Anyone have the old DC 440 "recipes"?

[451Mopar]

I didn't know better when I was young and put the purple shaft 284/0.484" cam in my near stock 318. It had a streemaster 4-bbl, 600 holley and headers. The rest of the '67 Coronet was stock.
It was a dog out of the hole (I didn't know the tuning tricks back then either), but around 3,000 RPM it would finally pickup and run hard.
I actually won many bracket races because the competition would usually catch me early (and maybe let off) before my engine came up in RPM, and then the unexpected power surge would either out run them or make then break out. I think it only ran in the mid/high 14's at 4,500 altitude.

 

[Curiousyellow71]

I didn't know better when I was young and put the purple shaft 284/0.484" cam in my near stock 318. It had a streemaster 4-bbl, 600 holley and headers. The rest of the '67 Coronet was stock.
It was a dog out of the hole (I didn't know the tuning tricks back then either), but around 3,000 RPM it would finally pickup and run hard.
I actually won many bracket races because the competition would usually catch me early (and maybe let off) before my engine came up in RPM, and then the unexpected power surge would either out run them or make then break out. I think it only ran in the mid/high 14's at 4,500 altitude.

That's funny. My brother and I did nearly the same thing. The cam we had in our 318 had a advertised durations of 298/308. It idled at about 1000 rpm, below that the fire would go out. I think I was 17. No way would ours run 14s, but it had one hell of a top end. We shifted into 2nd at 70mph nearly every time, No tach...couldn't afford one. A lobe went flat the summer before I was a senior in high school. Out came the engine.

 

[340runner]

Being yound and full of enthusiasum. What a great time in life. I remember wanting to have a quick car. My 1st car was a 68 Road Runner 4 speed with a transplanted 440. 6 pac intake some wierd carbs with accelerator pumps on all 3 carbs, headers, and a 3.91 gear. I thought i was a hot rod wizzard reading Car Craft and Hot Rod. Realization set in when i went to the track, 14.4@100. I watched a guy with a 383 Road Runner running 12.80's. But how could that be my engine has a 6 pac and its bigger. It took many years to learn how to build quick stuff. I can remeber telling known race guys they didn't have it right. I thought I new better. Weeeelllllll. Now the reason for my post. Save yourself time and money. Chalk up th e383 debacle to a learning experience. Find a 360 Magnum. since it'll need pistons to make any kind of compression get a 4" crank stroker kit. Now can you afford heads? if not do a little bowl work, regrind the factory cam, get a performer RPM intake. Bolt it in with everything thats on th ecar now. With the exception of rebalancing the flywheel. Do that with the stroker kit. Later on when you get some cash put some aluminum heads on it. not the low ball stuff, Trick flow, Indy, reworked Eddys and bigger cam. You will save money. It'l bolt in. it'll be fast. I just refreshed a 408 for a customer. Trick flow heads and intake, solid roller. Had run 10.30's in a Duster.. with the right gear and traction a non stroker 360 should put you car in the 13's

Think how I feel haha. Now, granted I didnt build my motor, but still same idea. Cammed aluminum headed and intake, double pumper 340 that runs a 14.7 at 96.6? Yeah, I'm honestly kind of mad about the whole 360 thing myself, so I'm just gonna post this in here and make it simple, at the end of the day he bought the car for me, and I live under his roof so it's his wishes

Again with the broken record....

 

[Budnicks]

Some more recent contemporary books out there
to get good combos, with more recent parts
at least in this century
some stuff has come a long way


I'm pretty sure there something newer out there too

my latest/most recent MP one now
Mopar Engine 9th Edition
"Speed Secrets & Racing Modifications for Chrysler v8 & 6 Cylinder engines"
was like $25, from Mancini Racing
Part Number; P5249704

I'm sure you could find a cheap/used one on Flee-bag (E-bay) too

shitty photo & cheap camera or I'd post some stuff out of it

 

[Budnicks]

HP Books BIG BLOCK MOPAR PERFORMANCE
by Chuck Senatore HPbooks-1302
High Performance Racing modifications for B-RB series Engines

How to rebuild BIG-BLOCK MOPAR ENGINES
HP books by Don Taylor, HPbooks - 1190
cover all years B-RB

 

[1968rt]

Andys book is about the best and most up to date around. In the back he shows how to build various kinds of horsepower motors.

 

[Curiousyellow71]

Tech Articles | AR Engineering

Andy also has good tech articles on his website and contributes on FABO and this site.