You're right, I enjoy driving my cars on the street. The goal is performance that includes comfort and safety, and reliability.
The goal of this build is to raise the hp and torque minimum into the high-400's, while moving the power band lower in the rpm range.
The block will receive a bore and hone, clean and square the decks. The machine shop will install new cam bearings and the oil pump shaft bushing.
It will be a 408" stroker, TF aluminum heads, Eddy RPM AirGap intake, Eddy 800 cfm AVS2 carb, keeping the TTI headers. Hyd roller cam, within the 230 - 236 duration range, > .550 lift, and minimum LSA of 110°.
We're assembling the engine in Greg's shop. This is my first small block engine build, in fact it's only my second build ever. The 440 in the Coronet was built by the machine shop. A friend and I built a 440 for my Charger back in 1985. Honestly, we didn't know what we were doing. We just followed the FSM and the advice from more seasoned car guys. But the engine ran great, all the way up until I sold the car in 1991, so we did something right, or were just lucky.
Today, with the internet, how-to books, and this forum, I armed with a pretty good understanding of matching compatible parts to achieve my goal. A few resources I'm leaning heavily on is the YT channel JustMoparJoe. He's filmed a multi-part series on building a 360.
@krazykuda wrote an excellent series of articles on his 360 build. I'm also reading 'How To Rebuild the Small-Block Mopar' by William Burt.
@Kern Dog has a wealth of knowledge on small blocks, and A bodies in general and I'm looking forward to going through the build process with him.
And of course there's this forum. I started this thread not only to document my build, but to invite members to comment and advise, and even question some of my decisions. Thank you in advance.