98tadriver
01-18-2008, 02:39 AM
ok, So i'm going to be buying my 3rd gen back from my friend sometime this month for cheap. My plans for it are to be a fun, track dedicated car, where performance parts arent as costly as LS1 parts. It will be a slow project that will be built up in time, with goals to hit low 12s, high 11s N/A, while staying carb'd and keeping it simple. It will have more weight reduction done to it. I wanna run it as is with the stock TBI motor first to get a baseline number at the track. it doesnt really have many mods other than a K&N filter, catback, !cat, a few free mods and a 9bolt discbrake rear with 3.45 gears. it was a pretty strong motor for a 305. I will leave it up to the ninja to go 11s or possibly faster this year :D
Im not putting any other engine in it until next year. The idea here is to see what I can run with the 305. Im not trying to break any records or prove people wrong. I am just curious as to what it will run like, sound like and go down the track. Im not doing any LTX or LSX swaps. it will be a carb'd smallblock.
MMKK, so here's a list of things i put together. some i know a good deal about, others i would need some helpful insight and what not :) Im trying to keep the budget under or around $2,000-2500 this year, not including the price of the car in there.
Things on my list kind of in order-
some are used, some things would be new
Phase 1-
700R4 $150
3800 stall converter $350
ET streets or similar prefrbly cheaper than $330/pair not drag radials either
Longtubes 160.00 (new) and some kind of TD setup with a X pipe
Xpipe- $85-$95
bullet mufflers or something to quiet it down a lil $25-$60 each
and then run it, maybe before the headers and TD's, then run it after the headers and TD's
Phase 2
Some kind of a good Intake manifold I can find them on ebay, but brand new they run for $150+ http://store.summitracing.com/egnsearch.asp?SearchType=Make&N=700+4294908216+4294908198+4294924930+4294925239+ 4294840138+4294822065+4294757143+115+4294903503
a 4bbl carb 650 cfm ? My friend's brother rebuilds quadrajets no problemo. either that or find something on ebay cheap
Heads- $700/pair http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/PROCOMP-CHEVY-ALUMINUM-CYLINDER-HEADS-190CC-SBC-305-350_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33617QQihZ013QQitem Z230211543880QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
cam & lifters- $190.00 http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=LUN%2D60104LK&autoview=sku (http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=LUN%2D60104LK&autoview=sku)
hardened chro-mo pushrods were $130-140
and if i needed rockerarms- http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=CCA%2D1417%2D16&autoview=sku
then, gaskets cost for the heads/intake, miscllaneous crap $$??
some things i could get cheaper from ebay/forums
Now, I understand that this is only a 305, but i just want to see what i could get out of it until the time came for a new powerplant next year or the year after. and yes the bottom end would remain how it is :lol: no seriously, it would. Im kinda new at putting a top end together as far as what to get, so i am open to polite suggestions as to what i would need. and i must stay within the $2500.00 mark. the H/C/I probably wouldnt be done this year. maybe the intake and carb at the most. and would a 3800 stall be a waste before the H/C/I install? i dont know much about stall converters and their full potential
Im not putting any other engine in it until next year. The idea here is to see what I can run with the 305. Im not trying to break any records or prove people wrong. I am just curious as to what it will run like, sound like and go down the track. Im not doing any LTX or LSX swaps. it will be a carb'd smallblock.
MMKK, so here's a list of things i put together. some i know a good deal about, others i would need some helpful insight and what not :) Im trying to keep the budget under or around $2,000-2500 this year, not including the price of the car in there.
Things on my list kind of in order-
some are used, some things would be new
Phase 1-
700R4 $150
3800 stall converter $350
ET streets or similar prefrbly cheaper than $330/pair not drag radials either
Longtubes 160.00 (new) and some kind of TD setup with a X pipe
Xpipe- $85-$95
bullet mufflers or something to quiet it down a lil $25-$60 each
and then run it, maybe before the headers and TD's, then run it after the headers and TD's
Phase 2
Some kind of a good Intake manifold I can find them on ebay, but brand new they run for $150+ http://store.summitracing.com/egnsearch.asp?SearchType=Make&N=700+4294908216+4294908198+4294924930+4294925239+ 4294840138+4294822065+4294757143+115+4294903503
a 4bbl carb 650 cfm ? My friend's brother rebuilds quadrajets no problemo. either that or find something on ebay cheap
Heads- $700/pair http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/PROCOMP-CHEVY-ALUMINUM-CYLINDER-HEADS-190CC-SBC-305-350_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33617QQihZ013QQitem Z230211543880QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
cam & lifters- $190.00 http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=LUN%2D60104LK&autoview=sku (http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=LUN%2D60104LK&autoview=sku)
hardened chro-mo pushrods were $130-140
and if i needed rockerarms- http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=CCA%2D1417%2D16&autoview=sku
then, gaskets cost for the heads/intake, miscllaneous crap $$??
some things i could get cheaper from ebay/forums
Now, I understand that this is only a 305, but i just want to see what i could get out of it until the time came for a new powerplant next year or the year after. and yes the bottom end would remain how it is :lol: no seriously, it would. Im kinda new at putting a top end together as far as what to get, so i am open to polite suggestions as to what i would need. and i must stay within the $2500.00 mark. the H/C/I probably wouldnt be done this year. maybe the intake and carb at the most. and would a 3800 stall be a waste before the H/C/I install? i dont know much about stall converters and their full potential