So, as some of you know I put together a little 306 with stock heads and made 368/363 to the wheels.
Combo really started to make steam around 4000rpm and was a gas up to 7200rpm and sounded like a demon.
Car was a lot o fun, but recently ate a bunch of needle bearings, so the motor is out.
It's going to sit for about a year while I save my nickles and dimes to put her back together.
There is a good chance it ate the cam, which was the real jewel to this combo.
Part of me says, go a little more wild on the cam and throw it back together.
Part of me looks at the AFR 195 renegade heads and says... hmmm... bet I could make 450+ at the wheels with those... if done right... but would involve not just heads, but intake porting, all new exhaust and revisit the fuel delivery. Be fun to have a ~450hp ~7600rpm 306...
Now, done right, by my calculations, there is about a $10,000.00 delta between putting it back together, or going to aluminum heads.
Heads done right, 3600.
pistons, 1000
Push rods, 200.
Exhaust done right, 2500.
Fuel upgrades 800.
Intake magic 1000.
unknowns, 1000.
I'm by no means rich (blue collar worker), but we live well below our means, just paid off a vehicle, are about to pay off another... and I think can come up with the extra 10g's over the next year.
Part of me loves the underdog stock head approach... part of me says, ok, you've been there and done that, now you have to tear the thing apart and throw it back together, so, while it's out... what to do?
Combo really started to make steam around 4000rpm and was a gas up to 7200rpm and sounded like a demon.
Car was a lot o fun, but recently ate a bunch of needle bearings, so the motor is out.
It's going to sit for about a year while I save my nickles and dimes to put her back together.
There is a good chance it ate the cam, which was the real jewel to this combo.
Part of me says, go a little more wild on the cam and throw it back together.
Part of me looks at the AFR 195 renegade heads and says... hmmm... bet I could make 450+ at the wheels with those... if done right... but would involve not just heads, but intake porting, all new exhaust and revisit the fuel delivery. Be fun to have a ~450hp ~7600rpm 306...
Now, done right, by my calculations, there is about a $10,000.00 delta between putting it back together, or going to aluminum heads.
Heads done right, 3600.
pistons, 1000
Push rods, 200.
Exhaust done right, 2500.
Fuel upgrades 800.
Intake magic 1000.
unknowns, 1000.
I'm by no means rich (blue collar worker), but we live well below our means, just paid off a vehicle, are about to pay off another... and I think can come up with the extra 10g's over the next year.
Part of me loves the underdog stock head approach... part of me says, ok, you've been there and done that, now you have to tear the thing apart and throw it back together, so, while it's out... what to do?
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