Well,looks like i will be running the stock longblock a little longer then expected. A deal fell through for me selling my longblock and getting a shortblock,so now im looking to buy a block.
Plus with a possible strike and or layoff looming in the next 5 months....i can get too monetarily involved with a build up set on 9's.

On a lighter note,I ordered Tubular K member,manual rack,Baily LTCC (ls1 8 coil conversion),and am having a torque arm fabbed up. I will also be swapping valve springs and shooting for the 10's with a "stock" longblock.

 

Good luck racin'...you should be able to do it...I did

I was gonna change the bottom end over the winter, but decided to see what the stock bottom end is capable of....

As far as I know....no one has turned a 9second pass in an all stock bottom end LT1.