408 stroker build sheets

Cam needs to be custom for your CID. They say spending $1 on the heads is like spending $3 on the shortblock.

Put 360 parts on a 408 and you'll run 360 ETs.

Stock Eddies limit the potential of a 360, much less a 408. My 5.9 can use more than its current 750 carburetor.

Your shortblock was probably fine, just your intake setup needed work. If you're building a new one, start with a hydraulic roller block and get a roller cam.

My all steel, full interior, bench seat car runs 11.70s and 113 mph with a junkyard Durango shortblock, with iron heads.

Made 330 rwhp though..

A buddy's Ford stuff, but you'll get the idea.
Fox Mustang - 408 (351W stroker), ported Trick Flow heads, hydraulic roller camshaft, 950 HP, Super Victor intake, 1-3/4 header, 3" exhaust. He drives it on the Power Tour/Drag Week, runs 10.00 @ 120+.

Everybody likes to choke their strokers with parts intended for much smaller engines and ends up running numbers they could have gotten from a ring and bearing rebuild on a 340/360.

If you change up the motor a lot, you should also get the converter restalled.

My .02

Steve