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so how much could he have left on the table? Stock heads.....what at best maybe 430 hp?
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Many sheets I've seen are blank in these columns, in which case I don't take the HP numbers as actual. My gripe though about the video in question is where the timing is set. Those numbers are never on the dyno sheet unless the operator types it into the notes, but in this case we can plainly see that Nick is guessing at it, just moving the distributor around without checking. |
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IRC, the kid in the dyno room was the one changing the timing. I have seen many of Nick’s videos, I am sure they were keeping track of timing adjustments, and timing numbers. It just wasn’t mentioned in the video. The camera generally follows Nick around in his video’s, not his help.
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I personally enjoyed the video….. real people doing relatively normal stuff in the dyno room. Not looking to tout numbers or his ego.
He didn’t make 500hp out of the iron headed pontiac engine?…..OMG, something is terribly wrong…..lol
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Neither did I!Tom
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Not to long ago Nick’s garage had a bone stock rebuilt 70 455 Stage 1 Buick go through the shop and only made 350 ish HP with some very nice headers. The pistons that he wanted to use were not available (like lots of things right now) and he had to use a dished piston instead of a flat top. He took a compression check and it was only pumping 150 psi. I had noticed the shot on the dyno when the q jet was WOT everything was totally open. Much different than the q jet in this Pontiac video. He worked and worked and couldn’t find anymore power.
Shorty later, another video came out with dyno pulls on the same engine. All he did was mill the heads .035” and went to thinner cometic gasket’s .027”. It was ran on the dyno again, and peak HP went up to 400 HP. Impressive gain with minor changes, and only gained 20 more lbs pumping pressure, now pumping 170 psi. Never know, this Pontiac 455 engine may not be done at his shop. If the owner has higher expectations, it may show up on another show with some different mods. I think it did pretty well though. More left for sure, but it will be night and day better than the owners original 455 engine in there 76 T/A. We build a LOT of mopars, many Pontiacs, and lots and lots of other makes just like him, I like his show a lot. I admit though, the shows can get slow, fast forward can be handy. Lol Last edited by Jay S; 01-26-2022 at 09:09 PM. |
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Yep, 100% agree. The episodes often drag on for much longer than is needed to get whatever point across they are trying to make.
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Maybe I'm being over optimistic but I believe a 455 can make much more power than that on pump gas and still be very manageable...
Seems very weak and over thought in that video.. one would almost have to screw up not to make 450hp on a very mild 455 with current technology . It was painful to watch.. I wouldn't let him near an engine unless I wanted to waste money.. |
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I agree. I'll attach a dyno sheet and cam card for a very "basic" 455 Super Duty I did here some years back. Due to the relatively "low" compression ratio I was very conservative with the cam choice and left quite a bit of power on the table. I wanted good idle quality and strong low and mid-range power. The engine was previously "built" by a pretty famous Pontiac engine builder and guru and the owner absolutely HATED it. Rough idle, pinged on pump gas, and he seized it up shortly after purchasing it. Before the engine locked up he had everyone available to him attempt to tune it and he still hated it.
When it showed up here 3 cylinders were badly scored and the rings and pistons damaged. We had to sleeve the block. The Super Duty connecting rods were junk from over prepping them with a grinder, sanding roll and the small end bushings were too loose on the pins. I tossed them aside for lighter rods vs spending a bunch of money on the well used and abused SD rods. It also got Icon pistons and zero decked the block. Removed the "battleship" valve springs from the heads for "normal" spring loads and replaced the huge solid roller cam with the smaller one shown below. The engine idled dead smooth on the dyno making 16" vacuum at 750rpm's, not even a hint of "lope" clear down to 600rpm's. I knew right then and there that I missed the cam choice a bit. Even so the engine made good power but the small cam didn't effective use the head flow available from the excellent Super Duty heads and it was all done just past 5000rpms. I could have went to a 236 @ .050" cam with around 290 seat timing, moved it out on a 114 LSA and made over 500hp and still enjoyed a relatively smooth idle and good street manners. In any case you learn by doing these things not by Googling the efforts of others. When you get into new territory sometimes you just have to take the plunge and see how things work out.........
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72 lemans,455 e-head, UD 255/263 solid flat,3.73 gears,,,10" 4400 converter,, 6.68 at 101.8 mph,,1.44 60 ft.2007 (cam 271/278 roller)9"CC.4.11gear 6.41 at 106.32 mph 1.42 60 ft.(2009) SOLD,SOLD 1970 GTO 455 4 speed #matching,, 3.31 posi.Stock manifolds. # 64 heads.A factory mint tuquoise ,69' judge stripe car. 8.64 @ 87.3 mph on slippery street tires.Bad 2.25 60ft.Owned since 86' |
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Do you know what happened with the larger carb?
I hope this thread is finally done with all of the coulda, shoulda, woulda stuff. Stan
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As of yesterday he said customer hasnt brought in the bigger carb yet. Ive seen worse threads here,,,,better than no posts at all at this point.
