, then the tac pegged and bang! my brother was be hind me in his '69 Camero, and said the flames touched my rear spoiler. we never did find most of one cyl, a piston with half the rod, and another rod with wrist pin only bent 90 degree, but we knew where it left the block/pan. It only made it to 132k. :( So I put my 454 in. :D
That was back in about '75.
Pat
how hard were those 132k miles? :LOL:
