70 mustang 351 cleaveland what to do on a budget

[smokin' joe]

I Need Help With My 351 Cleaveland It Is Needing More Horse Power It Has Some Mods Already

[Rod&Custom]

What kind of budget?

[smokin' joe]

Originally Posted by Rod&Custom

What kind of budget?

$1500 dollars max

[M3FordBoy]

I would say a cam, headers, intake, carb, and igniton system. You would have some money left over and then could look at rearend and suspension. It's up to you.

[smokin' joe]

Originally Posted by M3FordBoy

I would say a cam, headers, intake, carb, and igniton system. You would have some money left over and then could look at rearend and suspension. It's up to you.

I already have all of that

[M3FordBoy]

Do you have electric water poump and radiator fan? Or you could get roller rocker arms and lifters. There are also power pulleis. Have you ran a 1/4 mile just courious on how fast you are running.

[fearsomefairmont]

http://www.network54.com/Forum/119419

This forum is exclusively for Cleveland engines. The guys are very nice and helpful.

If you already have the mods like headers, cam, intake, carb, ignition, maybe you need to go more radical.

Put in a solid cam, roller rockers, some head porting, a low-rise single plane intake, some steeper gears in the rear-end.

And, most of all, if you have an automatic, a ~2800-3000 rpm stall converter.

You should get at least ~350 hp out of a well-built 351 Cleveland 2V, and AT LEAST 400 hp out of a decent Cleveland 4V.

The cleveland engines have by far the highest potential of any OEM small block engine offered by Ford.

Good Luck

[mitchdakid]

Originally Posted by smokin' joe

I Need Help With My 351 Cleaveland It Is Needing More Horse Power It Has Some Mods Already

Do you have aluminum heads on you 351 if not, that will be a great horspower increase,

[smokin' joe]

Originally Posted by mitchdakid

Do you have aluminum heads on you 351 if not, that will be a great horspower increase,

Yes, I agree but I'm only 16 and i dont have that kind of money thanks for the suggestion

[mitchdakid]

Originally Posted by smokin' joe

Yes, I agree but I'm only 16 and i dont have that kind of money thanks for the suggestion

I just bought aluminum heads for my 351 windsor for 1200.00. I know how the tight budget is I am 18 and trying to save for college too. Good luck

[smokin' joe]

Originally Posted by mitchdakid

I just bought aluminum heads for my 351 windsor for 1200.00. I know how the tight budget is I am 18 and trying to save for college too. Good luck

That would be a good idea but that might take awile but thanks for the idea!

[duplox]

Aluminum heads are nice, but pricey. Stock cleveland heads are very good to begin with, you should be able to get 350-550hp out of any cleveland without forced induction or aluminum heads.
I'm a regular on the 335 Cleveland forum as posted by FearsomeFairmont. Nice seein you here!
What exactly do you have on the motor right now? Many intakes are pretty bad, so just having an aftermarket intake doesn't mean squat. Clevelands are very picky about their cams as well. What do you have for a carb? 4v or 2v heads? What size headers? Exhaust?

[smokin' joe]

Originally Posted by duplox

Aluminum heads are nice, but pricey. Stock cleveland heads are very good to begin with, you should be able to get 350-550hp out of any cleveland without forced induction or aluminum heads.
I'm a regular on the 335 Cleveland forum as posted by FearsomeFairmont. Nice seein you here!
What exactly do you have on the motor right now? Many intakes are pretty bad, so just having an aftermarket intake doesn't mean squat. Clevelands are very picky about their cams as well. What do you have for a carb? 4v or 2v heads? What size headers? Exhaust?

thanx for replying so fast it helps me get closer to my goal

bored 30 over
balanced and blue printed
polished crank
flat top pistons
shot peened rods
lunati 520 lift cam
weiand intake
ported and polished heads
roller rockers
hooker headers
weiand water pump
electronic fuel pump
mallory electronic ignition
750cfm holly
3200 stall converter
3:55 spooled

and some other stuff like line lok (FUN FUN)
any other suggestions please send
P.S it runs 12.40

[duplox]

Looks pretty good. What 750 holley is that? double pumper or VS? What heads do you have, 2v or 4v, open chamber or closed chamber?
My recommendation would be if you don't already have 4v closed chamber heads, is to get them. Then ditch the weiand intake and get either a funnelweb with stuffers or a Strip dominator(NOT street dominator!). A bit bigger of a cam and you should be in the 11s. If its a 750VS, get a DP, at least for the track. They're cheap. If you want to change cams, your best bet is to get it through MME(http://www.mmeracing.com/). He's very knowledgeable about clevelands.

[smokin' joe]

Originally Posted by duplox

Looks pretty good. What 750 holley is that? double pumper or VS? What heads do you have, 2v or 4v, open chamber or closed chamber?
My recommendation would be if you don't already have 4v closed chamber heads, is to get them. Then ditch the weiand intake and get either a funnelweb with stuffers or a Strip dominator(NOT street dominator!). A bit bigger of a cam and you should be in the 11s. If its a 750VS, get a DP, at least for the track. They're cheap. If you want to change cams, your best bet is to get it through MME(http://www.mmeracing.com/). He's very knowledgeable about clevelands.

Thanks u are helping so much. My carb. is a double pumper and i am not going to go with a bigger cam because im only 16 and my car has to be driven on the street every day and im already geting 8 MPG but im from kansas so the gas prices are not to bad but bad enough. my dad and i went to look at tire for my 16 birthday and we found a pair of
295/50/R15 they would look so cool on my mustang.

P.S thanks again for the help and my heads are 2v