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Stupidity seems to be a global phenomenThis is a pandemic that is sweeping the planet in alarming proportions, the movie Idiocracy was meant to be funny, but its not funny anymore when you realize its a glimpse of the future.
I wouldn't risk sleeving all the bores, you are still likely to weaken the top and have cracks up there after running. Just sleeve the non-adjacent bores. Also, for what it's worth, I had a .060" over 406 block that went to .080" over with no problems. Some of those old blocks were really thick. I wouldn't hesitate to bore it bigger if you have a sonic check done and you weren't going to put more than about 500 HP through it.So is the weakness from the width of deck surface between the bores which would be ~ the same as a std 427 or is it due to the overbore making the transition from top of cylinder to bottom of deck surface too thin? I was reading something elsewhere that made it sound as if it was the distance between bore edges but maybe I was misunderstanding it.
Well, it's a C8AX-D cam...probably not the cam we need for a 428 PI, C-6 highway patrol carThe C8AX-C would probably be pretty good though, I think that is the same grind they used on the D2OZ 429-460 PI cam.
Check this out. It made the car 1000% more valuable in my opinion. The Shelby Series 1 cars were originally powered by a 4.0L Oldsmobile engine......not sure why they did that? It's now a 750hp stack injected FE.Back then the Olds Aurora, Cadillac Northstar, and Corvette ZR1 LT-5 engines were pretty much the state of the art V-8's.
If you emailed recently, I'm sure they are preoccupied with this years event, which starts today. Power to weight ratio should get you to the 8.50 limit. You'd also be running against Scott Miller, provided he attended, in a field entirely dominated by GM's. And nobody has really pushed the 8.50 limit, that I'm aware of.I did that with a 78 Futura years ago,I pulled the bumpers off and removed the impact beams from them and reinstalled the aluminum shells,it was a long time ago but I don't remember having to fabricate anything,I left the shock absorbing mounts and if I remember right there was a light stamped bracket that the impact beam and the shell bolted to seems like I just ditched the beam bolted the shell back to the bracket which bolted to the shock absorbing mounts and done, but I suppose you save a few extra pounds if you fabricated pieces from aluminum to replace the shock absorbing mounts and the stamped bracket.
If no fiberglass bumpers are to be had, you can shave a lot of weight by removing the heavy steel backing and ditching the "crash" mounts. It wouldn't be hard to fab some lightweight brackets and just keep the aluminum front.
Wheel tubs and frame notching are also allowed, so a good size tire would fit, keeping within the 11.5" limit.
Good choice on the car and class. Good luck.
I don't understand why the Cobras are barred from the series,if it's not considered a musclecar why is the Corvette?They raced in the same classes in drag racing and road racing.The top end Corvettes were no more affordable than a top end Cobra.If the Corvette were excluded then I could see the reasoning,but singling out the Cobra makes it appear as if they are just ruling out a car that they know has the potential to dominate the series.kind of reminds you of Nascar in the Big Bill France days.
Now why can't the 65-67 427 Cobras run in FAST? There were a total of 206 427 Cobras built. There were only 216 L-88 Corvettes built from1967-69. Only 2 1969 Z-L1 Corvettes were built.
The Cobras are not considered a muscle car by class rules. There was a lot more than 2 69 L88's built. 214 between 68-69. '67 was the year of only 2
Are there any T-Bolts running in FAST?I guess it depends on whether you can fit a 4.75" or 5.00" stroke crank into an FE block if so then you might be able to generate the broad flat power curves the 620 inch engines can,I think its a matter of being able to use the limited traction of the tires wherever you can get it on the track,and not having to wait for your combination to get into its power band.
Seems like a 500+ FE with high flowing HR heads, would do very well.
