That's a beautiful car. I might finally get around to doing that with my /6.
Thanks for the compliment! Most people just think it has two too many doors... LOL!:blob:
I like 2-doors, too, but this old car was available at a reasonable price ($700.00) and is only 25 pounds heavier than a 2-door post, so we just said, wotthehell... let's go for it. LOL!
I think it's a cheaper build than an equally-powerful small block, if you already have the /6 engine.
I may be talking through my hat about that, seeing as how it has not run yet, but if it runs anything like it
should, it would take a reasonably-strong N/A small block to outrun it.
The most expensive thing about the engine was the pistons (Wiseco forged) and rods (K-1, forged.)
The header cost us a lot, but needn't have; there are cheaper ways to do it than what we did.
The head, big valves, and porting are important, and relatively expensive.
Most other stuff is really not "that much" money; machine shop boring, crank-turning, balancing and a good valve job...
Most of the hardware on our engine is just stock slant six stuff.
The oil pump, water pump, distributor, and bearings are all stock.
It does have a "Bullet"-brand cam. Specs are 210/210 @ .050"-;ift with .484" total lift with stock pushrods and rocker arms. It is ground with 115-degrees of lobe separation. Very mild, with a stock-sounding idle.
The rerason for that is, these engines don't seem to like overlap... and, the way around that is, short-duration and wide lobe separation.
I'm only repeating what I have heard about the cams that are in the turbocharged engines in the cars that run the best. No personal experience here at all...
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For anything but an all-out race car, I am pretty sure that a stock torque converter would work great with one of these engines. They have loads of low-end torque, due to that mild cam.
I think you could put together an engine for not a lot of money, that would run low 12's on the street, in a 2,800-pound a-body.
I'd love to try it, but I'm a little busy with a previous project, right now... LOL!
Thanks for your interest!:cheers: