Recent content by Dan the man

Remember, he did port work on those heads too. He's a darn good mechanic

You can think that if you want to. I'll see what size intake runner's those heads have. The engine was designed and built to spin to 7500-8000 rpm's. This guy knows his stuff.

He bought the cylinder heads new but I don't know if they were bare or not. I do know that he had a 3 angle valve job done along with a back cut on the valve's. He reworked the bowl area. But my luck would be like you said. Now he's building a 4.3 V/6 for his vega. Heads are stock, they are...

He ran stock 400 block. I don't remember the exact details but he said something about the block having a higher nickel content I believe it was. I do know that it was a truck block that he had machined for 4 bolt splayed main caps, align bored, bored / honed 0.030" with torque plates, had...

He ran speedmaster cylinder heads and he did all of his own port work. Remember, this is a sbc and they cost about half of what a sbm would cost. I wish that I could remember the name of the parts that he used. He got a forged crankshaft for $400. Like I mentioned earlier he bought everything...

Going by that, it would cost like $6500 for a 360 horsepower 360. It's been said on here that you can get 400 horsepower from a 5.9 with bolt ons.

I don't know for sure if he still has the parts list. He got some awesome deals on those eBay stores, he showed me the cost difference and ebay was a lot cheaper than the mail order stores.

I forgot to mention that he built his sbc for under $6700 for everything

It's hard to put a figure on this, as machine shop cost vary from one place to another. And parts cost, depends on where you shop. A good friend of mine built a 650 horsepower 406 sbc. He bought his parts off of eBay stores and they were all name brand parts.

What do you mean by piston pin adj?

RRR, Is it okay if I pm you about questions on the/6?

Glad to hear that it's all good there

That's good. Wanted to check in and make sure you and family were okay. I hope that anyone else who lives there are safe and sound as well

Has anyone heard from toolmanmike since the tornadoe went through Iowa? I sure hope that he and his family are okay, and anyone else on here that lives there

Thanks rumblefish360. I agree FABO just might make a motor head out of me yet and I think that would be awesome