'My engine's toast' update - December
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'My engine's toast' update - December Thought I'd let you guys know that I finally picked up my rotating assembly today during my lunch break. It's been a while since I posted anything about my car since nothing much has been happening with it .
A quick summary for those who don't know the story, I blew my motor this past summer during a street race with an SRT 4 of all things (don't worry, I hhad him beat by about 5-6 car lengths
.) Worst part about it was that I only had the car on the road a month after waiting more than a year without having money for insurance to drive it.
Anyways, I decided that I since I was going to have to rebuild the motor anyways, I may as well do a stroker. I decided to go with a 396 'cause everybody else and their friends all do the 383 thing. I wanted to be different. I also decided to switch over to a carb- again just to be different (man I got a lot of crap from everybody for deciding to go that route
Project "New Old School" has officially started. Next paycheck, the block wll be sent out for machine work to accept the 4bolt splayed caps and stroker crank.
Haven't decided on heads and cam yet, but the goal still remains 450+. Many say I can't do that and still be streetable but I feel confident that I can.
Tell me what you think, and if you have any suggestions on heads and or what cam to go with, let me know. Thanks.
- Forged steel crank
- H-beam connecting rods
- Forged Aluminum pistons
- 4 bolt splayed caps
- all the other crap that goes with it...
MY ALL FORGED 396 ROTATING ASSEMBLY
A quick summary for those who don't know the story, I blew my motor this past summer during a street race with an SRT 4 of all things (don't worry, I hhad him beat by about 5-6 car lengths
.) Worst part about it was that I only had the car on the road a month after waiting more than a year without having money for insurance to drive it. Anyways, I decided that I since I was going to have to rebuild the motor anyways, I may as well do a stroker. I decided to go with a 396 'cause everybody else and their friends all do the 383 thing. I wanted to be different. I also decided to switch over to a carb- again just to be different (man I got a lot of crap from everybody for deciding to go that route
Project "New Old School" has officially started. Next paycheck, the block wll be sent out for machine work to accept the 4bolt splayed caps and stroker crank.
Haven't decided on heads and cam yet, but the goal still remains 450+. Many say I can't do that and still be streetable but I feel confident that I can.
Tell me what you think, and if you have any suggestions on heads and or what cam to go with, let me know. Thanks.
- Forged steel crank
- H-beam connecting rods
- Forged Aluminum pistons
- 4 bolt splayed caps
- all the other crap that goes with it...
MY ALL FORGED 396 ROTATING ASSEMBLY
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Originally Posted by FIREHAWK #07
your rotating assembly looks B E A U tiful!!!!!
Since I just recently moved back home
I'll finally have some money to spend again. Looks like my car will be back on the road this spring afterall . Yeah ! 
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Originally Posted by TwoFast4Lv
OH BABY! I am guessing 13 to 1 CR unless you go with Trick flows
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Originally Posted by '93 LT1
According to the spec's I got with my rotating assembly, the compression would be something like 12 to 1 with stock LT1 heads. With the 76cc LT4's from AFR I plan on getting, that shoud drop compression down to like 9.9 to one or something stup like that....
Ok I see. If you use high end variables those numbers come out.
With a tight tolerance motor like the one I am building it comes out 12.99 CR
BTW I would only run a big chamber if you plan on running boost. For N'A I would go with at least a 64cc chamber
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Originally Posted by BRENTT94Z
Nice Internals!! 
Hey man, I was looking at your cardomain site. That a really nice Z you've got. I noticed that you swithed to a solid roller with the 383. Is your car a daily driver? If so, how does it run with the solid roller. Is it streetable? Any draw-back's to it?? Let me know 'cause I still haven't decided whether I want to go to a solid or stay hydrolic.
Thanks.