Stroker Smallblock cost

Yep thats what I am talking about too! I did trans, rear end, major suspension, frame etc. years ago to the car. But the engine still cost a lot more. I can build a bullet proof 727 - the convertor for less than $500. Yes it you need aluminum or steel drums and a few other race only parts you can get $1500-2000 easy in a 727. And you need gears, non-breakable driveshaft, etc. Tires oh yeah!

The Demonitator makes great points here, but the thread was how much $$$$ for a stroker.

I love that guys such as A/MP can run 11's with a good 360. It kills me though that I have a freind that says his stock full smog 2005 mustang runs 12's, and then I get a guy on another Mopar board telling me after all that is going into my 64 Dart with a 500+ small block, 727 trans, 3k stall and 3.91 with 25" tall tires will only run 12's! maybe with the secondarys wired shut. What an insult.

Hell, my friend Bruce when we were kids in 76 had a TA 340 6 pack his dad cosigned for him. I dialed in the distributor and carbs. We put a decent set of hooker headers on it and 2 1/2 calif turbo mufflers. This was all we did, stuffed H50 15 tires with Mickey T's with 12 lbs air and the car with a 4 gear and factory 3.91 ran 11.82 at best. The I built a 440 for my buddy Rick's 66 Satalite that only had a 3.23 posi, went throught the lights at 117mph in 2nd gear! So when I build a car with more than 100HP more and 1000 lbs less weight I know we are talking at least low 11's. Yes it would take 4.56 and bigger tires I feel to do 10's. Very low ETs are made out of the gate.

So many people always talk so much crap about stuff. I grew up with these 396 malibu clowns, boss 302 mustangs etc. I wasted them in my Dart. But yeah I put a lot of $$$ in everything. The heart is a great engine, but you have you have the whole package. I think it can be for 10k or so if you want 11's of faster.

So I think we all understand that the D man is correct, you can make a lot of power but you gotta get to the ground.. OH and you better have good brakes too...

My bottom line, I used to run this car at what was one of the best oval tracks in the world for a time, now there is shopping mall. And you dont take a stock 64 Dart and go 140MPH + in the turns, keep the pedal to the metal and live at 7500-8000 rpms on a cast crank and stock rods. But that aside, I like the fact that we can build these high torque engines, make a ton of power like a big block, and not have to get exotic with parts that need to hold together at 8000 rpms etc just to make power.

It also is something that even todays NASCAR guys are slower than we ran 30 years ago. To many restrictions and gimicks. It was all about cubic inches, always will be. I now have 50% more displacment than the 273 +.040= 280, now I am at 416. It is like having; can you even imagine a 413 crossram in an A body! Then making waking it up even more. These are all very nasty cars we are building guys. I am proud to be a Mopar guy and a minority among car people.

Man I love bracket racing and street racing. I'm sorry guys, just a guy on another board got my goat yesterday. Guess it is the same as my sportster with buell s1 heads cams etc that runs 10s and the rice rocket people say no way!


Anyway back to the man topic, sorry. I think in the range of at least 6k to build a good stroker that will hold toghter, add another 2k to make it a 600 hp and up, then there is the rest of the car too.

Take car guys, see ya around and I will get the time slips when I am done! :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: