fastest low budget sbc truck?

[hotrod 80]

Originally Posted by hotrod 80

$100 -2 bolt 350 638 tbi truck block (salvage yard)
$88 - used 2256 trw 4 relief forged flat tops ( ebay )
Free- powdered metal rods ( machine shop has a pile of them )
$35 - nodular iron vortec crank ( ebay )
$860- GM fastburn heads + rpm airgap(factory out of box except comp springs )
$211-650 speed demon (ebay)
$46-factory HEI with MSD board(ebay)
$65- used roller lifter set W/retainer and hardware (local recycler)
$450- machine work including balance (Jim's machine)
$239- XR288HR Kit
Lets just say $2250 with a gasket set and a new pump . Made 364 HP on chassis dyno ( which they all very ) and 501 hp on a mild N20 tune up .
Best motor pass was 11.65 @ 3000 #'s . I have over 250 passes on this combo and it is still giong strong . Will be spraying 250 this weekend with new slicks , hoping to get in the 6.60's

I will be duplicating this motor except the intake is now port matched and drilled and tapped for a fogger and putting it in a full size . I still have the top end and valve train . Oh , and it went 6.24 on 250 on a 275 drag radial @ 3018

[djracer]

Sweet!

[turbo350]

Originally Posted by Couch

350 4 bolt all, just balanced stock crank and rods .030 over speed pro hypers( got the engine from pick n pull that way) stock 882 smog head with minor bowl blending. roller rockers.screw in studs, .515/520 at 50 244/244 at 50 hydraulic flat tappet.edelbrock scorpion 2 intake and a holley 750dp,with msd dist.all together i have like 1k into my motor. it makes 267hp and 353 ft lbs on a chassis dyno through a th350 and 12 bolt with 4.10s. i got brave and its been living on a 200 shot for the past 4-5 months. it dynoed 428hp and 564 ft lbs to the wheels. going to the track saturday. 69 swb 3500lbs. should do high 13's low 14's on motor and hoping for high 11's on bottle.i'll let you know , but thats budget stuff gettin the job done

Don't see hardly anything with 882s anymore, especially in something quick. Maybe there is hope for a pair of 882s I have.

['72customdeluxe]

Hey Couch, how much compression are you running, or atleast are the pistons domed or flat tops. A 244@.050 cam and 8.5:1 compression just doesn't sound like an ideal combo if the pistons are flat tops.

[Wasted Income]

Well since you didn't specify what generation SBC...I will throw mine in the mix.

Here's my current setup:
1969 C-10 Longbed
Air Ride Suspension front and rear
4200 lb race weight
BONE Stock 5.3: Stock heads (no porting) stock cam, stock valve springs, stock intake....NEVER had a valve cover off of it.
Borg Warner S471 turbo with a 1.58 a/r on the exhaust side (huge, i know...came off of a diesel semi)
E85
Snow Performance water injection (NO intercooler)
4L80E, 13" 2500 stall Hughes converter
12 bolt with 3.73 gear and posi
275-50-15 M/T Drag Radials

Went to the track this weekend and clicked off a 13.108 @ 112 mph.....all the while lifting the heads under boost and pushing water at 12 psi.
60' was terrible....2.279 sec.

Was footbraking, trying to build a little boost, but couldn't...kept driving thru the brakes.

Was dead hooking off the line, but was weak until about 100' off the line, then the turbo lights and she pulls light a freight train, and flys thru the traps.

I need more converter, or a smaller exhaust housing...or both.

$500 for engine/wiring, etc
$400 for trans
$400 for 60 lb injectors
$400 into the turbo setup (did it all myself...got deals on parts)
$700 tuning software
$125 wideband Innovate LM1

[ripdog28]

Spending the $$ on a forged lower then not getting even cheap after market IRON would be crazy. even if going for N2O... I would atleast get some Vortech, sportsman, Dart IRON ($500-$700) if i spend a bunch on the forged internals.

Even with my BBC, i think about building a SBC with a supercharger.

