Hi Ken!
Doug Anderson here, friend of Joe Timney's ( and hopefully others on here
!)
Anyway....ya know what, a "stock 327 rod" is "zactly" the same as a stock
283 rod...
Same-o Same-o.
I know; I usta run a poked 283 out to 301 in E/Modified Production at the
drags in the never neverland of days of old. :-) Usta come outta the hole
at 9600 and shifted at 9400. Using stock 283/327 polished and shot peened
rods,with ARP bolts. It was a '58 block and of course had only two bolt
mains but reinforced with "Preload" straps atop them... Best E.T. (in
1972,,, on 7" 8.50x14 M&H's ) was 11.37 - 118.5 mph in a 3100 lb. '64
Chevelle hardtop.
Oops! I finally windowed the block at about 110 going for 4th gear and
missing onct too many times. Even sending the wristpin through the block at
the left motormount boss couldn't break that lil' ol' 283 rod! Bent it
sure, but break it ? Notta chanct! Good stuff, them old 283's and 327's!
Now I'm running a 1966 block, small journal 327 poked to 332 inches in m'
coupe Boogie Woogie right now on the street with 10.5 compression.... and
she runs like a bear. See'er on pg. 61 (I think..!) in Peter Vincent's
wonderful new book...
Congratulations on your sucesses! Cool Man. :-) keep on keepin' on
welcome to the LSR list -its a lotta fun fer shure!
Cheers, "Dirty Doug" stuck in New Yawk
PS:
say hi to m' friends Wayne Atkinson, Ron Ceridono, & Tex for me willya ?
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From: "SMITH KENTON E" <ksmith6@mindspring.com>
Reply-To: "SMITH KENTON E" <ksmith6@mindspring.com>
To: "Richard Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: New Member Greetings
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 21:58:47 -0700
> Ken; Was yours the V7 that Jack was studying? Rich Fox
Yes it was. We ran a V7 SBC 283 and set a record in E/GMR at World Finals.
We had a blast. We finished the roadster just prior to speedweek last year.
We set it up for a SBC so we could easily run in different engine classes.
We found a 283 short block with 12:1 forged TRW pistons at the Hot Rod
Reunion swap meet. After comparing the D and E records, we decided to see
what we could do for an E motor. A friend of mine, Wayne Atkinson, had ran
a V7 302 Ford in E/Production for a couple of years in the early 80's. He
had run a dummy piston. We decided to remove a piston completely and run a
bob weight on the crank. We plugged the lifter holes and grounded the spark
plug wire to the block. We cleaned up the bore and did the regular block
machining, screwed the thing together and dropped it in. We looked at it as
a relatively inexpensive experiment. It got us on the salt, and if we
snagged a record, that would be gravy.
Being rookies to running on the salt, we've had quite a time with general
tuning. However, we were getting close at World Finals when we bumped the
record from 159.3 to 166.2. We think there is still some more left in that
engine, so we're going to run it again this year. We haven't done a
complete tear down yet, but are going to during the next couple of weeks and
have everything mag'd. We had wound it pretty tight many times for a stock
two bolt main and stock 327 rods!
See ya on the salt!
Ken
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