If you could build an engine any way you wanted to

[Smokey]

I remember a family member back in the mid 80's with his 66 327 Vett with the side pipes and the pop it had out the exhaust. He tried to tell me that it was from fat pistons and still had to use 2 bottles of 104 octane booster to the Mobil 93 premium that it would drink.

I know I might get flammed for this but I was thinking for the someday 32 Furd Sedan highboy and always remembered the motor Spanky had in his 66. I thought it would be fun in my roadster, but I think the roadster deserves to be more mellow drivetrain.


It would start out as an old style 327 with a big stroker crank kit in it, like get 388 ci, then I heard rumors that Ohio Crank makes a bigger stroke yet. Put some big JE or Ross Pistons in it for 13-1s, a nice solid roller in it with the 3/7 flop to it, a set of either MoTown heads with some work done to them, or a set of GM castings with a ton of work done to them with a Vett alum intake with the oil tube up front, run short water pump, deep groove pullys with a factory idler pully, polished factory finned 60's Vett Covers and then one of the new Holley Fuel Injection kits running on E85 with a 63-64 Corvette Dual Snorkle air cleaner hiding it all. Run 2.5 ramshorns with the stock looking alt bracket kit on them after they been all hogged out and honed. It would either be detailed up with all stock colors but to the max (Chevy orange cleared and wet sanded, semi gloss black pullys, brackets, etc) and made to look all GM stock other than the wiring and injectors.

Mate it up to a Muncie style box with an aftermarket case and an overdrive 4th with a 3.00 something 1st gear while it would be spinning a Winters quickchange with 4 something gears.

I don't know about what mufflers yet...no Flowmasters, maybe some aftermarket Corvette sidepipe chambers reworked to run under the car so I have the same sound as Spankys 66 had. And since I'm still dreaming, run an ignition box with a 7800 chip in it, so I can shift at 7500 before the guns go off. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]