E-85 555 buildup- drag race by Jim Weise

3 minute(s) of a 44 minute read

Cylinder heads and top end

Nothing exotic here, a pretty conventional STG 2 TE head package, with an SP-2 intake, and E-85 dominator.

We did have to make the TE's worthy of the project.. they were, without a doubt, the worst set I had ever seen.

Here are the before and after numbers.

And a pic

Bolted them on with the .050 thick copper head gaskets.

With number 1 cylinder set up for mock up testing with checking springs.

And finished it up..

This is the last motor picture I have, before the dyno.. About this time the customer stopped by, and we finished it up, but I forgot to take the rest of the pics during the process.. With the guys standing right there, it becomes less important. Didn't think about the website at the time, but the rest of it was pretty straightforward.

One word tho..

Never ever trust anything.. the customer gave me what looked like a brand new Q/F E-85 Dominator

Didn't look so new when I popped the bowls off.. he had been running this thing on his 494, 3 months earlier.

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Can you imaging what would have happened to this brand new motor, if I started it up with that thing on it?

It's stuff like this that causes many a "I built a new motor and it failed, so (insert whoever or whatever the guy did not like ) screwed it up.."

The customer was there, and out of curiosity, I asked him "would you have just bolted this carb on?".. he said "Sure, it worked last year just fine".

The cardinal sin--- never trust any carb, I don't car if it was on the car that your folks drove to the hospital with to have you.. stuff happens, be smart.

And on to the dyno testing.

JW