Street Performance
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Street Performance Hey everyone, I am new here and was looking for some advice, I have a 1987 SS Monte Carlo, I am planning to run a 9" Moser rear and a built up 700R4 to handle some serious power, now what I am looking for is some advice about the motor I am planning on running, I would like a small block for the sake of installation, I want to be able to drive the thing anytime I want, wont be a daily driver but will be driven a lot, and make gobs of power, now I know that all things are a compromise and a race motor wont want to be driven on the street, so I was thinking build a decent SBC and bolt on a vortech supercharger, what do you guys think? Is it possible to make the equivalent horsepower in a NA motor and still be pump gas friendly or is a supercharger my only way to go, I like the build up in Hot Rod where they bolted a Vortech to a chevy 383 crate motor and made upwards of 650 horses......all on pump gas, but could it be accomplished without the blower?
Thanks Guys.
Josh
Thanks Guys.
Josh
with enough displacement, you can make good power. idk if you can hit 650 without spinning it to high heaven, though. i think you'd need the blower for 650 "streetable" horses.
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For 650 ponies you'll be needing a power adder for a SBC that can be driven on the street without too much worry IMHO.
The shop that does my engines just built a good 406 with a procharger at 11 psi and a set of canfield heads. On 93 pump gas, it made over 530 rwhp without an intercooler, and has already run 133 mph in the 1/4 in a 3500 lb Chevelle.
Derek
The shop that does my engines just built a good 406 with a procharger at 11 psi and a set of canfield heads. On 93 pump gas, it made over 530 rwhp without an intercooler, and has already run 133 mph in the 1/4 in a 3500 lb Chevelle.
Derek
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The funnest car I ever had was a Chevy II with a 406, the torque was killer and it sounded so good I could just listen to it idle. Big cam but docile idle.
Last edited by Novas Forever; Aug 17, 2006 at 01:29 PM.
i built a blow thru 383 hydraulic roller, with twin t65 mm turbos using
fabricated manifolds and exhaust with mild steel, a/r on compressor is .68
a/r on turbine is .92
pushing 15+ psi making close to 750+ rwhp on pump gas, in a 3rd gen camaro with ath400 and 9 in rear
Late model 95 vortec roller block, cc 210/225 .545/.550 lift cam
pro top line 190cc heads with 64cc chamber, 3.75 eagle crank int. balanced
and -22dcup pistons,5.7 i beams, PP single plane intake, and damper
CSU prepped 750 DP carb. and EV bonnet and vac pump,
on a reg, drivable car that has run low 9's but has no cage and the owner sand bags it at races,
more street racer than anything
unless u get on it , u really dont know it is anything more than another 14 sec
IROC
fabricated manifolds and exhaust with mild steel, a/r on compressor is .68
a/r on turbine is .92
pushing 15+ psi making close to 750+ rwhp on pump gas, in a 3rd gen camaro with ath400 and 9 in rear
Late model 95 vortec roller block, cc 210/225 .545/.550 lift cam
pro top line 190cc heads with 64cc chamber, 3.75 eagle crank int. balanced
and -22dcup pistons,5.7 i beams, PP single plane intake, and damper
CSU prepped 750 DP carb. and EV bonnet and vac pump,
on a reg, drivable car that has run low 9's but has no cage and the owner sand bags it at races,
more street racer than anything
unless u get on it , u really dont know it is anything more than another 14 sec
IROC
