High stall converters and big cams turn the car into a Saturday night special. You start losing alot of driveability. Save you money and enjoy the car for what it is. Your never going to be the fastest in town. No matter how fast your car is, there's always someone faster.
Very true, but it's all about your level of tolerance. In my opinion (take it as you will) more displacement is a better idea if you're interested in a driver. You can build a milder combination that will actually run with that Mustang. If you want to hang with a SB, you either need forced induction, or a wilder combination.
If you use the 2004r with the lock up wouldn't that high stall be more streetable? I mean like if you had a manual override on the lockup. Or would it be always a pain in that first hundred feet or so? I never had a car with a high stall converter that's why I'm asking. For a very light car with an excess of power what sort of stall speed would be sensible? Jim
A 100 shot of Nitrous will take care of that Mustang. Ditch the 268 cam get a 212. 2500 stall -3000 stall. I only ran 14.90 with the 268 cam 373 gears stock engine Carter 750 Carb.
I was looking at the Ta 310 and really thinking about just pouring juice down its throat with a bigger carb.
Better to start the race even but at 35MPH roll. that will get him out of what I bet is a wicked sick 1st gear and you will be able to nail it and jump down into passing gear.
Allright guy in my shop has an 850 holley double pumper that is about 2 years old and its just been sitting in his garage so should I take it off his hands and rebuild it or that to big??
Snag it! You can always adjust it for your engine. Better to err on the robust side when it comes to the SBB.
Oh whoops, I read that as Q-Jet. The squarebore won't be as easy to get snappy response from as the Q-Jet.
Deffinetly try a 750 or 800 Q-jet (all kinds of mods you can do for these). The SBB needs to beathe. If you got with NOS do your research first! That stuff scares me. Reccomend forged pistons, and etc for it. Cam, the TA212 is a damn good start. Can allways go bigger, but you want to be able to drive it daily. That, and you'd need notched pistons for the TA310 with the 10:1 comp pistons. You really need to take your time with this. Is there a local drag strip? Go to test and tune nights and toy with the settings, find the right combination. Tuning will make a world of difference.
Ah no I did not. Some guys are saying take the air shocks off and that will eleminate the hop.My shop teacher says it will still hopo No: .Probably gonna replace em though see what happens.
Ah no I did not. Some guys are saying take the air shocks off and that will eleminate the hop.My shop teacher says it will still hopo No: .Probably gonna replace em though see what happens.
Not sure if you'll need notched pistons, TA doesn't mention anything about them on the 310. Can anyone confirm this?
Ditching the air shocks would be the FIRST thing I suggest. I don't care what kind of replacement that you use, but it will help. Air shocks are for towing, or a lousy band-aid for worn springs. Also, if your rear end bushings are severely cracked or worn, that won't help either. Ya got 8 of them!! Any coil spring spreaders aren't on the good to use list either. I've seen those added to air-shock cars. I hope you don't have those. Spend your money on getting the power to the pavement, and then I'd add some torque and horsepower! Spinning, hopping tires won't help win any race. Good luck, ElectraJim
