And I drive it , not a show or trailer queen . Only put 4000 miles this year though , lots of rain and a month and 1/2 hospital stay put a halt to driving . Next yer will be better , into the 12's and a few runs at the Mont Tremblant road course , want to see 165 mph on the back straight .
I think I know why , hit 7000 rpm by mistake ,not mistake more like pissed off and held it longer than I should of , after that run car never ran right , well was lacking on the upper end . Everything else looks fine , pistons ,cylinders , bearings , cam and old heads look fine . No damage , except for the bent push rods .
They are the 65cc heads same as the original heads (think I should put the 12.5 pistons I had in originally ? ) , that's what the shop ordered , if they don't make enough power on the dyno we will look at options . They have their Duster running 10.3 , who am I to argue with success ,they know more about this **** than I do so I follow their lead . Nothing written in stone . Depending on dyno results cam might be changed as well , very mild cam in it now , easy to change while out and testing . I am just aiming for super reliable street car that will run high 12's , and use cheaper gas , 94 octane is 20-30 cents a litre more than 89 octane 60+ litres a tank ads up .
I'm sure that the shop takes everything into account , they have been building winning mopars for 30+ years . I'll let you know how it does on the dyno , and if the weather cooperates he track .
It's strange for sure , everything looks great , nothing looks like there was a collision , valves , pistons all look perfect . The only thing I remember is it made a bit of noise at the end of the 7000 + rpm run and the car was lacking on the top end after that ,. I thought the cam went bad . I'll search some more once it's apart , but so far besides the bent rods nothing shows . 3 have a bit of a warp not that bad 1 is really noticeable , i saw it was bent just holding it , on the table it would not roll without a big push . I'll try to get pics of how bent the one is really bad .
Really hoping the alu heads will help with the detonation , worse comes to worse a little machine work is in order . That's the good thing with dyno testing , easy to make modifications if you are not happy with the results .
I'll ask about the heads , why he chose these , what is being done about quench area . These guys are pretty good so I'm sure it has all been done if it is needed , just not mentioned . I have forgotten so much over the years , been a good 20 years since I've played with cars , my tools and equipment are not the only things that got rusty
Edelbrock makes them for the early 340s that have the stock type pistons. Those pistons stick out of the block about .100" and would most likely collide with a closed-chamber head. Got the open-chamber Edelbrocks on my 340 with the stock type pistons and it runs great.
