[Formulajones]

Originally Posted by sjdiesel

Update:
Sorry for the delay. I got the car back on the road last November. Here is a video right after the first drive. It wasn’t overheating, I was washing some spilled coolant off the front. Since this video, I have finished all the interior, got the AC working and had Harry at HK Motorsports dyno tune the car.
The engine runs awesome! I have about 2k miles on it so far. Total tire-fryer!

BTW this video is with pypes Race pro mufflers. I have since replaced them with large 17749 dynomax super turbos to quiet things down some.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/vJwEEgyL7UuuN3NRA

Very nice. That combo is nearly identical to the 455 I built that Paul did all the machine work on. Same camshaft, nearly same head flow etc....Paul has that combo pretty well figured out, makes a nice street engine.

What torque converter are you running?

[sjdiesel]

Originally Posted by Formulajones

Very nice. That combo is nearly identical to the 455 I built that Paul did all the machine work on. Same camshaft, nearly same head flow etc....Paul has that combo pretty well figured out, makes a nice street engine.

What torque converter are you running?

I just put that together the other day. I am only getting 11” of vacuum out of mine and I think you mentioned you were getting around 14”? Wonder why?

I’m running an 11” 2800 stall converter from Mikes transmission. I was in a bind because that was right at the time continental went out of business. When I swap to a 700r-4 I think I will run one of the converters from Cliff. Seems people really like them.

[Formulajones]

Originally Posted by sjdiesel

I just put that together the other day. I am only getting 11” of vacuum out of mine and I think you mentioned you were getting around 14”? Wonder why?

I’m running an 11” 2800 stall converter from Mikes transmission. I was in a bind because that was right at the time continental went out of business. When I swap to a 700r-4 I think I will run one of the converters from Cliff. Seems people really like them.

Are you at sea level?

I'm getting right at 12 inches vacuum at 5,000 feet, which would be 14-15 at sea level. But I installed the camshaft at 106.25 ICL and I think Paul set yours at 107. Might be other minor differences as well?

Yep those converters through Cliff work excellent. They come from TSP and I dealt with Cliff on 2 of them now. One he did for this 455, same combo you're running, and another he did for my fathers car. Extremely happy with both of them so far.