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i am wanting to build this 350 i had gotten from my mechanics teacher at school.....he was getting rid of about 8 engines, mostly ford, and i took the one chevy as he had no idea what it was or what condition it was in. got it home and it turns out to be a freshly honed 350 2 bolt block with cast dished pistons, a cast crank and 487 heads with new stock valvesprings/guides and seals with freshly ground valves. i am wanting to get a set of flat top hypereutectic pistons and powdered rods while using the stock crank if i cannot find a steel crank and i want to get an edelbrock performer intake and an edelbrock 600 carb(cost a case of beer from my bro) and finally a hydraulic lunati voodoo cam kit with 454.''/.468'' lift, 213/219 duration @.050 and 112/108 lobe sep./intake centerline. my question is that if this setup will make for power/torque and if it will work well in a g-body car with 3.42-37.3s with th-350 with shift kit and if the cam will work with stock vavle train and if i should get some head porting done to clean up slag and maybe a performance valve job.

Originally Posted by GTO389

i am wanting to build this 350 i had gotten from my mechanics teacher at school.....he was getting rid of about 8 engines, mostly ford, and i took the one chevy as he had no idea what it was or what condition it was in. got it home and it turns out to be a freshly honed 350 2 bolt block with cast dished pistons, a cast crank and 487 heads with new stock valvesprings/guides and seals with freshly ground valves. i am wanting to get a set of flat top hypereutectic pistons and powdered rods while using the stock crank if i cannot find a steel crank and i want to get an edelbrock performer intake and an edelbrock 600 carb(cost a case of beer from my bro) and finally a hydraulic lunati voodoo cam kit with 454.''/.468'' lift, 213/219 duration @.050 and 112/108 lobe sep./intake centerline. my question is that if this setup will make for power/torque and if it will work well in a g-body car with 3.42-37.3s with th-350 with shift kit and if the cam will work with stock vavle train and if i should get some head porting done to clean up slag and maybe a performance valve job.

It looks good to me.
The only other thing I would add would be a 1,800 to 2,000 stall.

I have a really similar built 350 in my 80 El Camino *G-body*. its a 350, 360ci, flattops w/ valve reliefs, 2.02/1.6 64cc chamber cast GM heads .510" springs and some porting and machine work. Lunati Voodoo 60102 *you are looking at the 60101* and honestly, i wish i would have went a step up from the cam I have, but I am also running a 4-speed stick not an automatic. Edlebrock performer RPM with a daul feed 650 Holley. This car is my daily driver and after i worked out a few kinks with my ignition system.... i couldn't be happier with my build. The only issue I realy had was with the extremely weak rearends in these cars... first one 2.42 peg leg *blew up* 2nd rearend 2.72 posi *blew up* and now i finally saved some cash and had a 3.73 posi built and havn't had a problem with it yet. I'm also running 15x10 with 50 series tires so there was a lot of meat grabbing and snapping those rears.

overall the only thing i may change in the future is a set of aluminum heads and a slightly bigger cam....

thanx a lot for the help....and i was also thinking a stall like you said erik.