I got my 1947 Dodge truck running again and with an engine I built for a 3/4 ton Chevy that sits in the drive way.
355" flat tops ported 305 heads 1.84-1.50 valves and 230@ .050 cam Comp 280H .480" lift and I advanced it a lot for more low end TQ to get the heavy Chevy rolling.
I am running a cast iron Q jet intake that I plenum ported and a 600 Edelbrock and HEI distributor.
Nothing fancy at all but it is respectable With TH350 and 3.89 rear gears.
The guy that beat up on me today was the owner Of Willhoite's cams.
He grinds all my camshafts.
He has a Chevy short bed 1986 Truck with Posi and 3.73 gears 3200 stall 4L80E and 6.2 LS built by some of his buddies in TX.
Camshaft is over .620" lift.
From a roll or dead stop he beat me.
He has about 5 car lengths on me at the end which is good for between 1/2 and 3/4 of a second.
That is a lot to make up.
Good thing this engine was not supposed to be a hot rod deal just a good Pulling TQ engine with 10.62 compression.
I was running my Goodyear wranglers 235-75-15 and he had his Nitto 555RII drag radials 325-50-15
Not that it would have mattered he kept pulling away.
Can't win em all.
I do not like the small LS engines but these 6.0 and 6.2 and larger ones impress me.
355" flat tops ported 305 heads 1.84-1.50 valves and 230@ .050 cam Comp 280H .480" lift and I advanced it a lot for more low end TQ to get the heavy Chevy rolling.
I am running a cast iron Q jet intake that I plenum ported and a 600 Edelbrock and HEI distributor.
Nothing fancy at all but it is respectable With TH350 and 3.89 rear gears.
The guy that beat up on me today was the owner Of Willhoite's cams.
He grinds all my camshafts.
He has a Chevy short bed 1986 Truck with Posi and 3.73 gears 3200 stall 4L80E and 6.2 LS built by some of his buddies in TX.
Camshaft is over .620" lift.
From a roll or dead stop he beat me.
He has about 5 car lengths on me at the end which is good for between 1/2 and 3/4 of a second.
That is a lot to make up.
Good thing this engine was not supposed to be a hot rod deal just a good Pulling TQ engine with 10.62 compression.
I was running my Goodyear wranglers 235-75-15 and he had his Nitto 555RII drag radials 325-50-15
Not that it would have mattered he kept pulling away.
Can't win em all.
I do not like the small LS engines but these 6.0 and 6.2 and larger ones impress me.