Mcdiver
I'm crazy, but it's paid for!!
It's been several years since I did the 383 in my 98. But, after thinking long and hard, doing days and days of research, I've pulled the heart out again.
I think our final decision on the ol girl is to keep the bottom end (was making 400 hp at the rear tires at tear down), loose the iron vortec heads and restrictive factory two piece manifold, and replace them with a nice set of ported and tricked out aluminum pieces. For ease of finding parts, we ate going to use the standard sbc bolt pattern heads rather than the funky vortec stuff.
The manifold will be sent out with the heads to Wilson to port match, install fuel rails, and to build the new throttle body. Once all of that comes back, we will send it out again to have a blind egr welded to the manifold as well as a blind input that connects to the exhaust (don't ask.). Then we have settled on a pro charger supercharger to top off the system ( only because they are the only ones with a system for my truck.)
After running some calculations and simulations this afternoon, we are expecting a conservative 700hp at the rear tires.
So now I have to do something about the darn tranny.
I think our final decision on the ol girl is to keep the bottom end (was making 400 hp at the rear tires at tear down), loose the iron vortec heads and restrictive factory two piece manifold, and replace them with a nice set of ported and tricked out aluminum pieces. For ease of finding parts, we ate going to use the standard sbc bolt pattern heads rather than the funky vortec stuff.
The manifold will be sent out with the heads to Wilson to port match, install fuel rails, and to build the new throttle body. Once all of that comes back, we will send it out again to have a blind egr welded to the manifold as well as a blind input that connects to the exhaust (don't ask.). Then we have settled on a pro charger supercharger to top off the system ( only because they are the only ones with a system for my truck.)
After running some calculations and simulations this afternoon, we are expecting a conservative 700hp at the rear tires.
So now I have to do something about the darn tranny.