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After a lot of thinking and the future use of my car is going to hopefully wind up daily. As I'm lookimg for a local gig driving a truck. I'm currently over the road and rarely home. So I wish to select a combination that is driver friendly.
Driver friendly with a 360 I'm thinking is about 350 or so horsepower. I have broken it down to two options. Buying a pair of eq heads from Midwest out of Vegas bare and having my local cylinder head shop out fit them. Using my intake valves from my magnum heads, new exhaust valves and etc.
The other option is to buy some completely assembled the heads with the 2.02 valves from imm engines. More money and i can afford it. But at this level I wonder if going this route will help me any. Or possibly hurt the motor down low. I'm very green about all this stuff.
As a side note if anyone wishes to comment a lunatic voodoo roller can is what I'm considering, 270/278. Smaller cam than my last muscle car but the next one bigger sounds to big. I would rather be a little under cammed than over camed.
What I'm going by is my last muscle car was an old camaro, 327 Chevy and a magnum 280 hydraulic cam. Bigger cam in every way except lift. Had plenty of bottom end torque. Drove that thing every day for almost ten years. Smaller stroke engine to than the Mopar. Highway gears with a manual trans. 2.70's or 3.00's I suppose. Whatever they were it didn't turn a lot of rpms on the freeway. But took off hard from down low. Never felt over cammed at all to me.
My Mopar weighs about the same as the old camaro. About 2800 lbs I have read. Its an old 1969 valiant. Running an auto transmission and gonna get a correct converter for my set up. Also wish to replace the rear end and when I do I'm looking at running 3.23 to 3.55. In that range.
So opinions appreciated on which heads for my set up. And about my cam choice. As you can see I'm just going by how my last car worked for me. And that's about it.
Driver friendly with a 360 I'm thinking is about 350 or so horsepower. I have broken it down to two options. Buying a pair of eq heads from Midwest out of Vegas bare and having my local cylinder head shop out fit them. Using my intake valves from my magnum heads, new exhaust valves and etc.
The other option is to buy some completely assembled the heads with the 2.02 valves from imm engines. More money and i can afford it. But at this level I wonder if going this route will help me any. Or possibly hurt the motor down low. I'm very green about all this stuff.
As a side note if anyone wishes to comment a lunatic voodoo roller can is what I'm considering, 270/278. Smaller cam than my last muscle car but the next one bigger sounds to big. I would rather be a little under cammed than over camed.
What I'm going by is my last muscle car was an old camaro, 327 Chevy and a magnum 280 hydraulic cam. Bigger cam in every way except lift. Had plenty of bottom end torque. Drove that thing every day for almost ten years. Smaller stroke engine to than the Mopar. Highway gears with a manual trans. 2.70's or 3.00's I suppose. Whatever they were it didn't turn a lot of rpms on the freeway. But took off hard from down low. Never felt over cammed at all to me.
My Mopar weighs about the same as the old camaro. About 2800 lbs I have read. Its an old 1969 valiant. Running an auto transmission and gonna get a correct converter for my set up. Also wish to replace the rear end and when I do I'm looking at running 3.23 to 3.55. In that range.
So opinions appreciated on which heads for my set up. And about my cam choice. As you can see I'm just going by how my last car worked for me. And that's about it.
