nstyle73
Well-Known Member
I am not a complete newbie to the hobby, but this is the first engine build project in my repertoire. I have a 493 short block. I would like to go to studs on the bottom end and will have to have it align honed and machined for retrofit roller lifters. I am trying to decide on a cam and will be calling a couple of cam makers for some advice, but real world users have valuable information to share. The car is a 73 Charger, pushing 4K lbs with driver, currently 3.55 gears, 4 speed, strictly street driving. I kid myself when I think that it might go to the track. 2" headers, Trickflow 240 heads, 1.5 and 1.6 roller rockers are already in the garage as is an Edelbrock RPM intake. I fear the intake to be too large a restriction for these heads and can't bring myself to pay to port it when I could go to a single planefor the same money. I am looking at cams in the 235-245* @.050", 110LSA. My main concern is I would like to keep the power coming in around that 2000-2500 range, but know I am giving some up on the top end with these heads and a small cam, but have never driven a stroker so I don't know how founded this concern is with the extra cubes down low.
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