225 slant 6 or 360 v8
Thanks for your opinion. you are right though... it is less streetable. but the PO did use it as a daily driver and i live 1.5 miles from school so its not that bad. now what your saying is right that it a mild v8 will have better street manners. but rn i found a really good deal so i think im gonna take it. the cam is an erson cam
[email protected] 108lsa 510 lift... so way more aggressive than stock no question. and the PO did tell me he ran very low 14s, but my car is lighter so i should be in the high 13s depending on my gear.
And right now the biggest reason im going with the slant is because i just think its cool and different to have a hot 6 cylinder
Well that's a whole new way of thinking.
But I gotta tell you low 14s and mid-8s are not generally run by the same set-up. This shows just how pipey that slanty must be. It seems to do pretty good in the 1/8th,But when it shifts into 3rd, the jig is up.
Here is something else to think about;It is unlikely that that 10.5 slanty will be anything but detonation-prone with a smaller cam; the Dcr will go out of sight pretty quickly.
And driving just 1.5 miles to school on a cold engine, twice a day, will be tremendously hard on the rings and cylinder walls.And the muffler. And the colder it gets, the worse it will be.And letting it idle for any period of warm up beyond the bare minimum is also hard on the poor rings.
The vast majority of ring and cylinder wear, occurs during the warm-up period and on short trips. You need an EFI car. A throw-away car. Cuz in 5 to 7 years of such abuse, the slanty will be done.And she may still be on the first oil change interval.Do the math; 3 miles a day,5 days a week, for 40wks per year, and 5 years, equals 3000 miles.
So the question is; is it worth it to you, to totally wear out a $1000 race engine in 3000 miles? Heck of a deal? You could probably buy a good running Sunfire for less. And throw it away when you are done. And probably drive 4 or more times as far on the same gas.