Holley made a Street Dominator for the 400M and it bolted right up. The only issue would have been if I had used the 4V Cleveland head as no one made a manifold for that due to the port size but spacers were availible to mount 351C manifolds on the 400M that I assume could have been machined to the correct port size.
Ok. I know Cleveland's and modified's look a lot alike but I never had any parts side by side so I didn't know what would interchange and what wouldn't.
That Fireball was a bad *** cam. I also used a Crane roller rocker stud mount retro-fit kit that went 40-45K miles with zero problems. I bet I still have pics of that engine and Torino somewhere.... I'll post a pic if I can find them. That Torino really did handle well at speed. Better than any car I ever owned. I can understand why they were used in NASCAR racing.
I must've blasted right by your place! :-D Things were quite a bit cooler then compared to now. 8) That highway was empty at the time and I was behind a guy in a mid-70's Riviera who was cruising at about 110. After about 20 miles I thought I'd see if he wanted to go, but he was just making time and waved me ahead. :) It was my own short version of "Vanishing Point" without the drugs, lol. I don't know if it was the Grace of God, but I never saw a single cop until I got close to Chi town. 8) BTW I would never, ever do that again and please all, don't try this at home or you'll end up on the news. :toothy10:
Your exactly right. There weren't nearly as many cars on the road back then. That's a big factor now. Just too much traffic to even think about doing something like that now. I'm lucky enough to be out in the country that has some real good smooth back roads that are straight and flat for a couple miles so I have a place to test stuff that's fairly safe. I, like you, don't recommend this to anyone though. I know I shouldn't be doing it but I have no other way to test things. Just have to be real careful. If anybody's on the road I don't run it. Just let the traffic completely clear first. People are so sue happy it's not worth the risk. Torino's were sleek cars. Them old Riviera's ran pretty good too for big boats. I had a 73 that didn't run bad. Only problem with Buick's was they cracked the heads so easy if you overheated it.
