Thread: thinking about building a 429/460

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MRC, here's a good budget, maintenance-free, pump gas stroker combo for the street:

• Stock block with oiling mods
• 500 cube stroker kit with 4.14 stroke crank, 6.800 H-beam rods, .030" overbore 32cc dished pistons
• HV oil pump
• Lunati 61605 hydraulic cam
• Ported C9VE heads with 2.19" intake/1.76 exhaust valves, requisite port work, springs retainers, locks etc.
• Quality roller rockers, such as Crane Gold Series or equivalent.
• Weiand Stealth part number 8012 aluminum intake manifold
• Holley 950HP
• Recurved Duraspark distributor or MSD breakerless
• Headers
• (this makes a 9.8:1 c/r)

A well planned version of the above build ought to manage at least 550 HP and have the potential for much, much more with induction changes and a camshaft upgrade...but at the cost of fuel economy and preventive maintenance.

Paul

Just going to add my .02 to the mix; I have a 460+.060,line bored,decked,iron heads (76 lincoln) ported by myself on the exhaust side and gasket matched on intake side, 3 angle valve job, .020 milled from heads,flat top hyper-utetic pistons, arp rod bolts, all balanced,Comp Cams 270H kit, edelbrok performer intake with 750cfm carb,hedders with 2 in primarys,stock ignition with mallory box, stock oil pump,RV torque converter and C6 trans, very streetable on pump gas. This is in my 1963 Mercury Monterey 2 dr sedan and it suprises many a chebby that laughs at big heavy cars with the blue oval, my biggest problem is traction, I can fry the tires way past 80 mph if I launch too hard.