347 reasons to love my car again

SMOKEDYA said:

breaking them loose at 65MPH? what gear is that and what rearend gears? man i wanna see your video. nice car and nice find! what was the cost tho? peace


john

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That's my buddy's GT. It's an 11.5:1 compression 347, all the goodies, about 400hp/420lb/ft at the wheels, 3.73 gears and a T56. Mine did rip'em loose at 40mph going from 4th to 3rd though.

I bought the short block for $1350. It's kind of a F'ed up deal because it was supposed to be a Scat crank/rods and flat top Ross pistons...but it ended up being Eagle crank/rods with dished SRP pistons, so it's a lot less compression than i wanted but it's very pump gas friendly and it's still a good quality stroker.

It has ARP bolts all throughout and came with a 7qt pan, windage tray, new high volumn oil pump and timing chain (which i had to change because the cam sprocket wouldn't work for my mechanical fuel pump eccentric), Anderson Motorsports N91 cam, Crane high rev lifters, and was supposed to come with a main girdle but didn't. On top of all that it had a stripped head bolt which REALLY pissed me off...but i'm playing the better man and letting it all go because it's still well worth the money for what i got.


Right now i'm super aggravated about the starter issue i mentioned earlier, because wouldn't you know it, my starter is giving me fits. I don't know if maybe we ordered the wrong tooth flywheel or what but the damn thing is grinding like crazy. Also i got a call last night saying "oh yeah i forgot to tell you, i didn't bolt up the passenger side header to the X pipe" There's my exhaust leak.

So, i'm not sure what to do about the starter. I'm pretty sure my bud's wife is sick of me being in the garage..lol, and he goes in for back surgery tomorrow so i need to find another garage to borrow. If i have to pull the header out again just to change the flywheel, the whole damn thing is coming out and i'm putting a stock oil pan on it.

Oh perfect....now my brand new Holley fuel pump is pissing gas out of the gaskets.





Oh well...here's a couple pics anyways. Still pretty low key looking setup which is perfect for keeping it semi-sleeper. I don't know if the cam lope will help though..lol. I still need to clean up a bunch of stuff and i wanted to get all my brackets bead blasted but i was pressed for time so i had to leave them all crappy looking.