I've just gotten back from having a bit of a play... took one of my mates for a ride, now, to me the acceleration is good (Damn good infact), not quite sport bike rip your arms out of your socket good (I'm spoiled by the insane warpdrive effect of a 500cc two stroke roadbike...
), but every time i dropped it back a gear and mashed it, he looked like
I really need to replace that HEI module.... bloody missfire under load...
Next on my list is a 3.25 9" with a posi.... I wanna do highway trips with this thing, and it'd have abso-fuggin-loutely *NO* traction with 4.11s....
I just can't believe the way it pulls!
There were one or two ricers that had a closer look, but i musta scared them off cos they didn't want to play....
Azza, yeah HP not Kw mate :D
I used the CHI manifold milled down to 6.25" (they're 7" normally)
Bottom end? its a motor that I bought out of a lightly written off XC, sold the Heads to Neeeek. When I first looked into the innards of the motor i thought I got stung, but each time we look harder we find more nice stuff done to it... Fur instance, its got non stock rods. They're I beams, but not ford items, didn't look close enough to see what they are though. They'd been ground and balanced, everything balanced... so smooth.... It had long skirt Hypertec brand flat top pistons, (hypereutectic i spose, shhh. don't tell Davis
), the block wasn't decked, so the compression isn't insane, Its basically a pre-run-in bottome end that had some $$ spent on it when it was built, maybe 8-10,000km before i got it... 4MA crank... Scorpion Roller rockers....1
Brenx, yeah, awesome investment... just gotta baby the diff (Borgy) and driveshaft (XF 6 cyl!) for a little while... any bets on whats gunna go first?
FPV, these things have every right to become popular!... just the heads/intake/extractors changed to transform a cooking 351 to an animal! (previous owner said something about 350hp at the fly on an engine dyno.... it had "why-trys" and a Edelbrock "Non-Performer" manifold, so i'd guess at 320 flywheel tops... say 130+hp in the heads and intake/exhaust? Was massively lean with the original jetting in the 750 Vac...
These things are just so impressive..... the power delivery is so smooth...
And they're light enough that with the 16:1 steering box its not too bad to park (my powersteering sprung a leak again, so I chopped the belt to save the pump)
All I can say is a BIG thanks to John at CHI for coming up with a monster street head..... its so docile with the cam thats in it till you lean on it a bit!
Ben
Sorry bout the long post, I'm just so stoked!
302 and 6cyl run the same tailshaft and I know a few people still running them behind high hp engines without a single issue.
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