after almost 3 years of waiting, my project car is finally going to be under way. setback after setback, i feel as though now i am finally financially stable enough (and my two daily drivers are fixed enough) to begin my project. i wanted to save up cash to buy much of my parts, but that was going to require about $8-10k. i broke down and just applied for and approved for a summit credit card so i can order my blueprint engines 383 stroker. im going to get all the major parts now that i need so i can at least get it running and worry about smaller stuff later. ill have to take it easy though as i will be running my stock rear for some length of time until i can afford a 12 bolt

 

kool is that the 3830? gona keep it tpi

 

yes and yes. hopefully black paint sticks to aluminum heads, i dont want prying eyes to immediatly know they arent stock...
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MLL-BP3834CT1/

 

sweet!, finally.

my dad might have a spare 12 bolt with 3.73 gears and posi lol since ur running a TPI on a 383, can you run a TPI on a 400sbc with mods without it being to much?

 

its going to take quite a bit to run tpi on a 400, and it has very limited air flow with the stock componants. carb is best, but i want to have fuel injection

 

well, i just ordered everything. here is a run down of the parts:
Blueprint Engines 383 stroker 420 hp, 450 tq
flex plate, balancer, 2400 stall B&M convertor
Hedman headers, y-pipe, 3 inch intermediate pipe (no cat)
UMI SFC's
Griffin radiator with trans cooler
Accel 36lb injectors
Accel plug wires, NGK plugs
Summit high torque starter
aluminum water pump
BBK 58mm throttle body
Holley adjustable FPR
misc. sensors and gaskets

So far its totaled $6500 and im still adding

 

woh,,, are you single handedly trying to turn the economy around. sounds like your gona have some fun.

 

idk about single handedly. i applied for and got the summit speed card with a self imposed limit of $5000, and have about $4600 on it now. namely the engine and bulk shipping items, then ordered the other stuff with my debit card and used regular shipping

 

yep half of what i did this last winter was the same thing. ive got about 25% of it paid off so far. still got about 5k to put into it before painting but i want to pay off what i did first. so is that everything to make it go down the road?

 

Awesome! Goodluck with it all. I'm still buying stuff for mine and seems the list just keeps growing.