opinions welcome on build.

Thank you ALL for the replys, has turned into a good, thought provoking thread. Again, car will be a cruiser, and see time at 1/4 mile strip. Must drive to and hopefully from. Originally was keeping 3.31 stroke, drag cam and 850/950 hp carb. I now want and am using e.f.i, therefore the 106-108 l.s.a cams are out. (need 9-10" of vacuum) still will be big lift 240ish duration i hope. Will be custom. The heads have long valves etc: So, as stated, am going to add stroke. The 4" stuff looks easy and reasonable. Not seeing a lot of 3.79" stuff, or matching 6.250" rods with 4.00" stroke, 4.070" bore pistons. I posted on 318 cams thread. I will be using a 8 3/4, 3.91 suregrip i bought. Again, thanks to everybody!!


If you buy a custom cam, you will be far, far ahead. On 340 inches I run 255 at .050 on a 105 LSA installed at 105 and I get almost 10 inches of vacuum at an 800 RPM idle.

I would try and get all the power you can and opening the LSA for no reason other than to try and get idle vacuum up isn't one of them. You should be able to do that without compromising cam timing.