Re: Edelbrock 4 Barrel on a straight 8

Posted by Fish'n Jim On 2016/12/8 22:02:15

Ross may know. Possibility? The 327 is a stroked 288 I'm told. Is there any more compression and stroke to get after 327, or does the head blow off/piston touch or no such parts? I think the biggest L8 motor has a different crank(9 mains?)
I'd like to utilize my 288 for something besides yard art and garage filler, but at 130 HP and half a ton, I'd need 4 or 5 of them for where I'd like to be with HP on that project but then have weight of a battleship and handling of a B&O. It's pretty obvious why these went the way of the stagecoach, but are strong running quiet motors. Just have no $ value in today's market.
We've been over turbo charged already so we don't need go there.
ps: Kinda what I suspected. They came with a 2 bbl WGD - no cfm rating.
I think the early 4 bbl (pre '55) Rochesters and maybe Carters were around 300-350 cfm. So one would do but they're the vacuum idle era. I have 2 circa '58s and they're around 500 for 365 ci v8. I think the fireball Buick had 2 progressive single bbls and it's comparable in displacement to the L8s. They used to swop them out with hotter Strombergs, I recall.
I doubt you can lean out an Edelbrock 4 that much to be anywhere near operating ratio on fuel mix and still only need less than half your foot in it so no need for the secondaries. But there's always someone out there that's crafty.