Engine decking issue(help)
We have a Dart block here right now. Dart heads and intake. The machine work from dart was far from being correct. Try and tell the owner of this motor that it is cheap to build a SB chevy. Nothing is bolt on just like every other brand. We do go racing , With every motor he works on he gets the pride of the build at the track.
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That's what most people don't get. Once you get past using junkyard parts, the Chevy is about the same to build as anything else, money wise.
The issue is, you can't buy a block for the Chrysler stuff. If you can, you get one vendor, and if you have to do so much as brush hone the mains for clearance, the Chrysler guys blow a bolt, go berserk and stomp their feet that they got screwed.
I have never ever bought a block, from any vendor, GM, Ford or Chrysler that didn't need machine work. Ever.
You can barely get cylinder heads for the Chrysler. Why? The aftermarket knows to make power with LA architecture, you MUST use an offset rocker.
Well, **** the bed. That rules out 98% of the guys who will buy that head. IDK who all these people were using W2 stuff back in the 80's but I only saw a few guys doing it here in the NW, and I was one of them. The reason...I ain't buying rockers, I can't use my intake and my headers won't fit.
That's why, when the rumor hit that Dick Maskin at Dart was looking at building a SBM I laughed my *** off. He's a business man. It doesn't matter that Bob Book can take the Chrysler platform and make more power than GM or Ford stuff. Doesn't matter. The volume isn't there.
David Nickens told me, personally, he made more power with the dodge, and made it quicker than he ever had with GM architecture. He and several other Pro Stock truck racers went to a meeting at Chrysler. They wanted to make some slight changes to the front and sides of the pick up body, as the aero was horrid compared to the Ford and Chevy stuff. Chrysler said we don't care if you win. We want you so qualify, and get on TV with what looks exactly like what we sell (this was 1999 and what did well on Sunday would still sell on Monday although many retards say that isn't so) and represent the brand.
He was dumbfounded. He said he could put most any engine he had in a GM bodied chassis and qualify number 1 almost every weekend.
Again, Chrysler not being on track. All for nothing though, as NHRA killed the class. If you can't tell, I'm still pissed about that PST far outclassed PS car in many ways.
Ok...rant off. For now. But to do competitive horsepower, it's never cheap, you can't buy the parts off the shelf, and you touch every single part, every single time.
