6.3 chevy-engined monster

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fett said:
is that a mopar 383 or a stroked chevy?

out of interest what was the gearbox and howd you make it fit?
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Small - block chevy with Eagle stroker kit and Edelbrock top end.

Gearbox is Stage 2 Ashcroft HP22 with massive torque convertor.

Adaptors for fitting were with the car - Originally Overfinch conversion.
 
Thor1950 said:
whats the HP???????? what about axles diffs and transfer case handling the HP
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The axles(half-shafts etc) were uprated by overfinch - however diffs were not - front diff now pinned - rear diff has LSD.

The transfer box is brand new with the later cross-drilled input and output bearings from Ashcroft - the original ones got starved of oil and that's why they began to whine after about 50000 miles.

The Torque convertor will take all the pressure so nothing more needed

As for bhp - engine not built for that - from memory (my engine builder has the power run figures) - 380 or so.

Torque is 450 at 3850 rpm with 300 from 1500.

I will speak to him and get the exact figures

That is the benefit of buying the full Edelbrock kit - heads, inlet, carb, roller rockers,camshaft, etc - it is all designed to run nicely together.

You can get cheaper stuff, but it doesn't match perfectly and requires a lot more fine-tuning.

After building this engine fired up first time, and he ran it at 2000 rpm for 20 minutes on the bench to bed the camshaft in - then he changed the oil, adjusted the carbs a bit and away she went for the dyno runs.

all of this meand that after 1000 miles in the car you just change the oil and then give it the full monty!

I won't be doing any off-roading - car owes me too much money - purely a hotrod to scare the locals and confuse boy racers.
 
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yeah pretty sweet, how much cash you got in that beast now then? :eek:

does he not need to bed in the rings as well as the cam? always amazes me how they do the dyno pulls on the new engines on yank Tv
 
fett said:
yeah pretty sweet, how much cash you got in that beast now then? :eek:

does he not need to bed in the rings as well as the cam? always amazes me how they do the dyno pulls on the new engines on yank Tv
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correctly honed bores should need very little ,we used running oil,how does the cam know its doing 2k
 
jamesmartin said:
correctly honed bores should need very little ,we used running oil,how does the cam know its doing 2k
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James

Go onto Edelbrock's website and all the videos are there about running-in etc

The reason they say 2000 rpm is to ensure the engine doesn't labour during this process - you can go higher of course.

You use a 20/50 running-in oil with super-high zinc content and Pauul uses a special cam lube as well.

the bores aren't an issue with modern ring quality and honing machines.

A lot of the old wisdom about running in is defunct due to the improvements in component quality and oil technology.

The only thing they then say is to not to run the engines at constant speeds for long periods (ie hours at a time without varying RPM) for the first few thousand miles.

Just following best practice I suppose - my engine man has built dozens of race V8s for the Santa Pod loonies so he should know what he is doing.

victor
 
I think the high rpms as soon as you start up thing is to take the load off the cam, at low rpms there is actually more load on the lobes because the followers spend more time on the love tops at any one time. That's what I heard anyway.

Lots of oil flow aswell I guess.

Running in is very exciting that's all I know :D
 
I used a comp cams additive to run mine up but on reading the blurb I'd say it was just a ZDDP additive really!

However it is worth it for a few quid, real steel sell it but of course there are others no doubt :)
 
Getting there fellas

took her over to exhaust man on the trailer - D-Day approaches
 

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update on the exhaust - all done and sounds AWESOME.

Deep deep lopey bass at idle(thank you Vic Edelbrock - great camshaft!) which gets louder up to 2000 revs then softens a little and smooths out at you go beyond 3000 rpm which will be great for high-speed cruising.

will try to get a You-Tube of it done today
 
griffman said:
update on the exhaust - all done and sounds AWESOME.

Deep deep lopey bass at idle(thank you Vic Edelbrock - great camshaft!) which gets louder up to 2000 revs then softens a little and smooths out at you go beyond 3000 rpm which will be great for high-speed cruising.

will try to get a You-Tube of it done today
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Epic :p
 
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