Update on my rusty firebird

[67rstbkt]

A few more:

[KPC67]

Good progress

[Tuske427]

Awesome!

[FETorino]

Great build.

Back in 1980 to 92 I had a 69 FB. Love the Poncho powerplant HO racing used to build some great 400ci stump pullers back in the day. I didn't see in your thread is it a 400 or a 455?

[67rstbkt]

Originally Posted by FETorino

Great build.

Back in 1980 to 92 I had a 69 FB. Love the Poncho powerplant HO racing used to build some great 400ci stump pullers back in the day. I didn't see in your thread is it a 400 or a 455?

Thanks for the comments

To answer your question, it's a 400 stroked to 461. I used a forged rotating assembly and 87cc Edelbrock heads with some mild porting. I also switched out the springs and running a Tomahawk solid cam @ about .525 lift

[FETorino]

Originally Posted by 67rstbkt

Thanks for the comments

To answer your question, it's a 400 stroked to 461. I used a forged rotating assembly and 87cc Edelbrock heads with some mild porting. I also switched out the springs and running a Tomahawk solid cam @ about .525 lift

Sounds really nice. I had 400ci, stock iron heads with a good valve job and bowl work, a crane copy of the RAIV cam with the 1.65 ratio steel rockers (grooved rocker balls comes to mind), a set of off the shelf hooker headers, recurved HEI out of a 76 and a holley street dominator intake and recalibrated quadrajet. With a munncie, 4.33 and 255 gatorbacks it was an exciting ride.

Yours will be better in every way. I can't wait to see the finished project.

[waynieZ]

Looking Good.