Bought the Engine and Trans last night from the guy. It came out of a 71 Catalina. The block is a 481988 and has the TH400. Bone stock, never been apart. Gave him $500 for it. I will be overseas for the next 6 months so now it is time to start shopping and researching for the build. Thanks for all the info. As stated before I would really like to build this for a great weekend cruiser head turner. If I am way off let me know. Just spit balling. With all the info so far posted up top. Bore 30 over, 461 Stroker kit, Aluminum heads, long tube headers, Exhaust cut outs, Cam, Aluminum intake, 4 barrel carb, HEI distributer, good oil pump, good fuel pump, etc. With all that I want to do I want to run off pump gas. So if I am way off please advise. All the input is well welcome. Attached is the 400 I bought. Thank you
I think you are on track, but it also depends on what CR you are try to go for also. With alum heads you should have no problem going as high as 10.2 or 5 and running 93 pump fuel. But with iron heads you will have to keep the CR down to 9.5 or lower I believe maybe 9.2 to be able to run pump gas. I think Oldschool can tell you for sure.
