[napster1]

Some people might remember that a few years ago I was having trouble with the engine in my 1970 Trans Am. The actual reason for the problem was I missed a shift. I don't need to go into the details. Let's just say that the engine was gone through and the necessary items that needed attention were taken care of. Some facts of the engine are it is a stroked 400 service replacement block to 433 cubes. the Ram Air IV (614 casting) heads were ported and a slightly bigger cam was installed. Also, Doug's headers were installed with a 1'7/8th primary and 3.5-inch collectors. Intake manifold was changed to an Edelbrock Performer RPM. The cam is an off the shelf Comp cam XE288HR version and had the engine dyn'd. Previously, the horsepower and torque were 535 TQ @3600 RPM and HP was 447@ 5000 through Ram Air IV exhaust manifolds. These results were with the 230/236 Comp cam @.50 HR112 and Ram Air IV repro Intake manifold. Heads were not ported. It has been three years since the incident took place and has been some adventure to get the engine running and dyno'd.

Here are the results: