John_Heard wrote:Nice, I love wiring projects!

I like doing this stuff as well, though my work doesn't turn out as clean as yours does John. You're a hard act to follow !!!

Well, I made some progress over my Christmas vacation of 2 weeks, I got the PG rebuilt with better parts and a brake, a new SFI flex plate, new locking tranny tube, rewired the car and added the 2 step, and now, Ray is dropping off some Strange SA coilovers with 130 springs. I'm going to fire it up...

Man that motor looks good Harry :thumb: :thumb: Did you fire it up yet? Guess I need to step up my game now if we're going "Nova" hunting....LOL Heya Bruce, Happy New Year brother !!!! Nope, haven't made noise yet - still finishing up some new wiring. I put off dealing with the spaghetti ...

John,

Are you replacing the rotors because of the hot spots on them ? I'm running the same aerospace components brakes that you are.

If I recall correctly, Red Loctite is supposed to release when you get it up to 400 degrees or so. It could be you haven't gotten things warm enough, though who knows.

John_Heard wrote:I predict lower ET's in your future

Finally got this big bastard hung on the motor last night and I'm in the middle of getting it buttoned up. This new Hampton 871 is a fair bit bigger than the old Weiand 671. The blower case and impellers are an inch longer and with the belt tensioner / idler I had to overhaul all the regulator mount...

For that much power I would go with the steel caps. And yes you will need to check the main bores if you are changing to studs. They may need to be re honed if the clamping is different and at that point, the block is held through the cam tunnel anyway so cam bearings are in the trash. Doesn't matt...

Have a Happy Christmas and a Merry (and safe) New Years :)

I used the Race series block, it had the steel caps, .903 raised .350 lifter boss, 55mm cam raised .600. Got it without cam bearings or freeze plugs. I had the machine shop put the cam bearings in after he honed it. It's a heavy bastard, about 300lbs. Short deck Big M probably be 50 lbs lighter. Wh...

Ok, so what can you guys tell me about Big-M blocks ? I'm looking at the Big-M standard deck block. - Do I want ductile iron or steel main caps ? Whats the actual difference and when would it matter to me ? I expect this motor to (probably) be 1200 hp max, though who knows really down the road where...

x2 - good deal, John. Thanks for keeping this around

Me too - I'd miss the forum here and all of the folks here. Yellow Bullet is a good reference for research and miscellaneous stuff, but I don't post or interact there - it's too much of a snake pit. Thats the reason I hang out here John. This forum and group of folks is more like a big racing family...

Here I'm mocking up the new crank trigger. And I'm learning that a lot of guys running these setups don't use water pumps, or at least not the same water pump I switched to. I had to tweak a lot of stuff to get this all to fit together and clear the water pump and other things. We'll see if it does ...

That is quite an accomplishment, congrats !!!