You remind me of myself when I was your age...
I also had a 2nd gen, and got it right before going to college ( MET as well ).

My car had a Pontiac 350 though, not a Chevy 350, regardless, the same hurdles occured.
I would stick with the 350, as I swapped to a 400 when I was your age and that right there broke my budget... even though half the crap from the 350 swapped over.

Do things slowly, heads, intake, cam, headers... you should get to your 300hp goal eventually.

Where are you taking MET?

 

Its a comp cam i think, was only run for a couple weeks before being replaced. Thanks for the carb suggestion ill look into it.

 

Im at Okanagan College right now in the 2 year diploma program. I plan to do a bridging program once i have experience as a technologist but where and when is still to be decided.

That is a good idea, i want to slowly funnel my money into this car, not do everything all at once.

What was your compression when you had the 350? I want to find a way to bump my compression without stroking the motor. Will machining the motor be a good idea?

 

I actually had a dream i put a 100 shot the other night... it'd work minty with my auto trans. How long would my internals last with a daily driver? A friend of a friend had a car that had the nitrous engaged once the gas pedal was more than 2/3rds engaged haha.
I'm pretty sure it was the Comp XE 268 cam i was offered but im not sure.

 

Which is exactly what I recommended. But they're only around $165 new with lifters.

 

Really? I must've misunderstood. What lifter size would you reccommend? .050" is stock.

 

Also the cam I was going to recommend, and I had the Pontiac version of that cam in my 350...
Worked great on the low compression engine.
You can do little things, intake, headers, tiny cam, the heads are going to hold you back until you get better ones.

Machining the block is not an option, at least not on a budget. You are better off getting decent heads.

 

Looked at the holley site and looking at the chart they suggested the 570cfm or 670cfm based on max rpm. The 670 is about 410 canadian plus tax out of the box.

 

You could always search around for a 400 crank for cheap or free and have the mains turned down to 350 size. It's been awhile since I dabbled in Gen I stuff but I think you have to shave off 0.010??? I forget... But If you can get a cheap crank that machine work shouldn't cost you $100 at a local shop.

But as everybody else has said, smogger heads are crap. I learned that the hard way when I put my first 350 out of a suburban into my mid-80's 3rd Gen (originally a v6 car).

Thought it had the powah!!! 8.0:1 (or worse) compression and horrible flow != power. hehe Although I was like 15 at the time so my incompetence is maybe a little bit excusable. I learned a lot anyways!!!

 

Hm, i have access to my class machine shop i could probably CNC the heads down 0.010, it has .01 of a thou tolerance so i can get it pretty close. I'll double check the number if i can find something off google.

 

i spent over 10k on a swap with all supporting "crap" to go along. granted ill never sell her. love it

 

I would put your money towards heads, using them and a different gasket to bump compression should help quite a bit. the better flowing heads and increased compression will provide better gains for other mods.

300rw is still going to be tough, after you do heads, cam, intake, headers, maybe a better carb you will hit or surpass it, but thats a while away.

If you stroke the motor your going to need bigger, better flowing heads.

Goodluck

 

Thanks, 300 at the crank will be my goal for this year. 300rw will probably come with the jug, but theres alot of time and money i have to spend untill then.

 

Ok heres a top half SBC engine rebuild kit on ebay that i am looking into.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/SBC-Top-Half-Dart...ayphotohosting

It consists of dart ss 72cc heads, holley contender intake manifold, afb 600cfm carb, a mild hydraulic cam and lifters, plus some other chrome goodies for about 850$ can.

My other mods would be magnaflow exhuast, and i switched my gears to 4.57's!!!!!!!

Lots of people hype up flowmaster exhuast, but i hear it actually doesn't even "flow" that well. Is magnaflow the way to go?

And am i missing a piece to the puzzle thats not allowing my other mods to reach full potential?

 

Hard to say what heads you need unless you know what pistons you have. I know that 72cc usually yield SOMEWHERE around 9-9.5:1 on a 350 SBC, but those are with flat-tops or 5cc valve reliefs. ...

If your car truly has 8:1 compression, you probably have dished pistons somewhere in the 20cc range and would need to be somewhere in the 50cc range to have anything that resembles power.

Plus, those heads you listed are garbage 165cc intake-runner iron heads. Next.