Skid Mark - how fast for 5k?

[TheSilverBuick]

The way you are gutting your car, my slow junk might not have a chance!

[BBR]

Lem works at BF Evans. Charlie has a machine shop and builds some nice stuff.

Those scja's are saweet. They are what I really wanted when I found my Trick Flows.

Come join us in the BB/NA class!!! Don't worry about my trap. The way my luck runs, it won't make it the whole week!!

[SuperBuickGuy]

I'd really like to get into what I think of as a "jacket class" and while I would never expect to place, I'd like to at least be able to taunt Randal or James. lol.

BBR's 122mph trap speed is haunting me. The AOD behind the 302 would barf on a 50hp hit, a C4 would need to be built. It'd need all of this head and still maybe Naaawwwss, both Randal and James have sexy aluminum heads. I'll be like the little kid trying to tag along but riding a Schwinn Stingray with chrome fenders, when everyone else has Mongeese!

focus... must stay focused. Bastids... Iceholes. lmao@self.

ya know, with the amount you're going to spend, an 6.0 LS would help you in a variety of ways

[Beagle]

ya know, with the amount you're going to spend, an 6.0 LS would help you in a variety of ways

a 6.0 won't make well over 550 pounds of torque, have H Beams and forged Ross pistons for 1040.00 either. I'm not very far into my wallet until (if) I pull the trigger on the heads.. I'd port the DoVE's I picked up for 125 and other than the 460 needing a diet, Mr. LS would have it's hand more than full. The reason for the shiny bits is time. If we break it down, the turd motor should be about 350-375 with the parts it's got, and that's

400.00 engine with C6 - good luck finding a usable 6.0 AND 500hp capable trans for that
(25.00 porting instructions, heads should go 300+/160 cfm maybe 180 exhaust. I'm not putting my "book" in the budget and I'm not addicted to flow numbers.)
440.00 H beam rods
200.00 Ross 4.39 forged piston, 16cc dish ... try THAT on your LS? Just a little old .030 bore.
20.00 NEW Blue Racer cam (I still want to use this and the D3's just because)
135.00 Torker ii
110 3310 Holley brand new ebay deal, really need a DP I guess but hell, it's a truck motor.
185 overbore, block prep, freeze plugs and cam bearings
50.00 lifters
50.00 gasket set
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1590

I know, I know... the mighty LS is 500 hp with a cam (300 cam and 300 springs and 180 pushrods and 400 carb intake and at least 110 for a carb and then what to do with the ignition, or an expensive LS6 manifilold and bigger injectors and MS and plane ticket for Scott to tune it and given our past, massive sucking up on my part... if that would even work. very big grin.)

No offense to the almighty LS, but I don't think I could do this any cheaper. I wouldn't give up the 90 cubes worth of torque for something this heavy.

Honestly, the heads and new cam etc would put the big Ford on top of the same money into the LS.

I'd have to buy headers either way, 300-600, probably a pan, I know I did for the Ford. 160 because I was lazy and that was new with pickup, studs, gaskets. You can use a Van pan I've been told here (Stiney I think?) but time is a problem for me. I'm concerned about the fuel pump but I think I can dead head the EFI pump and have it feed a mechanical.

The C6 will put up with anything I have with a dirt cheap re-clutch and 250.00 tow truck converter. There is a 337.50 turbo laying on the floor, I should stop being a puss and go that way. The airflow on it is good for 990 hp by my math (which has been known to be wrong). Add for 75# injectors, 1000 cfm TB, big fuel pump, and MS. I have all the sensors I would need I think. It would only be 2 bar max.

'sides that, how many BBF Mark Vii's have you ever seen? Grin.

[SuperBuickGuy]

yeah, but how often do you get the chance to irritate Mr. Speedy?

[Bob Holmes]

yeah, but how often do you get the chance to irritate Mr. Speedy?

By the way, the tag line is ..."priceless".

[Beagle]

I came home from the casino today with 300.00 more than I went in with. I should have stopped when I was 850 up, would have been half way there.

paid for the headers anyway!

[milner351]

NICE! I stay away from those places for the most part - I don't have your kind of luck!

[Beagle]

I usually lose my a$$ , it's a once or twice a year thing where I take a few hundred bucks and if I lose, I leave. Sometimes I win, and sometimes I'm drug out of the place by the MUCH smarter Monica while I still have any winnings.

If we entertain the new heads idea, the cam I have is way wrong. It would make good cylinder pressure at 9:1 but at over 10.5:1, so very wrong. I am thinking something 240ish at .050 to keep pressures reasonable for pump gas. This looks kinda like what I want -

243/251 @ .050
Gross Valve Lift (Int/Exh): .608/.611
LSA: 102
RPM Range: 3000-6500

http://www.lunatipower.com/Product.aspx?id=2317&gid=284

more gear and more converter than I currently have. The 282s Comp solid looks to make too much cranking compression maybe, but is closer to the stuff I already have (2500 stall, 3.27 gear).

Thoughts?

What I think I want is between a 282s and 294s Solid Comp - do you think they will grind me one that size? One is 236* and the other is 248*. I need "just right"... lol.

[SuperBuickGuy]

6.0 LS with a Turbo... scrap the 460, they'll make it into two Hondas

[Beagle]

I'd drink bleach first... any other thoughts? lol.

[Beagle]

Shiny parts showed up today - this and the rack showed up while I was out of town. 135.00 here... much better than the original Torker I had for it. I'll show the port size difference later. Yay!

[SuperBuickGuy]

I'd drink bleach first... any other thoughts? lol.

I'm not sure bleach is strong enough to cleanse you from being a FoMoCo worshipper

but pretty new parts

[Bob Holmes]

I'm not sure bleach is strong enough to cleanse you from being a FoMoCo worshipper

but pretty new parts

True dat, next thing you know you'll be whining about how the magazine industrial complex screwed you out of a place at drag week due to your lack of attention.

[Beagle]

That is a USED part! I'm pretty happy with it.

I can't read anyway, I just look at the pictures. That's why I subscribe to Playboy. I used to like Penthouse until they went scratch and sniff. Sorry, bad joke. I opened that thing, in it's original box, and 10 minutes later was asking "why does the living room smell like gas?" - it's that clean, but it's still a used part and my dumbass didn't register it.

Monsoon season has started. Dad had the brilliant idea that I should clean the garage so I could work inside. Dang, he's smart.