Car Craft's 455

Discussion in 'Street/strip 400/430/455' started by douglas glad, May 11, 2006.

  1. Nicholas Sloop

    Nicholas Sloop '08 GS Nats BSA runner up

    Two things I'd like to see. Edelbrock heads vs. TA Stage 1. I think we all already know the answer, but it would nice to see in print. If you are willing to go farther, Bulldog and TA Stage 2.
    Also, Edelbrock B4B vs Performer. In case you don't know, the Performer had the carb set back, as Buick did, to accomodate the factory ram air system. The B4B carb has it centered. Would be nice to know if it really makes any difference.
     
  2. Nicholas Sloop

    Nicholas Sloop '08 GS Nats BSA runner up

    I think too much

    Another of the long standing Buick arguments (which you won't solve, but it will be fun to get in the game) is the folks who say put a single plane TA intake on anything vs. the traditional put a dual plane if it is used below 6000 rpm folks. Granted, this is a test that is best proved in real world conditions on a particular car, but good food for magazine ink.
     
  3. tommieboy

    tommieboy Well-Known Member

    How many sets of Bulldog heads have there been produced at this point? Maybe CC should stick to items that are currently readily available to the Buick market. Just my 2 cents. Might as well test the old Weber intake manifold with the Bulldogs too. I think Jim Bell will loans his out for this test session. :grin: :grin: :grin:
     
  4. Yardley

    Yardley Club Jackass

    Chris, actually mid-year 1971 is when the oil passages were enlarged on the 455.
     
  5. RAMKAT2

    RAMKAT2 Randy

    Car Craft 455 Buildup

    Doug, The plan you outlined sounds great! Just let us know when you plan to run it in the mag.
     
  6. Jess

    Jess Meaner than POOP!!

    WOW, wish I had seen this thread long ago..


    Well since I OWN the BBB winner from car craft of 01 and can tell you what I have seen since tthen, I would have to say either a stock build and slowly get it up to the winner, a head shootout, or FOR SURE oiling mods to the same build up as the winner..since that is what I am doing now.


    Also, side note, HOW THE HELL does someone contact CC and send in their build story when their email will not accept an email?
    I would love for the editor to just read my build, not really even wanting anything more, but this way they can see that it went into a car, and not shelved somewhere.

    Avid CC'er and hope we see more stuff on the BBBs..:D
     
  7. cruizin70

    cruizin70 cruizin70

    455 Build Up

    I would like to see you put the following into your Buick 455 Buildup:

    -Lunati Cam
    -TA Performance Stage II Aluminum Heads
    -Edelbrock Performer dual plane aluminum intake w/ Quadrajet 4 barrel carb

    :laugh:
     
  8. Joe Kelsch

    Joe Kelsch Eat Mo' Rats

    I have a 212 in my motor and I love it. I turn down the idle to about 600 and it sounds like a big cam through my headers.
     
  9. pooods

    pooods Well-Known Member


    This sounds very good to me! A piston change would be great too. A lighter set producing a little more compression. Thanks for trying to do this right!! :TU:
     
  10. pooods

    pooods Well-Known Member

    P.S.
    When you're done with those little aftermarket heads, just let me know and I will take them off your hands. Hate for you to clutter up the place with unused parts. LOL
     
  11. EEE

    EEE Straight out of lo-cash!

    I live not far from the CarCraft office and could volunteer my Centurion if you need a car to run the engine in. We could take it up to the Lancaster track on Wednesdays and Fridays to check real time improvements with different mods on the track if that's more fun than the dyno.
     
  12. Buick

    Buick Ramin Ansari

    In all liklihood, the stockish short-block rebuild will be safe to 6000 rpm. Use the "huge grind" for the 2nd cam, but no bigger than a cam with a power band up to 6k.

    I like the baseline you are planning, except for the stock cam you plan to use. Most folks are already running an aftermarket cam or plan to. Also, the folks still running the stock cam will likely never upgrade (i.e., stockers, concours, etc.). Keeping the cam the same only gives reader an idea of the 1970 baseline. I think we'd like a baseline circa 2006. For the first cam use a mid-range cam of "average" upgrade with the stock heads, then swap heads. I dunno, say a TA413 cam, or that cool little Scott Brown cam (226/238?).

    Awesome.
     
  13. Bad Buick

    Bad Buick Foe Fiddy Five

    DId CC ever get around to doing this? I may have missed it if they did....
     
  14. Landshark1969

    Landshark1969 1969 GS convertible

    Not yet they said teir engine they bought was garbage I subscribe evry month I'm waiting for tis article.
     
  15. 71GS455

    71GS455 Best Package Wins!

    Douglas Glad's last "logged in" activity on the site was back in late July. I'd guess that once they found they had a bad motor, the idea was scrapped for other things that they already had available to work on.
     
  16. Joe Kelsch

    Joe Kelsch Eat Mo' Rats

    They had a little blurb about it in the back of the Nov 2006 issue.

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  17. NJBuickRacer

    NJBuickRacer I'd rather be racing...

    Good to see that some of this stuff finally went to print. Found this ancient thread searching for something else:cool:
     

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