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72 lemans,455 e-head, UD 255/263 solid flat,3.73 gears,,,10" 4400 converter,, 6.68 at 101.8 mph,,1.44 60 ft.2007 (cam 271/278 roller)9"CC.4.11gear 6.41 at 106.32 mph 1.42 60 ft.(2009) SOLD,SOLD 1970 GTO 455 4 speed #matching,, 3.31 posi.Stock manifolds. # 64 heads.A factory mint tuquoise ,69' judge stripe car. 8.64 @ 87.3 mph on slippery street tires.Bad 2.25 60ft.Owned since 86' |
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Lunati 702 Camshaft Advertised Duration (Int/Exh): 262/268, Duration @ .050 (Int/Exh): 219/227, Gross Valve Lift (Int/Exh).468/.489 ; LSA/ICL: 112/108
The 1970 455 YH motor was factory rated at 360HP (over-rated by about 30HP by my estimation) with 10.0 compression small valve 1.96/1.66 #15 heads and the 067 camshaft. The 067 cam has advertised duration of 273/289 (Int/Exh), Gross Valve Lift (Int/Exh) 407/.407, ICL 112/113. The 1970 455 YC (HO) motor was rated at 370 HP with 10.25 compression and large valve 2.11/1.77 #64 heads and the 068 camshaft with advertised duration of 288/302 (Int/Exh), Gross Valve Lift (Int/Exh) 407/.407, ICL 113/119. The dyno'd engine had #96 HO Heads with around a half point less compression than stock, large valves like the HO motor, but a cam that with less duration, more lift and tighter exhaust side centerline favoring low end torque than the 360HP motor. The benefits of the larger valves was negated by the reduced (from stock) camshaft duration. How could anyone be surprised that the HP and Torque results are so close to stock?
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I don't think anyone was surprised at the outcome. When I saw stock D-ports and the small cam chosen, I guessed 375hp and 480 tq before they even fired it up. I was about spot on with HP and it bettered the tq I guessed by 25 or so.
It's not a bad engine for a stocker. Hey Stan.........They could have verified the timing with a light though |
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Well if you watched the video, he's turning the distributor between pulls and just going right back in the control room to make a pull. He did that at least 2 or maybe 3 times without even checking it with the light. In fact he just says, we'll retard it a couple degrees. He moves the distributor and that's it, with no idea if that was a couple degrees or even where it is at all. The only time they had the light on it was on the first fire up.
And....in my other posts I did mention that I gave Nick the benefit of the doubt and that maybe he might have made a final timing check for the owner after he got there to verify where the timing is, because it is kind of important ya know. But for the purposes of the video he didn't do any of that, which makes the effort kind of pointless as far as his viewers are concerned. Whether he did after the video we don't know, but for sure it wasn't done during filming and during the video there was no mention at all where the timing ended up on the best pull. |
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I haven’t been able to see what your talking about Larry? I watched it again to see it I missed something and it appeared while Nick was going back to the control room, the younger fella was standing in front of the engine with a timing light checking it, it is just not mentioned. Young guy was carrying the timing light for most of the episode. Looked like they were pretty good at changing the timing to me. I could miss it though, I do like to use fast forward. Lol
I would let them do to pulls on my engines anytime. Each to his own though. Hope the owner got the carb to Nick before he has to pull it off the pump. If he didn’t get it done before today that ship probably sailed. I think dyno day for videos is often Saturday up there. I still think they could hit 400 HP if he worked at it a little more. Nick generally waits for the owner to be the for the last dyno pulls. I think that little voodoo cam is more cam than most give it credit for, it likely has a fair amount of power more left if they work at it more. The actual seat timing of the 702 at .006 is 267 int, 276 exh, which is more than Lunati’s advertise numbers, plus it has a little more top end power from the way it is ground, it holds the valves open for another 4-5* than the specs indicates because of the cams has longer duration on the closing side than the opening side. It is really only a few degrees shorter on the intake closing than a 068. The 068 is a little bigger yet the way it’s lobes are spread out, but the 068 at .006” tappet is only in the lower 270s @.006”, I don’t know extactly the .006” numbers for the small Pontiac cams, but the much higher duration rating for the ,066, 067, and 068 come from specs at lower lifts. FWIW, a 068 with 1.65 rockers would likely provide very similar performance to this small voodoo cam. That is a common combo. The 214,224 white box cams with bigger rockers will come close too. I have a very similar power output to this 455 in one of my cars. I have had 1.70s 60 e/t’s ft in a 4000 lb car with that combo. For sure the small cam combos leave a considerable amount of Hp from being tapped into, but they can also surprise you how well they run. I have done quite a few 455 Pontiacs almost set up similar to the dyno engine also, the cam being the main difference. Most common set up for me in 455s have actually been with the 96 heads, stock q jet and and RA manifolds, upper 9s compression. I still run one, we have probably built 8 of them. Even with some well thought out HFT and bigger sft and roller cams, using pump gas they kind of hit a wall at 450 hp with stock d ports and the RA manifolds. Last edited by Jay S; 01-29-2022 at 10:06 AM. |
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