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Abodybomber

Abodybomber

Breaking street machines , since 1983.....:)
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The craziness, you have seen cast /hypertuectic pistons go through? A low buck rebuild 360,head work /mild cam. 4:10's out back,3600 stall. The owner ,was/is a nimwit. Would spin the Speed Pro hypers,7500 with ,a 150 shot. Nuts,but kind of cool . Those pistons,lived through 4 blocks. (Dumbo/Cheapo ,wouldn't part the money,for a real oil pan). If interested, share yours....
 
Sealed Power 4 valve relief H405CP Hypers spinning 7000. Stock rods, crank, moderately worked over 1.88 / 1.6 596 heads 235 / 180 cfm. Heads milled .050 (58cc), along with .028 head gasket yielding 10:1 comp. 252*@.050 .528 lift cam. Expecting to get 11.20s out of it this Saturday.

Mostly used parts, low buck dumpster build. Turned out to run nearly a second faster than expected.
 
Ran a true budget build 318 in several vehicles (same engine)

Stock bore, stock pistons, forged 340 crank, lunati 494/513 cam, 2.02 J heads (milled), .028 head gaskets, 340 intake & 850 thermofrog, recurved dist (full advance at 1200)

Can't remember much else about it, the engine was trashed when a tree fell on the shed I had it stored in. It was truly the cheap of the cheap though, literally put together for the cost of gaskets and used whatever parts I had laying around

I would rev the crap out of it, the last vehicle I had it in was a 2WD Dodge D50 pickup with an A833 and 3.90 gears. Slamming the clutch with the throttle to the floor through all 4 gears.
 
No times or dyno runs on my build but it is of a similar idea.

360
Used KB-107.030
OE rods resized, straightened, lightened and smoothed.
Crank cleaned up @ .10/.10
New oil pump
RPM heads. A/G & 750(This replaced 2,02 J's and a Torker II w/a 750)
Hooker Super Comps
Solid comp cam @ 248* (IIRC)
4spd & 4.10's

Should be fun. The 2.02 J's w/TorkerII and the Purple 292/.509 was good for low 12's
 
Thanks, before the Edel. Top end package, it is basicly a spare parts used parts put together build. Some things of Course have to be brand spankin new. The most expensive part of the engine build was the cam & super comps @ $300 (years back) worth every penny on my E body.

Added 4.10's and rowed my boat (4spd) into the 12'a easy enough.
But that is kind of the point. Nothing fancy was done. A stock style rebuild with decent slugs and a cam did well. Even with the stock used J heads, used 750, TorkerII360, etc...

Once I upgraded the top end and added a solid cam, the rpm band changed. A good bit higher.

M first engine build was a 318 with cast Badger slugs that I have taken to 6800.
 
Older build but I was impressed...
'68 440
Stock rods, stock crank, stock block +.030, KB-237s, MP solid .528 cam, my ported 915s and M1, 91 pump unleaded (prior to 10% ethanol). In a 3800lbs B body, 727, street 10" convertor, 3.91s. Drove 1.5hrs on the highway to the track, raced with best runs in the low 11.60s @ 116, drove home. 6 years of this, 500 runs in the log book, many not logged, many street races and cruising miles too. Finally expired in the burnout box at 3000rpm when the main webbing let go.
 
One of my more fun engines when I was too ignorant to know better...lol.
stock '69 340 - factory cast pistons. New rings (stock replacement), small Comp cam (passed emissions for a few years), stock Thermoquad, headers, Jacobs ignition, 175hp NOS system in my '74 Barracuda with a 4sp and 3.23s. Pegged both the rally speedo at 150, and the factory tach (7500) at various times during nighttime commutes to tech school and street racing. The pistons lost some ring lands when i ran out of gas and a nice old lady gave me the gas for her lawnmower to get to a gas station... I had to climb out of a valley and it was nasty fuel.. The engine pinged like mad doing it and that was that.
I still have the baggie with the parts of the rings and pistons hanging above my work bench as a reminder.
 
I ran a Mopar Performance remanufactured short block with Speed Pro hyper pistons, stock rods and crank. The cam was the 292, .508 Purple Shaft. Box stock Edelbrock heads.
Short block was $1000 and the heads were $1200.
I topped this combo off with a 174 blower (6PSI) and sprayed it with a 75 shot on the street.
Track use would get a 150 shot.
I ran this combo for years, it was my daily driver and had at least 30,000 miles , hard miles.
I would drive 225 miles to Carlisle Pa, 4000RPMs for hours.
Shifting at the track would be around 6000RPMs.
Unless I was losing, than I'd pin the tach at 8000. LOL
Heres what was in the pan after running 10.6@128MPH
 

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