Top End Upgrade??

billbosc said:

I'll figure it all out.
I'm not worried about it. Came on here to pick up some pointers and a little knowledge,
Maybe get pointed in the right direction. Only to get a bunch of extreme variations of what each person thinks in there mind is the best thing to do. Then the negative stuff. Because some
Of you think u got it all figured out. Lol. Damn. Another one bites the nuts.


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As said earlier, take a breath a second. I think you're on the right track with thinking that a rebuild is in order. A "new" motor shoud last you a good while and like you said, at least you'd know what ya got. If you're just looking for a fun car to cruise around on a pretty day and beat up on the young punks on occasion, you don't need an 11 sec 1/4 mile car to do that. I don't think you're realizing how fast an 11 second street car is, that's a pretty friggin fast car. If you have a "do it all" street car that can run the 1/4 mile in 11 seconds, you're darn near hanging w the "exotics" at that point. A 300-350 rear horse fox chassis mustang with a little steeper gearing than the stock 2.73 will hold its own in a street fight any day of the week. I haven't had the opportunity to try it yet but I don't think a new GT (or at least the models making 400 crank hp) would have enough road to run off and leave me too bad in a street setting. It'd be a good fight I think, I'm only making 332 at the wheels but with the 3.73 gears it doesn't take but a jiffy to get into boost. I think if you're car was up and running right you'd be suprised how quick it is. Now all that being said this is what I would do: Since it's time for a rebuild I'd pull the motor, send the bottom end to a machine shop (preferably local), have them work it over to a 306 w all new "innards", order the tfs topend kit, all of the additional air and fuel components, put it together, hook your supercharger back up, and get a tune. If you're not beating the dog pizz out of it on a daily basis it'll hold up fine. Say you make 400 horsepower at the wheels, It'll be a monster on the street, plenty fast my man. Nuttin' with saggin' jeans will be able to touch you. Hell, for that matter even if you did gt40 heads and intake inconjunction with your supercharger you'd be faster than most of the daily driver schmucks.

Either way it won't cost near as much as Woddy's strokers and w the money saved you can put it towards beefing up the transmission and suspension if needed. On top of that it wouldn't be so much of a chore to drive it to Sonic.