So I've gone and racked up 174,000mi on my cobra. She's still running strong, but an oil leak has developed at the rear of the block and I'm thinking I should have a plan for the near future. I would love to throw in a 347, but realistically it's a street car and a 302 will be plenty of fun in the canyons.
So my debate is this, should I;
A. Rebuild my 302
B. Find a junker with low miles and clean it up
C. Go for one of those $699 short blocks from LMR
My plans would include porting my cobra lower, a set of nice aluminum heads(most likely AFR 165's because they'll pass emissions and flow nice), and have a custom cam ground. I intend on keeping it NA. What size throttle body would be appropriate for such a combo? Will my 24# injectors be adequate? Should I just have a chip burned to handle my tune? I'm not trying to build a beast here, just something fun to drive that I can get good reliability out of. It's not my dd, but I want to be able to drive it every day if I feel like it. If I get it tuned up right I would imagine this would give me 300hp easy with nice torque across the board. Then I can blow some coin at Maximum Motorsports on suspension goodies since they're only 15min away from me.
So my debate is this, should I;
A. Rebuild my 302
B. Find a junker with low miles and clean it up
C. Go for one of those $699 short blocks from LMR
My plans would include porting my cobra lower, a set of nice aluminum heads(most likely AFR 165's because they'll pass emissions and flow nice), and have a custom cam ground. I intend on keeping it NA. What size throttle body would be appropriate for such a combo? Will my 24# injectors be adequate? Should I just have a chip burned to handle my tune? I'm not trying to build a beast here, just something fun to drive that I can get good reliability out of. It's not my dd, but I want to be able to drive it every day if I feel like it. If I get it tuned up right I would imagine this would give me 300hp easy with nice torque across the board. Then I can blow some coin at Maximum Motorsports on suspension goodies since they're only 15min away from me.