I have a 350 sbc with a Weiand Action-Plus Aluminum Intake, 1 inch spacer plate, 487X heads with 1.94/1.50 valves, Z28 .500 lift springs and a 278 duration cam with 222 @ 50 and a lift of .467. What would be a good torque converter stall and rear end gears to get the most out of this setup? I use this mainly for street purposes in a 72 fullsize truck weighing about 3500-4000lbs with driver. Some towing occasionally.
I would put in 3.73 gears if you're running bigger than stock tires in the back and have a non-overdrive trans. If you think that is abit steep then 3.55 would be a nice gear and also not too bad going down the highway. If I didn't use the factory converter I wouldn't go very much above stock.
A 265/75 would be pretty tall. Are you sure it isn't a 70 series? Either way I would go with the 3.73 gears. It will be alot more pep without any trade offs around town but going down the highway will be running plenty of rpm.
Yeah, the tires are made by Pirelli. I did some checking and they are about the only ones with that size tire. Right now I have 3.08 gears and they suck with my setup. I usually run around 2200-2400 rpm at 55-60mph. I don't do that much interstate driving, but when I do, I don't want to be running in the 4000rpm range. So, what would be your recommendation?
3.42 would be fine and still a big improvement over the factory gears. I can't find my little rpm chart for gear and tire size to get rpm. They have them all over the net though. Maybe you just have to bite the bullet and put in some 3.73 I did find those.
Completely rebuilt 350 and TH350 Trans, Hyper Pistons, 500 lift Crower Cam, Victor Jr Intake, 750 Q Jet Carb and a few other things, it's a monster! I like the umph I get with that stall.
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