Ahh, That's a bummer.

Yeah, might be a little much. Oh well.

An Edelbrock Performer intake be good, you think?

 

That is an excellent intake. With the carb you have it will wake up the bottom end, and probably give you a tad better gas mileage.

Add a set of headers, and it will really wake up

 

I'm hoping the set i've designed will fit, with minor tweaking. Gonna check this weekend.

 

I need to redo the right one, though, And change the #8 pipe so it'll clear the vacuum booster.

 

Do you have the small booster, or the one like the newer trucks have

 

I would classify that as an aggressive street cam. It has a lot of lift but its kinda short duration. A vacuum cam would make sure the brakes and heater have enough vacuum to work. Headers will tame it a bit to so it should work. I would like to see some head work and a tall double plane intake as well to make sure torque doesnt suffer.

What is the rear gear ratio?

 

Howdy all.

 

Looks like the ones in modern trucks, to me.


3.50:1.

I figured I might as well pull the heads and strip them down, do a little porting and polishing, and then lap the valves while I have both manifolds off.

 

The NASCAR race is in Martinville this weekend, whos going........

 

No NASCAR for me, Gerry.


Redid the right header. Primaries and secondaries are a little more even now.

 

Dev why don't you buy a set of headers

 

Where's the fun in that, Gerry?? These will yield better lower-end. I also won't have to unbolt the motor mounts or shield the starter with these. I'm hoping I'll be able to do these for under $300; need to figure out how many bends I'll have to order..

 

I'm not going, too far. Besides---crazy weather...it's 12* warmer here in NY than our place near Stuart.

 

Have you mocked one up with the yellow and blue tubes running full length and doing a 4 into 1 collector with an inner deflector? It doesnt look like it would be too hard to have them run side by side the other tubes.

If you want to stick with a tri-y instead of equal length, you may want to think about re-routing the tubes so that every other cylinder merges instead of 2 back to back. It helps with the scavenging because of the firing order.

So 1 - 3 merge and 2 - 4 merge then those to y's merge at the collector.

Please note, I am definitely not a header expert! Just remember reading some of that stuff in old hot rod and carcraft magazines.

 

Good Friday morning VA truckers, 2''more snow up here, I'm ready for summer .....