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Originally Posted by HickRocket1258
What's your plans engine wise. You probably have it in here but I didn't read through all of it haha. Good deal on the insurance. My dad's '41 pickup is like $150/yr maybe.
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Engine-wise, there are short-term and long term plans. For the short-term, there's a 350 from a '91 Corvette sitting at a friend's house. It's an L28 with the Corvette H.O heads. It was designed with a 5000 RPM redline and that's about where the cylinder heads start copping out. A simple pocket port to a ~160-180cc intake and 70% on the exhaust port will give it breath 'till about 6000 RPM. The stock cast iron connecting rods will be removed in favor of el-cheapo forged rods costing 160 for the whole set. Then, I'll spend an hour or two on the phone with CompCaps or Lunati and get a cam made for me, with new springs and lifters to match.
In the long term, there's basically two options. The first is go with a basic LS gen III, gen IV LS, or the new Hemi V8s, probably courtesy of a t-boned car mated to a 5 or 6 speed transmission. Parts for those are ubiquitous and power is easy enough to come by. The other option is a fuel injected 485ci Cadillac mill bored out a touch and possibly twin turbocharged. Using megasquirt and an auxiliary fuel tank, I would switch between gasoline and 0lbs of boost to nitromethane and a leisurely 8 lbs of boost. This would be topped off with a fine set of aluminum heads to keep compression and heat transfer up. I could do the same thing to a small block Chevy, probably, but it wouldn't be as interesting.