Good call on the rods. That is a weak link. We have pushed 425 from a SB Chevy with stock reciprocating parts in the past and beat on them but a solid summer and the bearings told the truth. The stock rods have a fuse.
Main webs shouldn't be an issue but the rods can be somewhat hit & miss just depends how they may have previously been abused.
Brother I'm such a square, I don't even know what a hooka is and no idea what Ravi Shankar is about...will have to look it up
Beatles era stuff.
Yeah and we know that mad scientist is going to abuse it like a rented mule.
That you will be spinning this up well past the 4800 safe zone for stock stuff (yes 5500 is the high water mark) to make those power figures that is where the rod caps cry out in pain. Even with new ARP rod bolts you are still pulling on the rod caps.
Indeed. I know it adds up quick but yes, reliability has a price.
Yeah it will, but I've been pretty impressed with how much people have been able to squeeze out of those stock components. He is starting with a pretty high mileage unit if I remember right though.
Yeah I would definitely want to throw some pistons and rods in it at that point. If you do the ball hone try to find a scrap block somewhere to do some test runs. Figure out speed and how fast to go to get a good looking pattern
Just as a reference, in the past we just chucked in a 1/2" drill and held the trigger about half speed and make full passes in/out smooth and consistent. It doesn't take much but try to make equal passes in/out of each cylinder.
Sounds like a plan.
OH this is one of those pictures that if you look "thru" it you see the pod of whales frolicking in the lagoon that has a sailing yacht crewed by a bunch of midget strippers with CM at the helm.
If you're putting down 400 rwhp you should be wondering "is this the run". I know several serious autocrossers that are running 450ish chp in a stock block and it's not a matter of "IF" they split the block neatly in two, it's a matter of "WHEN". Seen it done twice at major divisional events and once at nationals. Mucks up the course pretty good, especially when some moron ties onto the car and drags it back thru half the course just to make sure ALL of the oil has dripped out of the remains onto the course.
Yeah I believe you're onto something here JB, seems to me they had a 50 ounce damper/flywheel arrangement and whatever the other was. I'd almost bet a 1/2 gallon of Blue Bell ice cream he's got a bastardized combo there.
Both the balancer and flywheel have been replaced. I know they're both 28oz models.
The others are right there were two different flywheels. But I'm inclined to agree that hitting the shift perfect shouldn't change that if the combo was wrong.
About 1980 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was running a cult in Washington State where he was having wealthy yuppies fund his "vow of poverty". When it all came crashing down, the assets that he accumulated were auctioned. He had a fleet of Rolls Royce and Bentley cars. Many of them had extreme graphics like on that Mustang.
