Thread: 427 fe side oiler aluminium rods

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i just talked to the guy and the connecting rods are howards .. the cam specs are 310 lobe center, 785 lift and 312 duration.. thanks for your input pat i appreciate it.. i think i might just get some race gas and put this thing in how it is.. i never really beat the crap out of it, yes i will jump on it and play but i wont be racing it.. for how much i drive it i wouldnt mind it being crazy.. he said the dyno test was 797 horsepower on race gas.. i know he spent a pretty penny on it and i got it for 2k.

Originally Posted by stanger68

i just talked to the guy and the connecting rods are howards .. the cam specs are 310 lobe center, 785 lift and 312 duration.. thanks for your input pat i appreciate it.. i think i might just get some race gas and put this thing in how it is.. i never really beat the crap out of it, yes i will jump on it and play but i wont be racing it.. for how much i drive it i wouldnt mind it being crazy.. he said the dyno test was 797 horsepower on race gas.. i know he spent a pretty penny on it and i got it for 2k.

well Howards rods in there add say they can take street miles and it has to do with heat but they should take 10.000 miles EZ i know on my titanium crower rods$$$$ they would not tell me that for miles i have some engines like that its fun to go for a short blast .then put it back before the good guys want to haul you a way

We used to run Howard's rods and cams back in the 70s in our fuel cars--they used something like 2014 cross rolled forgings( what ever that meant) and was a lot stronger than the more common 60xx that the other companies used--I remember seeing some specs about the strength changing with temps above 400* but really you shouldn't have oil temps that high anyway---

I have had a set of Childs and Alberts setting a few years in my bbc race engine that split down the threaded part of the rod bolt hole

Originally Posted by stanger68

also my mustang has a 9" rear end already and ill be putting a toploader 4 speed in with the engine..

Why go with a 4 speed? If I were building a car to actually drive it would get something with overdrive. A TKO600 would go nicely behind that 427. What rear end gear will you be using?