Project "Iron Man" underway.

I would get a cheap used aluminum duel plane....dont waste your time grinding on a stock iron one..

138 wrote:I would get a cheap used aluminum duel plane....dont waste your time grinding on a stock iron one..

I know, this project is to see what I can do with the factory stuff. I am more or less gasket matching and smoothing out the ruff areas. I am spending the money for the A-headded beast so I rather be buying stuff for that.

That cam is a solid flat tappet That is the biggest one... here is the other one I was looking as well, it's smaller too.

ADV 277/284
@.050 243/251
LSA/ICL 110/104
LIFT .608/.611

OF course I am still keeping the idea of building my own cam. I love how I can browse this forum and read what people build and see results, and with all the information from a lot of people I can get good ideas on how to setup a motor. I built the last cam in my SCJ motor and I got almost a tenth faster and another 2mph with a nitrous built cam from the N/A cam.

Okay, aside of camshaft selection. I have the shortblock reassemblied with new rod and main bearings, A full gasket kit sitting in the truck. I also have a new hi-volume oil pump. I even went out to repaint the block the orginal color, old ford blue. I squirted some aluminum paint on the intake manifold. as well as the heads when I get them. The valve covers are orginal blue as well I need to post some pics so far. I have done everything in house. I have decided on the camshaft I am going to break down and build my camshaft for this thing, after all I want this to be a decent setup.

Get the Lemster to get a cam

to big a cam for what your doing....

I think that 1 3/4" headers are "marginal" at best, and would definitely be a "bottle neck" to future power improvements. Your headers should be at least 1 7/8" / 2".

Wayne (SAWDOFF) Pearce

Wayne Pearce wrote:I think that 1 3/4" headers are "marginal" at best, and would definitely be a "bottle neck" to future power improvements. Your headers should be at least 1 7/8" / 2".

Wayne (SAWDOFF) Pearce

So weather a big block is all stock or modded it still would require good size headders? Thanks for the tip because I wanna redo the exhaust on my F350 sometime in the next 100yrs.

dfree383 wrote:

Tennessee Bullitt wrote:Ok here is what I have so far.....

I'm looking at some early style C8,C9,Dove heads doing my port work with the stock valves, Thanks Mr Hobbs.
Keeping the iron 4 barell dual plane manifold, with some port work.
Running a holley 750 carb.
New rod and main bearings in the shortblock
Building some 1 3/4 in shorty or mid length headders.
Lunati cams, a couple to choose from, here is the one I had in mind...

ADV. 276/286
@.050 247/256
106 LSA 100 ICL
LIFT .630/.637

I am guessing my compression should be around 9.5:1 but all in all I think this should be a fun modded stock style motor.

Thats to much cam....... Get down in the 230's on the intake. I also assume your not expecting to run stock rockers with that kind of lift. Look at Lunati 61603.

X2! I have a DOVE-C headed 514 unported and the only thing I think is helping it make decent power is the Lunati .568-.580 solid flat tappet. Any thing bigger would just be mismatched to the combo.