Hi guys,
New here and looking forward to gain some suggestions on my 67' Fast Back barracuda. Originally a slant six 904 now is slowly becoming a 360 727. Complete budget build and low spectrum of budget as in Soldiers pay with a family type budget. Goal is a fun reliable street car. Current situation is I have the motor out and cleaning up the nasty engine bay getting ready to drop in the 360. However, I couldn't leave well enough alone and just decide today that I was going to pull the cam out of it and possibly install Comp's XE256. Why the 256 well my parts combination is quite mild. I have a low mileage RV 360 1971 motor that someone rebuilt at some point with fresh 973 318 heads. Not the ideal head I know and will probably choke it down substantially. But has harden seats most likely being made 75' thru 83' 1.78-1.50 valves. I should have the benefit of great velocity and a little compression but lack the flow. The 256 should in theory scavenge the exhaust better and with 340 exhaust manifolds should get me to around 250-275HP maybe 300ft LBS respectively. This is all just a complete estimate on my part. Going with the orange box ignition and has a 71/4 2.76 one leg. Sorry for the long intro. What do you guys think?
New here and looking forward to gain some suggestions on my 67' Fast Back barracuda. Originally a slant six 904 now is slowly becoming a 360 727. Complete budget build and low spectrum of budget as in Soldiers pay with a family type budget. Goal is a fun reliable street car. Current situation is I have the motor out and cleaning up the nasty engine bay getting ready to drop in the 360. However, I couldn't leave well enough alone and just decide today that I was going to pull the cam out of it and possibly install Comp's XE256. Why the 256 well my parts combination is quite mild. I have a low mileage RV 360 1971 motor that someone rebuilt at some point with fresh 973 318 heads. Not the ideal head I know and will probably choke it down substantially. But has harden seats most likely being made 75' thru 83' 1.78-1.50 valves. I should have the benefit of great velocity and a little compression but lack the flow. The 256 should in theory scavenge the exhaust better and with 340 exhaust manifolds should get me to around 250-275HP maybe 300ft LBS respectively. This is all just a complete estimate on my part. Going with the orange box ignition and has a 71/4 2.76 one leg. Sorry for the long intro. What do you guys think?
