The SBC I'm currently building has NASCAR tool steel connecting rods, a roller cam, a rev kit, and a gear drive for the cam. It's also got 255 cubic inches and it will run 9K RPM all day long and stay together. The ignorant mouth breathers who check it out won't be able to find a single casting number that doesn't scream "305"". It's going to be a very boring engine, right up to the time I decide to tickle the loud pedal. It's NOT going into a stovebolt, so all that performance isn't going to be wasted on a truck that handles like a hippopotamus on a wet clay bank, even if it has been butchered up with an M-II front end. I'm building a stroker 261 that will eventually find its way into the 55 1st. series 3100 I've got stashed out behind the barn, or maybe the 59 Burb sitting beside it. Both of them will look, ride, and handle like a real truck.
Jerry
