Ouch!! That's big? I'd imagine the blocks would have a fair amount of coin chucked into them to handle the HP they're after. MMMMM 496!

 

I run the low gear kit and love it. 1st/2nd gear reduction and 3rd 1 to 1. You can feel the engine rev differently with the low friction parts. I have a manual shift, reverse valve body and B/M pro ratchet shifter in my truck. Been running similar application for about 8 yrs or so. Once I got rid of the TCI converters my problems went away. Hughes xtm 43 really works nice but if you want to stall up to like 2000 they will work nice also. Mine is a 4wd and lower stall appliction and run up and down highway. I run on 40" hawgs and got 9.5 mpg running around 80mph about a week ago 800cfm 1:1 holley thought that was good transporting some 4wheelers on trailor for hunting. Truck really runs easy with carb set up cruising around 2900 to 3100 rpm. 472 bbf, air gap intake, 450 hrspwr. Looking at doing a quickfuel 850cfm vacume secondary with annulars. gonna have to get built by quickfuel to work in my application. Kinda pricey$$. calculating carbs. cubic inch x rpm x efficiency, divide by 3456 or 2820. If high end carb go 2820. 3456 is the standard for many yrs. On efficiency stock head is around .7 for calculations. 408 x 4000rpm x .7= 1142400, divide (2820) 405 cfm. If heads ported nice and hyd roller around .9 to .93 on calculation ball park on carb calculations. I tend to run a little bigger carb with annulars for 4wd and works nice. I do cubic inch x 2 = ? 408 x 2= 816 cfm and annulars seems to work decent for me but their is some tuning in metering plates and jetting which isn't difficult for me but can be for some others. I'm rambling and will catch you guys later.

 

doesnt tim meyer sell a stroker kit?

\http://www.tmeyerinc.com/

 

yup, discussed earlier in the thread.

 

nice site barnett cool stuff. nice knowing they are out their.