Turning a 351w into a beast on a budget without juice?
 

I bought my 69 coupe a few years ago and Ive kept her pretty much the same since, except for a new speed demon. Right now the only performance parts she has are a dual exhaust (but stock exhaust manifolds), edelbrock intake manifold, electric fuel pump, and the new carburator. Shes basically a base-line coupe without the original engine or tranny, so no sense in keeping her stock.

I want to turn her into a street-monster but i only have a budget of about 3k (maybe more) and I hate nitrous. Any suggestions on how I could do this?

Re: Turning a 351w into a beast on a budget without juice?
 

Well, some general ideas,
Smaller things:
Headers
GEARS
Petronix ignition to eliminate the points
TUNING (Hey, make the most out of what you've got) :)
Bigger stuff:
heads/cam/intake (lots of choices, lots of folks like ARF's, but I dont know enough about heads to recommend a particular brand. Make sure the pieces work together though. Someone like Edlebrock who sells matched systems is never a bad thing)
Quality rebuild, maybe bump the compression up. (or keep the comp lower if you eventually want to boost it)
Blower :D :D
Hope it helps.
J
BTW, what part of Tampa? We just moved up here from T&C about 9 mos ago.

Re: Turning a 351w into a beast on a budget without juice?
 

I am going to assume the engine is in good operating condition.

If it were my car and I had 3,000...after making many mistakes before realizing where the money should have been spent on my own car....

Aluminum heads and a cam
Gears
Shift Kit
If money permits, a stall T.C. and maybe ignition upgrades
Ryan

Re: Turning a 351w into a beast on a budget without juice?
 

Ebay has 408 stroker rotating assemblies not for 599....

Re: Turning a 351w into a beast on a budget without juice?
 

I would say a good set of aluminum heads would be the first thing I'd do...but also, I just built a 351W stroked to a 396 with about $3500. I found the stroker kit in Speedway magazine for $800. it was a really awsome project and the car runs really good now...