Small Block Stroker almost completed...

[65RoadRacer]

It's been an interesting build, but it's getting close to completed. A few more touches and it's coming home.

I started with a 1973 360 block, and Scat Crankshafts put together a forged stroker kit with JE Pistons. I added a Main Stud Girdle for bottom-end strength.

Comp Cams put together a Camshaft, Lifters, and Roller Rockers for the Edelbrock Magnum heads. I used an Edelbrock Super Victor Intake for Port Injection (FAST XFI) and Edelbrock drilled the heads for an LA Intake for me.

Up top, we added a set of Jomar Rocker Arm Stud Girdles for top end strength, and currently - because of the upper stud girdles - I'm having a set of valve covers made by Williams Manufacturing in Lake Elsinore.

The front drive will be a Billet Specialties setup, and I'll run TTI Exhaust headers. The whole package is buttoned up with nothing else but ARP fasteners.

 

[Lionized]

Love it! Stroked to 408"?

 

[493 Mike]

That's too pretty to install. Put it in the living room and build another one!
Mike

 

[65RoadRacer]

LOL I had the block painted close to the color of the car.... I'm really liking it. Can't wait to get the front drive installed.
Yes, 408 cubes using the 4-inch stroker crank.

 

[rumblefish360]

Nice, very nice.
What will be the compression ratio?
What are your cam specs @.050/lift etc....?

 

[PRND21]

Very, very nice. Would like to see more detailed specs on your engine, unless they’re top secret. Love your Belvedere. I read your article in Chrysler Power a few days ago, interesting. I, also bought a pre production Windtunnel manifold, waiting to use it on my 63 Fury. Thanks.

 

[wyrmrider]

Circle dished pistons with Edelbrock heads
send them back

 

[65RoadRacer]

I'll try to get the cam specs for you soon... the heads use a 1.6 SBC stud mount rocker, and we're running [lower] compression for the second part of the build. hint hint

re: circle dished pistons/Edelbrock heads... why do you say "send them back"? these pistons were made for us by JE for this build.

 

[rumblefish360]

I'll try to get the cam specs for you soon... the heads use a 1.6 SBC stud mount rocker, and we're running [lower] compression for the second part of the build. hint hint

Cool thanks.
Does Jomar routinely makes these girdles? And are they rocker arm specific?
Hint hint answered! Supercharged!

re: circle dished pistons/Edelbrock heads... why do you say "send them back"? these pistons were made for us by JE for this build.

Because wyrmrider sees things one way and circle dished pistons are made for serving up soup to eat.
If the Comp Cam isn’t a .904 specific lobe, your using the wrong cam. Etc....

You write for Chrysler Power? That place that has ans sells a new poly intake?

 

[65RoadRacer]

Cool thanks.
Does Jomar routinely makes these girdles? And are they rocker arm specific?
Hint hint answered! Supercharged!

The kit that I found, oddly enough, wasn't even known to Edelbrock - yet it was designed to fit the Edelbrock Magnum heads (3/8 stud mount, 1.6 SBC rockers).
Not supercharged!

Because wyrmrider sees things one way and circle dished pistons are made for serving up soup to eat.
If the Comp Cam isn’t a .904 specific lobe, your using the wrong cam. Etc....

Ah... I see. This build had all the companies involved and

You write for Chrysler Power? That place that has ans sells a new poly intake?

I wrote that one article for CP because Roland was a friend and we had been talking about installing his intake and running the car at Willow. I felt it was the least I could do... we had been making some plans, just never got around to it while he was in and out of the hospital.

 

[rumblefish360]

Not supercharged?!?! Dang! Thought I seen the road sign. RATS!

“Not known to Edelbrock” is something I can believe in. No matter how many eyes and ears to the ground and sky you have, there is always something that’s slips by. It happens.

Jomar.com will get me where I want to be for the
rockers?

I hope Roland is doing OK! Hospitals suck. Only because you don’t want to be there but, always grateful that they are there when you need them. I’d be dead a good four times over if it weren’t for those places. All hail the doc’s!

 

[65RoadRacer]

Not supercharged?!?! Dang! Thought I seen the road sign. RATS!

“Not known to Edelbrock” is something I can believe in. No matter how many eyes and ears to the ground and sky you have, there is always something that’s slips by. It happens.

Jomar.com will get me where I want to be for the
rockers?

I hope Roland is doing OK! Hospitals suck. Only because you don’t want to be there but, always grateful that they are there when you need them. I’d be dead a good four times over if it weren’t for those places. All hail the doc’s!

Oh boy... you have been out of the loop on CP. Hate to break the news but Roland Osborne passed away from cancer a little over a year ago. He had called me while in recovery... still pining to see his intake out at Willow Springs spanking Mustang boys. After he passed, I talked to his partner, Marty, and suggested we do an article for him since it was something he was real passionate about.

On the rockers: those are Comp Cams parts, Jomar Performance makes the rocker arm stud girdle for the Edelbrock Magnum heads. They private label some products and make a few others, lots of experience and interesting guys there. The stories they tell, and the knowledge they shared... enjoyed chatting with John over there.

 

[65RoadRacer]

A couple more pics of the LA build, I'm still waiting on some custom spacers and valve covers to clear the rocker arm stud girdles. I installed the Billet Specialities front drive this week, and it's a really nice kit. I needed a front drive that would stay within the profile of the engine for clearance purposes and how we're routing the exhaust. (hint, hint)

 

[cryplydog]

WOW 65, the bowtie boys and their pink rods ain't gonna like this!

 

[wyrmrider]

I'll try to get the cam specs for you soon... the heads use a 1.6 SBC stud mount rocker, and we're running [lower] compression for the second part of the build. hint hint

re: circle dished pistons/Edelbrock heads... why do you say "send them back"? these pistons were made for us by JE for this build.

It depends- the circle dish can work with a real tight quench distance and if the compression is way upup - good gas and at higher rpm
A step dish or a D Dish works better with lower compression builds, or bad gas as you get a squish effect and more turbulence, you also have the two cool surfaces and the narrow gap together to prevent detonation
which on a mopar usually starts away from the spark plug side (unless there are spark plug threads glowing or that kind of problem which should always be addressed
now on a race engine you can have the quench area too big- where that circle dish works- and where they claim that it does not make any difference as it will make the same horsepower. IT CAN
but not under a lower rpm load
anyway to much quench in a race engine can have so much squish together flow blast that it interferes with the combustion/ ignition
then you make the dish larger and shallower until you end up with what you have I usually ended up with about 3/4 inch quench D Dish
I think I have a couple of pistons I can send photos of if I can get to it and if anyone is interested
as I said you can make those pistons ok if you keep your quench real tight- and they are easier to make- but IDK nowdays with CNC
cheers
gtw what is your ch and how big a dish?
JE makes quality pistons

 

[65RoadRacer]

Not supercharged?!?! Dang! Thought I seen the road sign. RATS!

You do know you were really close, right?

 

[rumblefish360]

You do know you were really close, right?

Well, I didn’t want to keep on guessing over and over like throwing poop on the wall just to see what sticks! So, I’ll just keep tuned in and enjoy the show. Which I have.

By the way, this is a really nice engine you have going on here.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Post #13 somebody mocking up a turbo manifold? Red engine in back ground.

 

[rumblefish360]

Hey! I never did get your camp specs. Lift & @.050. Also, are the heads ported or box stock?

 

[65RoadRacer]

Post #13 somebody mocking up a turbo manifold? Red engine in back ground.

yeah, turbo big block taken out to be rebuilt... again... not sure what went wrong with that one.