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Originally Posted by 65Custom
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Thanks!
I got the engine torn down last night. The cylinders had a touch of rust around the rings but nothing that won't clean up when its bored. The crank journals look pretty good and I can't catch any scratches/gouges with my fingernail. I used a set of numbered dies to mark the main bearing caps and the main webs in the block to keep track of their orientation before taking them off, definitly didn't want those getting mixed up. The lifter bores look really good and the lifters were nice and tight in the bore. I had been looking into putting a solid roller cam in it, but I've only found one company that will custom make them, and listed the price as "call for price". That usually means $$$$$ so I'll probably stick with solid flat lifters. Hoping for 375+ horsepower, does that seem doable with this combination of parts?
Plans for it so far include:
Bore the block enough to clean up the cylinders.
Balanced stock crank.
Lighten the flywheel.
Eagle forged 4340 rods, 5.7"
Forged pistons, haven't found any "off the shelf" yet.
Head bolt boss removed from intake port, lump port kit installed.
Larger valves, ported heads, decked for more compression.
Block decked for .040-.050 quench.
13:1ish compression (will be running E85, 105 octane)
Solid flat cam, wanting it to pull to around 7000-7200 rpm.
Comp Cams Aluminum roller rockers, 1.75 ratio.
ARP main and head stud kit.
Triple Weber/Dellorto 2 barrel side draft carbs
6 into 1 header, single 3" exhaust, magnaflow/dynomax straight through muffler?
