New 408 for the Flyfish

Hi All,

I’ve been building a new 408 stroker for my Barracuda over the past month (very slowly since I only have a few hours per weekend to work on it). I thought I should probably throw a post in here about it. It should be faster than the 410 that blew up 3 years ago (it ran a best of 10.5 @ 126mph, but usually ran 10.7’s)…I’m shooting for 10.4 on a regular basis…and MAYBE a 10.1 on a cool fall evening. Here is what I’m building:

· 360 block (all the usual prep)

· Scat forged 4” crank

· Scat I-beams

· Icon forged pistons with Total Seal file fit rings (~13:1 compression)

· Howards direct lube lifters

· Hughes 264/268 @ 0.05 solid cam, PAC springs

· My old Edelbrocks, stage II ported from Ryan Johnson @ ShadyDell

· Victor intake

· Home built e85 carb (750 ish dp)

This will be in my same car as before (727, 4.10 gears, mufflers, etc.), and street driven/bracket raced as before.

Even at my ridiculously slow pace, I should have this done and in the car by June…only missing the first 4 races of the season.

I’ll upload pictures soon.