i have a book were the guy in an f body is makeing 1500 hp with a 370

 

UPDATE:







short block is together. the head gaskets will be here friday from cometic they are .060 thick to make the final compression ration 9.20-1. last step will be to determine what push rod legnth i will need. this motor will spin to 7k all day .

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm...tastes good!! When you think it'll be a done deal??

 

next week should be done. im nto in a huge hurry right now. i just got my own place and bought a bunch of furntiure. not to mention alot of bills. ive also got the rest of my fuel system to plumb . since ill be moving everything this weekend the truck wont even get touched. so hopefully next weekend i will start working on the fuel system. im also waiting on my vic jr , its beign polished and then sent to nitro daves for a new nitrous set up. so that is another 3 weeks on that. i also still need a few things with the intake . i hope to have it runnign by the end of april if all goes well.

 

Looking good,
Should have it all done for the June 22ND G2G in Sac

 

That's when mine should be done too. We should race'em up to Sac on the 22nd...you know just to break em in a little!!
I'm gonna be buying a place too this summer, thought I would finish the truck first though!

 

i didnt know the cometic head gaskets cost so dam much almost 300 bucks for a .060 set . the surprise was the arp balancer bolt wa sonly 30 bucks.

 

You got raped on those headgaskets, I got my SCE ICS Titan gaskets for 230 shipped and they are more expensive then the cometics. My first set of cometics were 180, dont know who you got them from but they overcharged you. What did you use to polish your block up?

 

i know they were a custom set of gaskets but hey what ever im gettign a good deal on the build. as for polish i only used some vht primer and then 3 coats of gm orange. the primer i used was a white base so it makes the orange stand out more.

 

Im talking about the shiny part bare metal part.