Stock 360 Upgrades for Crusher Cuda?

CrusherCuda said

I will have to do an inspection on the engine. I think it had 70K on it. I'll have to go back and look at the odometer in the Polara. Most of these upgrades are best case scenario. If the engine is wore out, I will still install in the car and make a slow pass, but plan on regrouping next year to rebuild the engine. Budget allowing..

Click to expand...

You used to be able to buy heavy duty hydraulic rockers. You’d never hurt one of those. My stock rockers had well over 100,000 abusive miles on them when I bought the car. Then I rebuilt the engine with a Strip Dominator, got the compression to 10:1 (would have rather had the 10.5:1 like it should have been but I just turned 18 and the guy doing the machine work at that time couldn’t get it through his chevy head that the piston needed to come out of the bore .045) put some 1.75 headers on and that 292 cam. Then I beat the hell out of some more.

In fact, that engine went 12.90’s at a bit over 109 MPH in 1982. I had clutch and hook issues. It should have run a real low 12. And that was on stock hydraulic rockers.