hey, My Name is Brian and I just got my frist 3rd gen. Not my first F Body but my frirst 3rd gen. I love her except for the 305 and the 2.73's. But my 383 will be assembled soon and I have some 3.73's to put in it. I need some weather stripping, anyone know a local vender in SoCal where I can get this stuff? I need to seal her back up. Thanks!


~Brian

 

you can get a hold of yearone or classic industries for a weather stripping kit

 

lol, if i had 10 cents for every time someone with a thirdgen said "soon ill drop in a 383" id be a rich ****ing man hahahaha

anyways welcome... pics of the ride?

 

haha yeah I know, they all talk the talk. Its nice to see some peeps walk the walk right? Im just deciding what kind of heads I want to use and cam setup and Im also waiting on my lower end to get in from summit so I can send the block to the machine shop. Ill have pics up soon.

~Brian

 

which heads are you considering? are you changing the induction system at all? these will have a lot of bearing on what cam to consider.

 

I want to use the Edlebrock E tech heads with the 64cc chamber and 170/60 CC runners. Im probably going to build it at 9.5 to 1 and I am going to use the TPI setup. My goal is a lot to torque with about a 5K to 5.5 redline. I have a 2200 stall and looking for a disk brake rear end for my car to run 3.73s. That will put my power band right on the begining of the torque curve when Im cruising at 70 so it should be pretty fun to drive. I havn't decided cam yet but im leaning towards a custom grind comp cams with equal intake and exhaust lift with a 1.6 RR intake and 1.5 RR exhaust to grab some more torque in the bottom end and mid range.


~Brian

 

the longer stroke of the 383 will certainly provide you with the low end grunt to put a smile on your face. if you don't touch the stock tpi intake, however, you'll be missing out on all the 383 has to offer. in fact, you may still be stuck with a ~ 5k redline with the tpi being the limiting factor. are you considering aftermarket runners to help push that redline up toward 5.5k?

by the way, welcome to the boards and how 'bout some pics!

 

Ill get some pics up soon. Im going to use the TPI but Im looking for a pair of siamesed runners and or the edelbrock runners and I am probably going to use an accell or edelbrock base plate. It depends on what it looks like when I pull this one apart.


~Brian

 

welcome to the boards

I think AS&M still sales siamesed runners, if not most get the SLP's and open them up

 

on the runners i say dont go with a.s&m or tpis youl be waitin over 3 months for them if ure not doin the holley stealth ram do the super ram and if ure stayin with the runners do the slp runners and u have them in a week for about half the price of tpis or as&m

 

Thats cool. I thought the holy stealth ram wasn't smog legal? Im still saving up my dough to get all of my parts at once. If the stealth ram is smog legal then I may be very interested in running that bad boy on my car. Although it is a lot more expensive then using the factory TPI with after market runners and base plate.


~Brian

 

stealth ram ins't smog legal, but super ram is

and I think price wise their about the same

 

yaa but by the time buy the base 375 an runners if u get the tpis there 475 i believe as.&m makes them u can get them from thunder or from as&m for 425 and well gettin them from tpid just a mark up asm makes them for tpis and the eldebrock base same as the tpis big mouth if i were u ide save another 200 bucks and step up to the super ram if ure worried and have smog issues and to tell u the truth ide go that route 383 and runner set up way to much torque so much its hard to hook up and i really doubt youl be running et streets or drags all the time i do drAG radials all year lol unless u wana go a lil driften then ya run bul**** tires for figure 8.s but for 1/4 mile ure not guna go anywere with crappy tires by the time u get out the pedal and get back in it youl lose 1/2 a second and that enough of a diffrence fore u to get ure *** handed to u by a srt4 wrx lancers were not the only one tryin to fast i know of some runnin deep in the 12z stage 3 turbo set ups dont under estimate the competition hey u wana check out a fast as talon running in the 8.s look up shepeard racing its an all wheel drive tALON

 

Yeah I do know that Im going to end up with gobs of bottom end with the TPI setup. Thats what I was going for though. I have no intention of drag racing the car. I just want it to be a pleasure to drive, something that would remind me of my old lt4. That thing came on real strong at about 2500rpm. With all of that torque it will be a handfull to drive but thats most of the fun to me. I gotta get this 9 bolt in the back of this car first. Its going to be my first time setting up a rear end. Wish me luck!


~Brian