I have the race engine from my brother's Duster Super Stock car, circa 1979-1986. I finally have a chance to tear it down and see what's inside. My friend is going to bring up his deck height measuring set-up when he visits in another week so by then I should have most of the parts out. Here's the car it was in:
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Jim Harris, on Flickr
It's W2 heads, 3870810 casting, with flat pads for the rocker pedestals. The rockers look very beefy, just like machined from billet. The pedestals are equally beefy.
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The Holley Strip Dominator has doublers welded over the flanges to make them twice as thick.
It's an X-block with splayed four-bolt 2-3-4 mains.
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I have no idea yet what kind of cam spec it is but I'm guessing pretty stout.
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It looks to be in pretty good condition, no evidence of any blow-ups.
So I'm not really interested in selling this engine, at least not yet, but I'm thinking of de-tuning it a bit. Lower CR, smaller cam, steel rods... Any suggestions?
Thanks - Jim
