Let me first say that this was alot more involved then I thought it would be. Seemed like everything that could go wrong went wrong. The nice thing was that my shortblock was in primo condition even after 163,000 miles. My Dad couldn't believe it, you could see all the cross hatchings.
Two things of note, Pro Magnum rockers hardly fit under stock 94-95 valve covers with Trick Flow heads. My valve covers got more "massages" then Donald Trump. Also the ARP timing cover/water pump bolt kit for small block Fords does not work on our cars, well 10% of the bolts work leaving you to search for the rest. Jegs told me it would work, so maybe they sent me the wrong kit?
After everything that went wrong, I was almost dreading starting it up figuring that there would be no way that it would idle. But it started right up and after awhile settled into a 750rpm idle. I was dumbfounded. The horsepower devil in my head was wishing I would have asked Ed C for a bigger cam. Drove the car home 30 miles from my Dad's without any problems. But this morning it started to die when I let off for stop signs, hope the JMS chip will help that.
I don't want to give my cam specs away, but my lift was more then what Trick Flow recomends wich worried me at first. But Ed informed me its the timing events not the lift that will effect clearance. Clearance was over 0.1" for both intake and exhaust. Also degreed the cam and found out that it was retarted 3/4 of a degree, but couldn't do anything about that. The rockers are pretty loud too, I adjusted them after running the car for 30 minutes, but I'm not sure how loud they're suppose to be?
As soon as the chip comes I'll have dyno numbers, probably at the end of the week. And I"m also going to the strip on April 18th.
Two things of note, Pro Magnum rockers hardly fit under stock 94-95 valve covers with Trick Flow heads. My valve covers got more "massages" then Donald Trump. Also the ARP timing cover/water pump bolt kit for small block Fords does not work on our cars, well 10% of the bolts work leaving you to search for the rest. Jegs told me it would work, so maybe they sent me the wrong kit?
After everything that went wrong, I was almost dreading starting it up figuring that there would be no way that it would idle. But it started right up and after awhile settled into a 750rpm idle. I was dumbfounded. The horsepower devil in my head was wishing I would have asked Ed C for a bigger cam. Drove the car home 30 miles from my Dad's without any problems. But this morning it started to die when I let off for stop signs, hope the JMS chip will help that.
I don't want to give my cam specs away, but my lift was more then what Trick Flow recomends wich worried me at first. But Ed informed me its the timing events not the lift that will effect clearance. Clearance was over 0.1" for both intake and exhaust. Also degreed the cam and found out that it was retarted 3/4 of a degree, but couldn't do anything about that. The rockers are pretty loud too, I adjusted them after running the car for 30 minutes, but I'm not sure how loud they're suppose to be?
As soon as the chip comes I'll have dyno numbers, probably at the end of the week. And I"m also going to the strip on April 18th.
