Hey Guy's
John, yes I did a "one off" Shroud in the nose of the car. WHAT A DIFFERENCE it made. I started to make the shroud in two pieces, and quickly had to trash that idea. With that said my plans went astray, and no templates were made. I am running a Pusher, and puller fan from BeCool, it's thier 17, or 16 inch fan, and they ROCK. It blast air out my side luvers when the car is standing still. I have a high flow thermostat and it ia 180 with a 1/8 hole drilled into it to get the air out. The car runs cool, about 180-190 on the freeway, and 198-200 at the stop lights (not over 210) BUT, I think that I will go to a 190 deg Thermostat because in the winter it will never heat up at 180. I also had comments that my shroud does not let the air through the sides to allow the air at high speeds to escape. I have not seen a problem with this so far
Hey Cowtown,
I used Comp Hitec one piece pushrods, custom length, and 3/8 size. I had 5/16 two piece push rods in the car, but they were weak. When I built the motor the thought process was to go light on the valvetrain for the 7K pulls on the Big Block. This also did not go to plans, and I bent them doing a carb adjustment run. What actually happened is that the carbide tip broke off of the exhaust pushrod, and started all kinds of issues. The bigger pushrods were not much heavier, and twice as strong as the ones that I bent.
Keep it above 100...................
L8R,
Brian