Yeahrightgreer
Well-Known Member
Back to the basics. The age old question of power.
My motor is out of my 67 Satellite and checking the condition of the internals.
While it’s on a stand I thought about building a bit. For the past few months I had the idea of stroking to a 512”. While I have just enough $$$ to go through the parts, stroke kit, machine costs etc, I wouldn’t have enough to properly do all the other upgrades that come with much higher numbers. Dana 60, suspension, frame stiffening, trans etc etc. I then thought about a 6-71 blower on top of stock internals and running a very conservative amount of boost until I build the rest of the car but I’m not sure about the long term sustainability of a charger on stock internals. I am aiming for a strip/street car that will get a good amount of pounding on the streets. I don’t want to constantly be pulling the motor out in my barracks parking lot after blowing pistons because I didn’t properly regulate my boost.
Motor as it sits has 906 heads, M1 single plane Intake, 509 purple cam, 750 DP Holley, I believe it’s bored .030” over (I’ll measure the bore soon), 3 inch headers, 727, 4.10 gears. Id like good low end torque numbers and not so much high HP numbers for bragging rights. I’d be happy by getting towards an 11 second car, and with a ton of glass/lightweight parts and weight savings, capable of being 10 seconds.
Does anyone have any experience with a supercharger on a 440 on a street car? Better yet a stock one. I always hear rumors that “A guy told me that he met a guy once who’s cousin slapped a blower on his cast crank stock 440 and ran 9psi of boost for 20 years perfectly fine.” but have never actually heard any real world experience.
What type of combo set ups are a lot of you running? Where can I scrounge for power on a stoke stroke? Ditch the 906s and go for high flow Indy or Stealth heads? Cam suggestions for low end torque that will match my 4.10 gearing? I’d also like to run a tunnel ram for vintage looks but am I loosing anything over a lot of the good performing intakes like the tarantula?
This is mainly me brainstorming and trying to borrow some of y’all’s knowledge and experience where I lack it. If anyone knows any threads of stock stroke RB engine builds already please feel free to point me that way.
My motor is out of my 67 Satellite and checking the condition of the internals.
While it’s on a stand I thought about building a bit. For the past few months I had the idea of stroking to a 512”. While I have just enough $$$ to go through the parts, stroke kit, machine costs etc, I wouldn’t have enough to properly do all the other upgrades that come with much higher numbers. Dana 60, suspension, frame stiffening, trans etc etc. I then thought about a 6-71 blower on top of stock internals and running a very conservative amount of boost until I build the rest of the car but I’m not sure about the long term sustainability of a charger on stock internals. I am aiming for a strip/street car that will get a good amount of pounding on the streets. I don’t want to constantly be pulling the motor out in my barracks parking lot after blowing pistons because I didn’t properly regulate my boost.
Motor as it sits has 906 heads, M1 single plane Intake, 509 purple cam, 750 DP Holley, I believe it’s bored .030” over (I’ll measure the bore soon), 3 inch headers, 727, 4.10 gears. Id like good low end torque numbers and not so much high HP numbers for bragging rights. I’d be happy by getting towards an 11 second car, and with a ton of glass/lightweight parts and weight savings, capable of being 10 seconds.
Does anyone have any experience with a supercharger on a 440 on a street car? Better yet a stock one. I always hear rumors that “A guy told me that he met a guy once who’s cousin slapped a blower on his cast crank stock 440 and ran 9psi of boost for 20 years perfectly fine.” but have never actually heard any real world experience.
What type of combo set ups are a lot of you running? Where can I scrounge for power on a stoke stroke? Ditch the 906s and go for high flow Indy or Stealth heads? Cam suggestions for low end torque that will match my 4.10 gearing? I’d also like to run a tunnel ram for vintage looks but am I loosing anything over a lot of the good performing intakes like the tarantula?
This is mainly me brainstorming and trying to borrow some of y’all’s knowledge and experience where I lack it. If anyone knows any threads of stock stroke RB engine builds already please feel free to point me that way.