thanks guys mine will not be a full on race car but will see some strip duty here and there will be mostly a weekend street cruiser i have been talking to john arruzza and he recomended going 4.50 stroke 7.1 rod and bore .60 over im thinking .30 over would be fine and he sells a piston he designed for that combo and matches the stage v head combustion chamber and ross makes the pistons for him that he sells does that sound like a good combo for my application?as far as a machine shop a friend uses riekers out of owosso michigan but the gentleman i purchased the crossram setup from out of detroit recommended best machine i believe there located in farmington hills anyone have someone they would recommend here in michigan for doing machine work on a hemi thanks.
I'll give you the same advise I gave my father. When he built his 65 Coronet I told him to do it right, make it light - make it easy to work on - and build it to go fast the first time. I told him that I made a lot of money for Jeg Coughlin because of people like him. (I use to work there). He would tell me...."ahh Kev, I don't care how fast I go, if it runs 12.00s then that's what it runs, I'm just bracket racing."
AS YOU CAN SEE AT THAT TIME WE DID NOT WORK WELL TOGETHER. LOL.
Well he started out running 12's then he was getting close to 11's so he had to get there. Then when he got into the low 11's, thats when he got hooked up with the Chrysler Classic Events "Hemi Super Stock" Class, well at the time they had a 10.50 index to run with them, but since they were short on cars they let dad run. Well guess what the new number was 10.50s. When he finally got there they bumped the index to 10.40's so he took the motor back to Bartons and had a roller put into it and some other things. Ok, so now he's running 10.20's. Then CC Events went back to the 10.50 index. So never the less, he was focused on going 9.99, then when he hit that, then it was 9.80's then 70's 60's now it's 50's.
You see the moral of the story. He built that motor 10 times to do what he could have done in the first place. Hey, I don't faut him he was in his 50's and finally had enough money and parts to live his dream. But it sure would have saved him a tone of money.
As for the combo. Here is what I'm planning for my 65 Belvedere 1.
I would like to build a 557 or 572, with crossram. Stage V heads probably just his basic head.... if I found a good deal I would go with the big valve. But stay away from the raised port head because of header issues, and I don't see it working on the street with low compression very well.
Buy the best crank you can along with the best rods you can buy... (less worries), long rods are easier on the cylinders (less side load)
Put a semi mild cam shaft with 10.5-1 comp. you'll be set. You don't have to buzz the motor very hard no matter what which is easy on parts. And if you ever do decide you want to just race it all you have to do is have some port work done and change cam shaft. Heck Chris is running 9.70's with 10.5 - 1 compression on pump gas.
That's the way to go in my eyes.
How far away are you from Detroit?
