Well Paulie, always good to try something,and it’s your car and bank account. Just remember you are trying to make up 11.4% of torque multiplication from the gear change alone, 60 ft lbs or so, and even more when you take out converter, just to break even
With a cross bolted 427 based stroker with a ported TW, I would be letting it eat if you are running out of rpm with the current motor, that is if being real is street racing
Real is real. That's all that means. Yes, I could run the stroked 427 to the same rpm I run my 428, but the whole point of building a bigger motor, for me, is to make similar or better power with less rpm. I am peaking at maybe 6500-6600 rpm and shifting around 6900-7000 now with my 428. I have about 405 lbs open spring pressure on a flat tappet cam, titanium retainers...…cruising down the highway at 65 mph and 3600 rpm sucks. I've never been a displacement junky, but one thing it can do is make power at lower revs. I'd like lower rpms, lower valve spring pressure, and numerically lower gears. That'd be nice.
I don't like using torque to measure power, but it should be up about 50 ft/lbs from my current 428.
I don't know why you guys got fixated on the Tunnel Wedge. I keep saying that is one of two intakes I want to try. I would guess my 1x4 BT will get the nod, but I want to try both on the dyno. Real is real, right? If the Tunnel Wedge surprises me and the curve looks good with the combo, then so be it. If not, then so be it.
Anyway, the info on the Trick Flow vs Ed heads was good. It sounds like those TF's work really well with a small port.
paulie