Thread: The best built 350 4 bolt main, oil pan to carb?

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Hopper111

In effect, if you still think I'm crazy, then you can call a lot more than just me crazy because I can 100% guarantee that I'm not the only one that has read Vizard's book. There's some good stuff in there if you can take the time to really read it and understand what he's talking about.[/QUOTE]

I have read his book, he has a lot of good ideas in there, I use some of them, especially about partially filling the blocks to strenghten them up. I have used both on the street and the track, amazingly the engines run slightly cooler. As for the lightening side, I have not lightened the cranks as he does, but I have come to understand the theory and reasoning behind it, and I have had skelleton flywheels cut on a plasma cutter to lighten them, It makes the car so much more responsive on the track. Especially short oval tracks.

I had my crank lightened for my current motor. Its 377 CUI (400 block /w scat 3.5" stroke crank /w 400 main journals) I haven't gotten to pop it off yet but it really does cut down on reciprocating weight and supposedly you can get a little more RPM out of the motor.