Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project

Brandon Weaver said
Serj, the problem I see with that is with Wiseco pistons you need to use either the K1/Molnar rod or a 198 rod may work. And then in the end, you will end up like Bill and have 9:1 compression. Except he can run on race gas and you can't. Pretty much, your only other options are custom pistons. Either through Flatlander or other well known companies. The good news is I hear custom pistons are getting cheaper... Would've been a lot simpler if Wiseco had just made a plain stock replacement forged piston. I guess that'd be too easy :violent1:

Oh, another thing. If you find the OCG Mech cam spec sheet over at .org (it's in the engine FAQs) look at the 1793D cam. I think that is a nice, simple, single pattern grind that has all the characteristics you'd want. Small duration, semi-aggressive lobes, high lift. Just have it ground at a 111-112 duration. Should come on nice and strong right off idle, and I wouldn't be surprised if it kept pulling to 5k.
Specs: [email protected] duration, [email protected], .485 lift with a 1.5 rocker

That grind sounds good to me - accepting that I could not figure it out myself. I'll keep researching too. As for pistons, do you know of some other "drop in" configuration piston besides a stock one? I'm figuring if I can't get something extreme, then I can at least find something robust.

Pulling to 5k would be excellent.

As for progressive work done today, I didn't do much. I fixed someone's M1 carbine stock, and re-oiled it, and did more work on a boat restoration, like usual (since it's my job) and since radioshack is closing up, i went in and found some heat shrink tube, and wire connectors, no flat spades like I need for the other part, but I managed to build a harness for my HEI for about $2.00.

As I work on this engine project as well, I'll be working on going through individual wiring circuits and replacing them with nicer ones, and tuck whatever I can.

As for above I have a t3/t4 hybrid currently while I'm still working on the garrett airreasearch turbo, which is a t3/t3