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[Garrett Ellison]

Oh

I have a pair of Speedmasters and a roller Teen block. I thought a 390 would be fun.

Oh Yeah, good luck getting traction! I'm surprised there aren't more B body small block strokers.

 

[toolmanmike]

I have a pair of Speedmasters and a roller Teen block. I thought a 390 would be fun.

Waiting for Speedmaster to come out with a stroker kit and put it on a 40% off Black Friday Sale!

 

[toolmanmike]

Oh

Oh Yeah, good luck getting traction! I'm surprised there aren't more B body small block strokers.

Those guys are so stuck on their wedge motors. If you have a 65 with a 361 it has to have a 440. (or a 512) I want a 64 Dodge and would be more than happy with a 273 or a Poly.

 

[rumblefish360]

Most B body guys see there rides as heavy pigs that NEED a big block and there is none better than a 440 being it is the biggest.

While a B body can get a bit fat, I see a lot of the B body crowd cry and whine over there cars weight @ 3600 (+or-) as if the world is beating them up.

I run a stock 5.9 long block backed by a 727 & 3.55’s on 26-1/2 tires in my ‘79 B body Magnum with no complaints to it’s performance at all. The cars weight as listed on the reggie is 3675 lbs. Adding a 440 & a 727 adds a significant amount of weight, the performance potential is obviously much greater, but is it needed for a cruiser? They think so. I disagree.

By way of aluminum intake and headers, getting ride of what is not needed, A/C and a lot of wiring to the tune of approximately 10 lbs., the car just gets lighter and lighter.

For a pure driver, a stock 318 would be fine and one with some bolt on parts and a cam would be just great.

 

[mopardude318]

I have a pair of Speedmasters and a roller Teen block. I thought a 390 would be fun.

Oh please Kind Sir, use a solid cam with 273 rockers!

 

[toolmanmike]

Oh please Kind Sir, use a solid cam with 273 rockers!

I bought a set of the Speedmaster Stainless roller tip rockers but I'm not nuts about the geometry.

 

[Garrett Ellison]

There are some nice Crane replacement roller lifters for these blocks. If I went with a hydraulic roller, I wouldn’t even bother with any shelf cams. I spoke with Ken Heard at Oregon Cam grinders recently on behalf of a friend and they have some hydraulic roller grinds that could really take advantage of a set of those head. Even more so if they’re of the CNC variety. And you can send them your old stock core if you don’t care to run a wide LSA. For $159 or so, I can tolerate about anything for a good regrind. Bullet/Ultradyne also shows some good lobe profiles on their master list, too.