Thoughts on this Side Oiler for sale ?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by FUNFER2

How do you like your 428FE/447ci ?
Give me some details.

Iron 428 block, honed, decked, and cleaned up .025 to 4.155, SCAT 4.125 crank, Wiseco pistons with Edelbrock heads matched to a Blue Thunder dual plane intake for a 10.6 CR. Erson roller rockers with a solid, flat tappet cam of "old school" specs -- 245/245 .525 at .050 with 114 LSA, installed with the intake center line at 109. A simple Holley 3310 vac secondary 750, slightly tweaked with an adjustable vac secondary canister so I don't have to monkey with the secondary spring. MSD ignition throughout, Canton road race pan, Centerforce aluminum flywheel. Over the last decade I've only had to do rather minor maintenance on it. The original balancer separated, so I replaced it with a nice new Romac balancer. The valves hold their lash, so you really don't even need to set them much. The carb is a breeze to adjust, and simply requires a bit of tweaking based on ambient temperature and humidity to have it running "perfectly." On the dyno, with side pipes attached, it's under 500HP. Each year I tend to drive it slower and slower. I wouldn't change anything on the build, and it looks, sounds, and smells as it should. You're not going to be able to build it for ten grand though, but blykins could probably clone it for $15k -- but he snickers at my cam.