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I've decided to do just a few small performance modifications to my car as opposed to going the whole other engine route. It was going to be waaaaay expensive, a little over 15K and I'm certain I can maintian the stock appearance by carefully making these minor modifications.
My plans are to install a new aluminum head that has been milled to 10.5:1 compression. It's been ported, the combustion chambers have been flowed and it's fitted with new larger inlet and exhaust valves, as well as new silicon bronze valves and titanium keepers. I'm also using a roller rocker assembly, phosphated and drilled lifters and chrome moly push rods.
To help the new head out, I'm installing a new 280 duration Newman camshaft with an adjustable gear and a set of fast road headers from Racestorations.
The last thing on my list is to replace the Z-Stromberg's with a pair of performance tuned SU's from APT (maybe). I say maybe because I've seen wild price swings on SU's, some new, some used, and a bunch of different model numbers. The one thing I know for sure is that my intake will accomodate the HS6 SU's with no mods, but what I'm not too sure about is exactly which model of HS6 I should be considering.
What I'm referring to is the "AUD" classification of the HS6.
Can someone here point me in the right direction?
BTW, I'm going to be selling the used short block and head I recently bought for the rebuild. The head is in decent shape but needs new exhaust seats, valves, guides, etc. I dissaembled the block and the head and had them looked at by a local racing prep machine shop. I didn't do any magnafluxing or anything, but the guy that runs the shop said the block and crank were in excellent condition. I just want to sell it for what I paid for it, so I'll post it in the classifieds here.
Thanks!
Tab
My plans are to install a new aluminum head that has been milled to 10.5:1 compression. It's been ported, the combustion chambers have been flowed and it's fitted with new larger inlet and exhaust valves, as well as new silicon bronze valves and titanium keepers. I'm also using a roller rocker assembly, phosphated and drilled lifters and chrome moly push rods.
To help the new head out, I'm installing a new 280 duration Newman camshaft with an adjustable gear and a set of fast road headers from Racestorations.
The last thing on my list is to replace the Z-Stromberg's with a pair of performance tuned SU's from APT (maybe). I say maybe because I've seen wild price swings on SU's, some new, some used, and a bunch of different model numbers. The one thing I know for sure is that my intake will accomodate the HS6 SU's with no mods, but what I'm not too sure about is exactly which model of HS6 I should be considering.
What I'm referring to is the "AUD" classification of the HS6.
Can someone here point me in the right direction?
BTW, I'm going to be selling the used short block and head I recently bought for the rebuild. The head is in decent shape but needs new exhaust seats, valves, guides, etc. I dissaembled the block and the head and had them looked at by a local racing prep machine shop. I didn't do any magnafluxing or anything, but the guy that runs the shop said the block and crank were in excellent condition. I just want to sell it for what I paid for it, so I'll post it in the classifieds here.
Thanks!
Tab