For the street and strip builder's used 12 to 1 Speed Pro Hypertectic pistons and truck HD straight casting 1.94/6 intake 76 CC 882 head's and save a lot of money. Port the intake side of the head's slightly and replace the spring's and exhaust rotators with regular retainers. 10.7 Dynamic CR approximately with shim gaskets. It's a good street engine with the right solid flat tappet cam, rear gear and stall converter combination. 480 ish cam lift and cut down the valve guides. Stay with 1.5 rocker arms. Open plentum and 750 carb. You can go Forged crank and pistons and H rod's with brodix head's for another 10K. I saw a lot of people asking questions about building a 355 so I wrote down a little bit of what I know will work for those with a budget. Remember that aluminum racing head's Are not street head's and the guide's don't last very long usually and Are expensive to get repaired. Stock 70's and 80's head's with steel exhaust seats Are not usually a problem. And the two newer last style Vortek head's. Stay away from Tbi and Ported Injection head's because they are not Vortek head's. And Early hump head's don't have hardened steel exhaust seats. SBC Are pretty forgiving engine's but they do have a few limitations with street use. Keep Cam duration at .050 under 235.
Loved ol’ Farm Truck since ‘10, just a neato badass hunka ‘Merican steel. Nice guy driver too. But HOOOOO EEEEEE your Squarebody!!??!!! That’s pure Detroit heaven, Sir! Beautiful BEAUTIFUL truck! Bless your heart!👏👏👏🤘😍
I just want to be able to live my life and not have to worry about being judged for something that means nothing to anyone like it means something anyway
Thank you. The video is for sure an oldie. I still own the truck. Been getting things sorted out, and I’m fixing to get back on it. It will be coming back out soon.
@@scustomsteve this setup was a run of the mill Holley 850 with a crossbar plate under it. The new setup will be a 4500 flange throttle body, Holley EFI, and a couple of dry kits for good measure. Lol.
Yes sir. Built everything on the truck. Engine, transmission, narrowed the rear end. Thank you for the comment. Like and subscribe if you haven’t already. The truck is under the knife again.
I had subscribed a while back I didn't know it's the same truck that you had in the small town drags video. I saw you have plans for the big block etc now. Where did you learn all the engine and fab work did you go to tech school??
@@adamjuiceman thank you for subscribing. Everything I’ve learned has all been self taught really. When I have my mind set to something, I just look everywhere and find information about it. I’ve been around racing all my life, my father drag raced, my cousin raced dirt tracks, now my daily job is an engine builder and machinist for Henson Racing Engines here in Oklahoma. As far as the suspension, it was stock ride height on the front, and it had two inch lowering shackles in the back of the truck, just to level the stance out.
T C thanks for watching. When we did this video, it was a Ford 9inch with a custom made driveshaft with 1350 u-joints. For your setup, I don’t think you will have an issue with the stock driveshaft, I feel your weak link may be the actual rearend.
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Yes!! Please tell me the specs for heads, cam, etc?! I’m building a 355 SBC right now and I’m hoping to get 500HP! Was thinking about going with 200CC/64cc heads, 560 lift cam, etc.. but I don’t know if that will get me 500hp???
Get AFR aluminum heads and make 500hp on pump gas with not as much cam and compression as the race gas and cam engines You should add some cubic inch to it say a 383, 373, or 388, all with the 4.03" bore dont go over that in a stock block for 500hp. If you had a 400 block would be easier also, even with a 350's crank could do it. Although i would make a 400 a 396 with an offset ground 400 crank or forged unit, and use a long rod and a 4.155" bore, same thing here don't go over the O.O3O" overbore in stock blocks with 500 hp for a little durability. It is easier still to make 550 streetable horsepower with a DART tall deck block, and have even a larger bore and stroke with a longer rod for a good rod ratio. A tall deck dart block at 376 cubic inch is going to make the most compression on pump gas with a long rod than any of the others, even a stock block 355 long rod. Just food for thought for anyone out there that saw this. Because do you really want to change springs on less than a 10 to 100 passes at the drag strip? imagine going to the grocery store, ever change out your valve springs in the parking lot after getting there barely? Typical of 500-700+ hp 350's.
@@zAvAvAzI've built 600+hp 357ci SBCs using 68-73 production based blocks. Don't believe everything ya hear on the internet. Drive a 500+hp 355 in my daily driver, been in there for 4yrs and zero problems. It's it gets drove hard everytime I drive it. Not all 350 blocks are the same strength. The late 60s early 70s are the strongest. I've built over 500 SBCs by the way, so I've noticed a few things about them.
@@thereluctantgearhead4544 cool. How much street manners are present in those 550hp 350's? Look giving advice is more than peak power numbers in my defense if any defense are required. You are absolutely correct though. i would love to build 500 plus small block chevys, all over at least 400 hp each.
@@zAvAvAz A normie wouldn't want to drive them everyday if at all, but if your a gearhead, totally doable. I've drove 750+hp bigblocks to work everyday. But they ain't for everyone. I've worked in engine shops & machine shops all my life, so that definitely had its advantages. I always live near my jobs too. Worse thing about driving 550hp SBCs everyday is the loose convertor and deep gear required to make it work. Get kinda loud in the middle of a city. Manual trans definitely makes it easier. My daily driver has a 4spd and 4-10 gear. Would need a 4500+stall to use a automatic. It all boils down to haw much someone can deal with. My cars are all manual brake, manual steering, no heat or air conditioning, no radio, etc. Pretty much no nothing but power. But as far as the engines go, they start right up and will go as far as the 10 gallon fuel cell will allow. Even in 10 degree weather. All I've ever drove is hotrods since I was 12yrs old and I'm an old man now almost 50yrs later. I still remember the early 70s.
Larry Rodriguez this motor was a 406. Dart 227 heads, eagle crank, eagle h beam rods, je pistons, Vic jr intake, shaft mount rockers, custom ground solid roller cam. It made 620 to the flywheel on motor, and it got another 250hp sprayed to it. It was a super fun setup.
Farmtruck is one of my favorite I started watching Street outlaws from the very beginning in farm truck an agent and daddy Dave always been my favorite and still are but I have never seen nobody beat the farm truck off the line
