Thanks for chiming in here Jerry
I did contact Brezinski a year ago and looked at having them disguise a set of heads with some undercover port work on a stock intake, but later decided to forego that. I actually sent the block out for machining last week and from what I learned Friday, it's already advanced through the machine shop and will start going together early this week. For this CE block, I decided to upgrade the rods and will be using a set of forged I beams with 7/16" ARP bolts rather than pinks. Also planning on running a Comp 12-673-4 Nostalgia Cam in this one and see how that is with a tighter lash and modern ramps.
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I'm trying to avoid getting carried away with too much cam in this one (if there is such a thing) and keep the motor together so it lives longer.
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The stock 186 heads are freshly done and assembled with new valves, springs, screw in studs/guides, and also had a little port clean up while they were being freshened. I may just run the 186 heads for now and try and keep this thing under 7200 rpm between shifts. It's hard not to hotrod the crap out of everything as
I really like horsepower and
long duration solid cams, but at some point I have to reason with valve spring limitations, power brakes and keeping this car acting like the Z that it is. As plans firm up next week, I'll decide how I'm going to dress out the top end (Day II) but it now looks like the 302 will follow close to it's original HP rating with a few tweaks to wake it up a little & have it stay together with better internals. I may even run the stock intake since it's sitting here restored with its 4053 carb (undecided on this yet).
Another idea I am toying with is having my painter prep and paint a flat GM hood for the car and put it back to the way it was delivered when Kym first got it back in 69. Pop that flat hood with the fly breather, the Rev Pol ignition and vintage headers installed and this may be just the right look under that hood. That will also allow me to fit the Sun gauges on the cowl since I cannot fit (3) of them up there with the cowl hood on the car. I still like the look of hood mounted gauges and those combined with vintage Cragars & Lakewood bars will have the Green Z looking sweet'
