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B, RB and Hemi all use the same water pump housing so you don't need to just look for a B housing.

I built billet valley pans. The AR182A with the AR392 batwing gasket holders would work for that application. I designed them for Trick Flow heads but they'll work with the Edelbrock heads as long as you are using a single plane intake. Valley Plates | AR Engineering

If you read the last three issues of Mopar Action you'll see that I've covered this topic once again but in a slightly different way. These days I'm using a 470 low deck stroker as my dyno mule and I tested both single pattern as well as a dual pattern cam in it. The 470 has Trick Flow heads on...

I did a fair amount of cam testing with a big block that had exhaust manifolds. The best cam was the Mopar .528 solid which is a single pattern cam. What I found was that the engine was very sensitive to duration and overlap. If you had too little duration the engine made a lot of torque down...

It is possible that the hyd lifters are pumping up at 5000 rpm. We had a BB Mopar with hyd lifters on the dyno the other day and it wouldn't pull past 5000 rpm. If the springs and rocker arm ratio are over powering the lifters then they will start having issues at higher speed.

You can do anything you want if you have the time, money and tools. If you're a little short on one or more of those then it gets harder. I did my first engine swap when I was 16 years old. I had a 1956 F-100 pickup truck and I bought a 351C engine out of a Mustang in a wrecking yard and figured...

Yeah, hard to go wrong with the RPM intake on anything that is mostly street driven. I learned that lesson years ago with the low deck 470 in my '65 Coronet. The RPM made a lot more torque which you could feel around town. The Victor made a little bit more top end power but the RPM would still...

I haven't seen the new Trick Flow intake yet but I'm hoping that they did a quick CNC port match on it. I asked them if they were going to do a port match but I never got a response. Guess I'll find out when my new intake shows up.

Nothing wrong with that cam for a street car. The 512 low deck in my street car uses a 236@050 hyd roller cam. Nice smooth idle and wall to wall torque. It still makes enough power to put a fully loaded B body into the high 11's at the track so it isn't a slouch, but it runs smooth enough that I...

Interesting problem with your distributor. I haven't had to rework a reluctor for a long time! What does the port match look like on your intake manifolds? On my 470 none of the intakes I had on hand were close in terms of port matching. Engine still made 685 hp with mis-matched ports but I'm...

I just got my new cam from Crane. It is 282 duration and .890 lift. After reading that article from Hughes I'm worried that it might be too big.

One thing I learned by working with a cam designer is that the lash value is determined by the ramp design. So the lash is determined by the ramp that the designer uses. I also found out that the lash spec depends on the rocker arm ratio. So if you have a cam that is speced at 0.020 lash with...

Well on one hand a T ram can be made to work really well on a car like this but on the other hand I've seen a lot of eff'd up tunnel ram installs! I'd highly recommend starting with a small cam and working your way up the food chain. This is assuming that the OP doesn't have much tuning...

Yes. Quench is important.

Can't tell you unless you know which pistons are in the engine and what the deck height was set at. If you don't know that information then you'll have to pull a cylinder head off to see how the engine was built. If the engine has flat top or dished pistons and the pistons are set at close to...

I wrote an entire book about performance big block motors. It has several complete build guides in the later chapters. Amazon sells the book for less than $20.

Edelbrock RPM heads are the best solution for most street/strip type motors. You have to be fairly serious racer before you need anything better than the RPM head.

Maybe, depends on the lash. You're very close to the edge so double check everything.