Survival Motorsports Road Trip / Build Thread

[Detroit Bill]

My 17 year old son and I took a road trip (1 hour) to visit Barry Rabotnick who owns Survival Motorsports. Barry could not have been kinder or more generous with his time. We got a full shop tour which included an A to Z lesson on how an engine worked for my son. My son understood suck, squeeze, bang, blow but was a little sketchy on intake, valve train, head flow and things like that. Looking at the parts and pieces of partially assembled engines really helped solidify his understanding.

We looked at sets of Felony Heads and compared them to Edelbrock heads.
The Felony un-ported castings were vastly different than the Edelbrock castings.
The runners were certainly more open and appeared better flowing for what that's worth but Barry explained that they were not significantly larger volume to keep velocity up. He was kind enough to show us the mule castings and explain the development process. It was very interesting and cool to hear it explained fully. There is much more to the head that I would not attempt to explain but the main point would be that the head will flow more with no porting than a stock Edelbrock head and with porting it would flow a significant amount of air more than what is needed for my build.

We are going to build a 482 pond block engine with Felony heads, Cast Scat crank, Scat H beam connecting rods, and a Blue thunder dual plane or Edelbrock Performer RPM intake single 4 bbl. The goal is 600 600. So we set the build in motion and I am excited for the process to begin (which will take a couple weeks at minimum to begin).

All of this is going in a new Superformance with Tremec 600. I am going with 17" standard style rims, powdercoated a dull black with Nitto NT05's.

Super excited and fortunate to have someone with Barry's knowledge that close by. He invited us to come by and look at the progress of the build and be there for the dyno session.