I was at work on my lunch break I wanted to make a post to help get me thinking. I did do a search and that one didn't come up. I may have been to specific in my search. But now that I see it I do remember reading it before a week ago or so.
Anyways I can use that as a idea of what I need. But since 500 horsepower is so easy I might get a little greedy and want more. 530 horsepower would get me close to the same power-to-weight ratio as the Hellcat Challenger.
I had the idea to modernize the 440. I want to fuel inject it. Then I read about the articles that they are doing just that in Mopar Action Magazine. So coil on plug has me thinking now to.
I don't want to stroke it, I would like to keep the cubic inches down to help with fuel economy. Not expecting amazing MPG, but I am keeping that in mind so can pass a gas station every now and then. And will be using 3.23 rear gears.
What I have is a 1978 stock short block, so its has a cast crank. Needs to be bored out, It has been sitting in the garage for over 10 years, and there is a coating of rust on the bores and the decks.
Would like to use aluminum heads, hydraulic roller cam, HD stamped steel rockers (lightweight), 0 deck the block for quench, around 10.0:1 compression.
Should I recondition the stock rods or get new ones? Will the factory cast crank survive?
