7500 RPM 302 Stroker Suggestions

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Originally Posted by xb-60

Very light car....small, high revving Windsor

This is spot-on within the context of this thread. If we're talking about small block Cobras, don't forget that they weigh a bit over half of what the average '60's / '70's American muscle car does and the addiction to big-inch, big-torque, low end luggers originated with the need to make these behemoths get up and move in a similar fashion to "true" (read that "smaller/lighter") sports cars; generally of the European persuasion, that satisfied generations of drivers using much smaller, higher-revving engines.

"Move" in the preceding sentence means only in linear terms, because no amount of torque and low-end grunt could overcome the laws governing changes in direction of a massive object rolling on skinny, bias-ply tires. The little sports cars were still plenty of fun and generally faster on any road that wasn't dead straight and 1320 feet long.

Having said all of that, the OP never said that this engine was going into a Cobra. "Trans Am inspired build" implies to me he may be thinking about a Mustang but even if that's the case, a Trans Am inspired 1st gen Mustang gutted for racing performance would still be a relatively light car.