[turbo350]

Originally Posted by Wasted Income

Well since you didn't specify what generation SBC...I will throw mine in the mix.

Here's my current setup:
1969 C-10 Longbed
Air Ride Suspension front and rear
4200 lb race weight
BONE Stock 5.3: Stock heads (no porting) stock cam, stock valve springs, stock intake....NEVER had a valve cover off of it.
Borg Warner S471 turbo with a 1.58 a/r on the exhaust side (huge, i know...came off of a diesel semi)
E85
Snow Performance water injection (NO intercooler)
4L80E, 13" 2500 stall Hughes converter
12 bolt with 3.73 gear and posi
275-50-15 M/T Drag Radials

Went to the track this weekend and clicked off a 13.108 @ 112 mph.....all the while lifting the heads under boost and pushing water at 12 psi.
60' was terrible....2.279 sec.

Was footbraking, trying to build a little boost, but couldn't...kept driving thru the brakes.

Was dead hooking off the line, but was weak until about 100' off the line, then the turbo lights and she pulls light a freight train, and flys thru the traps.

I need more converter, or a smaller exhaust housing...or both.

$500 for engine/wiring, etc
$400 for trans
$400 for 60 lb injectors
$400 into the turbo setup (did it all myself...got deals on parts)
$700 tuning software
$125 wideband Innovate LM1

Once you get it dialed in that will be impressive. How difficult was the engine swap with all the electronics?

[scatesracing]

2 bolt 350 .060 over
cast crank
stock rods
Hyperutectic flat tops
780 vac sec holly
441 cast heads
305 525 hyd comp cam
and a NX nitrous kit

best pass 12.52 @104mph..... 150 shot
200 shot and a timing issue fixed i had to lift and went 13.00 at 110 mph... I think it was on its way to a high 11.80 pass...

[turbo350]

Hope you guys don't mind resurrecting this thread. There has to be some new additions that can be added here.

[djracer]

No Problem. We drag up old ones all the time.

[team39763]

I'm not a leg humper or nothin' but Super73's truck ran pretty impressive times for being a low budget setup(the first setup).

[scatesracing]

Originally Posted by djracer

No Problem. We drag up old ones all the time.

Im at work.... I read this and laughed out loud.... now everyone is looking at me....

[GMR-PERFORMANCE]

summit has the aluminum heads with 2.02 valves i have not run them, they are 700 bucks , less weight will cool better and I think I read this. ( take that for what its worth) they where flowing about what the basic after market iron heads do...

I would buy a scat set up that is already done make the 350 a 383 with a set of cheap aluminum heads, flat tappet cam and but the motor on the bottle hit it for 125-150 and you will turn some very nice times. That will pull very hard.

Start looking on craigs list. That picture I posted of the dual NOS kit. I bought all of that stuff for a whopping 400 bucks.... Start hitting the swap meets as well.. Get a 750 dbl carb and a single plane intake and run it.

I have a 750 dbl pumper street demon carb. That does run good I have fixed the issues with down leg boosters 4 corner idle etc. It has choke horn but no choke. I was going to list it on craigs list but how about 125 bucks??

I bet that if we all got looking for the extra stuff we have around we can come up with a ton of stuff.. Oh I have a 7 qt sump pan that will not work on my dart block. that would work for your build as well.

I just laughed there used to be a book sold on how to get your F body car into the 10's it was a basic 400 build and NOS and a few other tricks to save money.. funny stuff

[Rannos]

My last motor was a stock LT1 out of a 95 Z28(traded an old tranny for it). converted it to carb (single plane and a 750), dropped in a comp cams XR288H cam, pocket ported the heads and used a MSD HEI. In a 64 model truck that is GUTTED and it went 12.0's before I finished tuning it. Cam and springs were the biggest expense. Was less then $1500 with buying a custom convertor for my setup. Never got to run it once I worked all the bugs out of the intake. She drop 4 rods the day before I was going to.

[GMR-PERFORMANCE]

add a 150 shot to that and now you are in the 11 second bracket.. What does that pig say on TV WEEEEEEE WEE WEE WEEEEEEEEEEE