My first Drag Week co-pilot, Steve S, is a Chivverlay guy. I'm embarrassed to admit that I've had a couple of his small blocks on the dyno. On both occasions, he left the timing light clamp on the plug wire, and during the pull it slid down the wire, landed on the headers, and melted the clamp
My fault for not seeing that issue. I hate those engines...
Joel has also had his FAST series Hemi on my dyno. That thing looked bone stock, had the factory intake, carbs, and exhaust manifolds, and made over 700 horsepower. I was mildly impressed
Joel is hoping for 700 out of this engine. The heads are probably up to it, they flowed 390 cfm on the intake. The manifold and carbs, on the other hand, might hold it back some. Jeff (JericoGTX) is just hoping it blows up, because he knows if it does, Joel will never have it ready for Drag Week this year, and he will owe Jeff a steak dinner
Here are some more details on the engine. Displacement is 468 CI, bore is 390 size at about 4.07", stroke is 4.500". Cam is .700" lift on the intake, .650" on the exhaust, 261@ .050", 112 LSA. Compression is around 11.5:1, and the induction system is some long runner crossram with pot style carbs on it. I haven't seen the induction system yet, but my guess is that is what will be holding him back. One thing that will help are the headers, which are my SOHC dyno headers, with a few extra holes drilled in them to bolt to the aluminum hemi heads. The ports lined up nearly perfectly! I told Joel that he was one cam short of an SOHC
When he has it nearly ready to run, we'll place our HP and torque bets...
