My 409 build

[SSpev]

WoW. I guess I missed some stuff. LOVE the Monty Wish I could get my hands on a 70 ss.
My pistons are Ross that Mr. Bruneau. ordered super light. Makes it rev quick.
I'd sure like to see those flow numbers. Before and after. I did my own heads on my bench.
Not as pretty as yours. With the FI you are planning I bet you go over 500HP.

 

[Kevin Green]

WoW. I guess I missed some stuff. LOVE the Monty Wish I could get my hands on a 70 ss.
My pistons are Ross that Mr. Bruneau. ordered super light. Makes it rev quick.
I'd sure like to see those flow numbers. Before and after. I did my own heads on my bench.
Not as pretty as yours. With the FI you are planning I bet you go over 500HP.

When I do another one I will definitely do some things different. Mine has the heaviest bob weight in the shops history with a forged piston of any motor. The next one will defo be A LOT lighter.
Hopefully I can get some #'s posted next week. We didn't do a before test ( didn't want to tie up the bench ), just gonna go with the #'s Eddy has in there book for them.

 

[Kevin Green]

Here are the flow #'s. Mocked everything up and got my push rod length and they'll be ordered Monday. Gonna order different rocker studs as well, builder don't like how the rockers locate on the ones that came from Edelbrock.

 

[Kevin Green]

Made a little more progress today and got to log some hours on the lathe in the process.

 

[Kevin Green]

 

[Don Jacks]

Looking good,Kevin.What kind of valvespring rettainers are those? I've never seen them with holes drilled in them like that!

 

[Kevin Green]

Thanks Don, the retainers are Del West. They bought them for another customer and something happened where they didn't use them. So when they ordered my springs they got ones that would fit the retainers. 1oo times lighter than the ones from Eddy.

 

[Dick MacKenzie]

Made a little more progress today and got to log some hours on the lathe in the process.

Oh WOW! That's pretty!!!

 

[Kevin Green]

Got a little more done today...creeping up on it ever so slowly

 

[1961BelAir427]

Lookin' good.

 

[nomad59NZ]

Great stuff Kev, you'll be getting real keen to get finished now that you are this far.

Gav

 

[Kevin Green]

 

[63 dream'n]

looking good.........excited?

 

[Kevin Green]

looking good.........excited?

VERY VERY EXCITED !!!

 

[Kevin Green]

 

[Kevin Green]

Put a factory dual 4 manifold on for fun and see how it looks

 

[1961BelAir427]

Those raw cast colored valve covers really look great!!! I like that better than polished ones or the black finned ones I have. The 881 looks kinda small sitting down between them doesn't it? I have a couple of balancers that look like yours. Are they okay for high performance use?

 

[Kevin Green]

It's really starting to come around.

I thought it looked pretty small too. Kinda surprised how small it looked really cuz it's a good sized manifold

I showed it to my builder and he said it was fine but he knows I'm not going to race it. Just beat it up on the street now and then.

 

[1961BelAir427]

I know that Dan ran very low 11's with the 881 on The Homewrecker. I am sure there are many who have had good results with it despite it being a "handicap" compared to other intakes.....he was just the only example I could think of. I wish I could afford to dyno mine with the #881 and then another intake back-to-back.

 

[63 dream'n]

Hey,I really like the fact that your head bolts are not black. who makes em,and are they edelbrock specific...arp?