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Depends on what springs you have and how close you are to coil bind. Also depends on what your valve to piston clearance is. Changing rocker arms is one good experiment but I wouldn't bother with 1.60 rockers, go straight to 1.70 if they'll fit. And only put them on the intake. The Trick Flow...

Sure, why not. You can always sell it down the road. Those intakes will always sell at a swap meet. It will work better than a cast iron intake and the price seems fair.

You have a really tough road ahead of you but it is better to start now than to not start at all. The best answer over the last several decades has been to invest in low cost index fund. The best index fund for you is probably a S&P 500 fund but there are other ones. It is important to only buy...

The factory could've cleaned up in the muscle car wars if they had built a low deck 470 engine using a 400 block, Max Wedge heads and a MW sized dual plane intake with a big Holley carb. They had all of the technology to build engines like that in early 70's. I'm sure they thought of it but...

I took a look at the thread and I don't know what happened. Looked like a stamped cover which is really iffy with a roller cam. A stamped cover usually needs to be reinforced for a roller cam. I always use a billet timing cover for roller cams but some people don't want to spend the money for...

Engine test is finished and the engine is sitting in a dolly waiting for the customer to take it home and enjoy it.

Made 700/700 at 5500. We shut it off there because we didn't want to blow the bottom end out of the stock block. Torque curve was flat and power was headed to the moon when we shut it off.

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Heads are OOTB Trick Flow 240. Bottom end is nothing special, just a generic 4.250 stroker kit with dished pistons. Compression is too high for much boost so we're setting it up with 15% underdrive on the blower. Don't want the customer to blow it apart the first time he puts his foot in it...

They vary depending on wall thickness but usually in the 210 to 220 range. RB blocks are a little heavier, maybe 215 to 225.

Getting ready to run a 505 inch blower motor on the dyno. We'll run it first with NA with a carb and then once the engine condition is verified we'll add the blower. Should make around 600 hp NA and then make more than 700 hp with the blower. Engine has a gear drive so it will be noisy. Going...

The parts you have are not "max performance" anymore. That might have been a max performance build in 1975, but it isn't today. Just call it "old school" and roll with it. Sounds like you have all the parts except for the cam. PRH can get you the best cam for the combination so talk to him. If...

Four carb studs screwed into a cast aluminum manifold will easily hold a lot more than what an engine weighs. It takes a huge amount of force to bust four bolts out of an aluminum manifold.

A carb plate works fine with most cast intakes. Heavily ported intake, billet stuff, etc. should use a spreader bar and hook to the ends of the heads. Can also pick up from the exhaust bolts if you have a weird intake like a cross ram.

Could be an internal problem where something binds up with hot. Check the rotating torque both cold and hot. If the rotating torque is the same then it is your starter.

We just finished up a 409 inch SBC with Pontiac heads. It was mostly used parts with the exception of new pistons, lifters, valve springs, bearings, etc. Factory 400 block that has been raced for years, used crank, used rods, heads are 40 years old, etc. I think the owner has roughly $12K in the...

Trust me, you don't need to see the video. Nick talks a lot without saying much and there is nothing in this video that you don't already know. Basically he tests a stock engine and finds out that it performs like a stock engine and then he pretends to not understand why that is.

At the shop I work with it costs roughly $4500 for all of the labor associated with machine work, balancing, bearing and ring fit, surfacing, assembly and then dyno test. Stroker engines are usually around $7500 of parts and $4500 for labor so out the door around $12K but that number varies all...

I don't know. It isn't something that I ever bothered to check since very few engines are built with gear drives. I'm sure that the design could be modified slightly to accommodate a gear drive if that was a requirement.

I'm not interested in making those covers again but I would sell my original CAD files and sign over the design rights and permission to access the tooling files for $500 The machine code files are owned by the machine shop that built the parts for me so the parts would need to be run there, but...

I suppose you are correct. Nick probably makes more money from YouTube than he does from engine building so maybe posturing for YouTube clicks is what it is all about now.

I watched some of that 383 dyno session but I lost interest before it finished. Engine looked like a resto project so it was weird that Nick was so worked up. Maybe he is just always worked up? Resto projects don't make power, they look pretty. Hard to tell in the video but it looked like a...

You can change over to B or E body drum brakes. It is an easy conversion if you have the parts in hand.

Yeah that looks like a good grind. We use Gaterman lifters and I think that the Howard hyd roller lifters are sourced from Gaterman so they should be okay. OP will need to make sure his valve springs match the new camshaft.

It is a fair price if it was put together correctly with decent parts. Before buying it you should ask for a parts list and look over the receipts.

Dedicated drag car I'd go with struts up front. Struts are lightweight, don't take up much room and will add value when you sell the car. They do a require a professional install but if you already have a full cage then it shouldn't be too difficult.

Leave the perches loose and have them welded on once the car is put together. With leaf springs you can't guess since the leafs move around a ton. If you have a Calvert setup you might be able to mock it up but even then I'd wait until the car was together. If you have a four link you can figure...

The shop I work with builds Mopar stroker engines all the time. There are usually three or four of them in process. They usually end up costing between $10K and $15K depending on the parts used. You can build a good street motor on a budget but you have to be super careful about part selection...

Thanks. That was back in the days when I had a cushy side gig writing for Motor Trend. They would pay me $1500 for the article and the vendors would send me the parts at a discount or sometimes for free. I had to do all the labor and pay for the dyno time, but I usually broke even once I cashed...

Depends on the lift. A higher rocker arm ratio won't change the advertised duration much, but it can easily double or triple the duration at the higher valve lifts. Of course, those events happen very, very quickly so it might not have much effect on power. On my 511 race engine I would pick up...