Thread: crazy ? caddy 472/500 in f-body

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kids these days have no concept of math----they don't know that 8 liters is twice as big as 4---just another number to them and means nothing about quantity or physical size--

got a new tech school grad working for corey and in balancing engines(which he has done several with a computer type balancer) he has no concept that if you double the size of the drill that you will take out 4 times as much weight and the changing radius with hole depth?????got to be kidding---he also is so used to using a calculater for adding numbers that I haven't been able to get him to write down the weights of the parts in nice straight columns so I can add them up

thats like when you go to buy something the kids working can do algebra but can not count backwards to give you change.

thats the wonderful public school system in fince action .

its ok i HAVE the cad but i do not have an ls, for a complete drop in one from the junkyard its 1200 bucks just for a 5.3 a 6.0 or even an ls1 are big money.

ls2's are out of the picture moneywise. i just thought it would be fricking cool because no ones done it yet, that ive seen.

got an ls for it, but its gonna be carbed, still got cad tho, those are cool motors.

that edelbrock manifold/msd ignition unit works super

the msd one is 10x better its programable whereas the edelbrock one has presets

the one we used was programable but i don't know if we got it with manifold or separate--anyway was a super package

i will stick witht he msd box, and a supervictor with an 850,

its going to be a 370CI with about a 200 shot on top

you will probably have to cut the cowl a little

on top of that already, i am also going to get 4 inch cowl. i think itll be fun. might as well nova is gone, if it takes a year or 2, so be it.

Change the rod bolts out for some good ARP, especially if you are giving it the Nitrous shot. Also check out this web page: Chevy | Camaro | Firebird Reviews, Performance Parts, Modifications - LS1Tech.com, huge amount of information there and lots of guys that willingly share info just like here. Much better choice than the big Caddy. Those are great truck motors if you want to build a tow rig.

Pat

i was just tossing ideas around only reason i picked up the f-body is because its a better race car then a truck, or else id of just kept going the truck/cad route. people put big block chevies into these 4thg ens i figured why not a caddy, who cares if its hard or impractical!? thats half the fun when things are done and over with.

but i have this ls left from when i wanted to ls my nova, only thing is this car waas originally a v6 but ive found the wiring diagrams on how to repin the harness