I saw that on FB and saved it. That was a heckuva' deal!Another update, Machine shop is slowwww on the spacers for running a 2.75 Molnar crank in the 351 block. Apparently the conversation bearings are out of stock, so he is using a Cleavland race bearing, has to cut the adapter for that bearing tang which is different then the conversion bearing. He is good so I know it will be done right and worth the wait. He also found this block was off .005 from bank to bank, it is milled and squared now. It will be for sale soon....keep reading.
Then I was checking FB market place Thursday and bought this for 3K, so now we are at 427cid, it was a blower motor so cam and billet Gibtec pistons will be sold to offset some of the cost. This is a RPM MAXX with 4.125" bore, it has 4" Eagle crank and 6.2 rods. So tearing this thing down and putting my Molnar crank and rods in this block, still targeting 10:5:1 compression. On the fence on SR cam or HR, I already have the SR Crane Lifters from the 331.
Im curious what you were going to run set up wise for the 408w. I have a 351 w in storage that had been machined etc sitting in plastic on a stand. I want to do a 408 but this block is 40 over. I have the block, dizzy, and TF R series intake for 351. I wanted to run my current heads I have on the car which a TFS 11R 190s with 56cc chambers. I’m not sure what I would need to get, I’m guessing rods and crank I could just run the 4340 forget or fast crank at 4.000 and 6.2 rods of choice I or H etc. I don’t know what to do from pistons due to the head chamber CC and to have compression ratio that is good for just a fun street cruiser. No track days that I could foresee, just street cruiser, show car etc.
Thanks man I’ll have to look into those. This is where it gets beyond my knowledge of building etc. I just want to have a build sheet to slowly gather parts until I have everything and then do the big swap.I am in a similar situation with my heads. The AFR 205's are 58cc due to the 331 set up. So to run them on my on the 351 block using a 4" crank with 6.250" rods. To get to the target compression of under 11:1 my machine shop found an off the shelf Mahle 4.040 piston with 26cc dish. That puts the compression around 10.2:1, they also make a 4.125 piston with a 26cc dish and that will only bump my compression up to about 10.5:1.
Thanks! Regarding the scraper, my machine shop actually advised skipping it and just installing the windiage tray.Sweet update! Glad the heart work went well and you got through the tough months.
I'm planning a t-sump canton pan in my next build with a windage tray and crank scraper. Did you do a scraper, too?
I'm not using a drag pan. I'll be using the T-sump style road race oriented pan. That said, I would play around with that, watching data logs on my oil pressure to make sure it never loses any.Just my opinion on the scraper thing:
Deep oil pan
Street use
Just run the pan 1 qt low and forget the scraper
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