| Re: Engine swap on the C1 |
Subject: Re: Engine swap on the C1 by wesmigletz on 2008/11/16 6:55:36 JSUP, the guy who responded mentioned a 332 going 10.70s with 291 heads. Not particularly impressive for a race car. Our car's a street car, and was driven cross-country, raced at Beechbend, and drove back, without missing a beat. My car is what it is... a dished-pistoned, 3.36 geared, 1800 stall 12 second street car, that idles with 18" of vacuum at 800 RPM and has no problem with the LA traffic during my 3 hour round-trip work commute. With more compression, more cam, and more stall, I'd be in the 10s too... that's not what I want. I'm going to stay naturally aspirated, so that pretty much leaves heads and a roller cam as my best options... BTW, the Dart 180 heads were not purchased for the Vette, I got them for my 72 Truck's 383 this past December. I'm putting the 383 in the Vette for a while to keep it on the road. It will be this engine's second time to go in the Vette... I swap engines like CFOT changes their underwear. I pulled it out of the truck two years ago, and put it in the Vette to make the anti-tour. Since then, I re-ringed the 383. I added the Engle HR cam and Dart heads today. I'll drop it tomorrow, and barring the unexpected, I'll be driving it tomorrow. BTW, I posted the flow numbers, but I wasn't complaining about them. My dissatisfaction was with the actual size of the runners and the chambers. |
