mrob,
It's got the Mopar crank, Ross pistons, and rods from a Chrysler 273. We went with a solid lifter, short duration cam. It's a Comp Cam, duration .274-.280, lift .502-.511 . The idea was to have fairly light rods and pistons along with a solid lifter cam, this would hopefully get me an engine that would rev real quick, with a bunch of torque that starts real early. It seems very good for the street. It has the 2.02 J Heads, I think there was some minor work done on the heads. It's got 9.5:1 compression. We went with the Hooker Competition style headers with a ceramic coating. The fit on these headers was great, there was no hammering or denting the pipes to make them fit. The only mod was going with an extra exhaust gasket on the driver side to get the pipes away from the starter. The intake is an Edelbrock RPM Air Gap, it's got the Edelbrock AVS 800 Carb. I've only put about 20 miles on it so far, but I'm very please with how responsive the motor is at low speed / low RPM. I was afraid the this carb was a mistake, but for street driving, I think we have a very good set up. I did not build the motor, I got it from a good old boy in Ohio.
I've got 323 gears, they seem pretty good so far, I'm not going to get any decent 60 foot times with it, but it seems great for the street so far.......
