[DeTomaso] 408 Stroker Life Expectancy

[Art Stephens]

     I remember some CanAm driver saying how he loved driving a car that 
would light up the tires at 200 MPH!  I would think that could make a guy 
find religion :-)

Art

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donny Williams" <Donnylee at ccwebster.net>
To: <JDeRyke at aol.com>; <artstephens at charter.net>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 408 Stroker Life Expectancy


> Thats was a great stated insight Jack!  Loved it!
>
> "And having giant rear tires twitch sideways at 120 mph after a solid 
> 3rd-to-4th shift focusses one's attention wonderfully well on driving but 
> over-tightens the sphincter-muscle on most of us!"
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <JDeRyke at aol.com>
> To: <artstephens at charter.net>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 408 Stroker Life Expectancy
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>> In a message dated 6/26/07 2:12:23 PM, artstephens at charter.net writes:
>>
>> << Yeah,  I sure would like to get one of those aluminum Cleveland blocks
>> someday! >>
>>
>> It really depends on what you intend to do with the car. Note that every
>> single one of the 'big-power' engines at this year's 'Vegas Fun Rally 
>> track days
>> had oil temp troubles- a few even with high-buck oil-to-water heat 
>> exchangers
>> installed. So obviously not all the problems with such machines have been 
>> fully
>> sorted out. Virtually none of the big motor cars were street driven 
>> either,
>> which is arguably most of the fun for us.
>> One engine, an all-aluminum Trans-Am stroker motor that was pro-built at 
>> a
>> cost of $30,000' and 'detuned' for the street with 1.52:1 roller rockers 
>> & what
>> the builders call a 'wimp cam', only puts out 627bhp. It's currently for 
>> sale
>> after less than 500 miles.
>> Another option for about half that cost is a Byars Bros big-block 
>> conversion
>> that can be built to over 650 bhp pretty easily and will weigh slightly 
>> less
>> than an all-iron Cleveland. One running at 'Vegas was 545 cubic inches &
>> heaven-knows-how-much torque.
>> But in all these monster-engines, you really need to re-gear the ZF 
>> (budget
>> another $3000) so you don't scare yourself every time the ignition is 
>> turned
>> on. With a stock-geared ZF in the big blocks particularly, 1st & 2nd 
>> become
>> useless. And having giant rear tires twitch sideways at 120 mph after a 
>> solid
>> 3rd-to-4th shift focusses one's attention wonderfully well on driving but
>> over-tightens the sphincter-muscle on most of us! This may be most of the 
>> reason I
>> haven't done a stroker myself- street driving is just so much fun in a 
>> Pantera!.
>> My 2¢- J DeRyke<BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> See
>> what's free at http://www.aol.com.</HTML>
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