Could this be reworked to run on a 351C?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...tching#ht_500wt_1268
Original Post
Replies sorted oldest to newest
I am very sure that it can. The most likely scenario for it having had it's water inlets removed is that it was run on a 9.2" Cleveland block with spacers.
The 302 block is an 8.0" block so spacers in the vicinity of 1" would be needed.
Way back someone cast up spacers for this set up. I wanna say Doug Nash, but that was thousands of years ago, but yes you can do it.
As far as WANTING to run this thing on a street car, well looking at that plenum and the cross ram tubes it obviously has been designed for a specific rpm range. I doubt very much that range is 1000 rpm to 3500. Maybe 4000 to 9000 is more like it?
The 302 block is an 8.0" block so spacers in the vicinity of 1" would be needed.
Way back someone cast up spacers for this set up. I wanna say Doug Nash, but that was thousands of years ago, but yes you can do it.
As far as WANTING to run this thing on a street car, well looking at that plenum and the cross ram tubes it obviously has been designed for a specific rpm range. I doubt very much that range is 1000 rpm to 3500. Maybe 4000 to 9000 is more like it?
Just my 2cents worth, I had a tunnel ram on my 302 (chevy) and tried a cross ram simmilar to this and it gave me a noticable lower rpm range and torque. the long runners are the key. got to love it.