Time for new engine

lemonboy69 said
Yikes... thanks for the heads up! I was thinking of taking my '74 440 .060" over... maybe I'll just stick to .040" over and keep it safe. It's getting a stroker kit anyways, so MORE power!!

Off topic and out of curiousity - how much does your Duster weigh? I'm looking to put my '67 Fastback into the 10's... any thoughts?

Before I switched the 8 3/4 to a Dana 60, ladder bar/leaf spring set-up, and added a factory alternator, the car with me in it weighed 3398. I haven't weighed it since these additions so I'm guessing just over 3500 lbs race weight. The car is all steel with the exception of the front bumper.

Plans for the new engine are just that right now. I just dug out one of my spare blocks which is a standard bore '68. Taking it to the machine shop to get cleaned and magged. The rotating assembly in the other engine is still fine but I don't want to take the new block +.060 the first time out. So i will just put this stuff on the shelf. I'm thinking 4.150 crank, good rods and CP pistons. A partially filled block, aluminum main caps, just a good reliable set-up. Gonna have to use the old heads,cam, etc for now because of the sizeable investment in the short block.

Or I could just bore the new block .060 and bolt it all back together and be done in a couple of weeks for cheap. Decisions, decisions,decisions

This kinda sucks because this engine has fresh resized/bolts Direct Connection rods, bearings,rings,oil pump, chain, valve springs and seals. All only has 69 1/8 mile runs and a few 1/4 mile.