Wake up my 289?
6th Gear Member
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 8,007
From: Citrus County, FL
RE: Wake up my 289?
thats nice and all, but your better off buying separate so you can get REAL valve seals and a double roller timing chain. however, they would give you the spring and retainer part numbers so you can still get the right pressure. a good rule of thumb is about 100 lbs. of seat pressure on a .500 lift cam, 120 if your planning on winding the hell outta it.
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Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 10,468
From: California
RE: Wake up my 289?
Whatever you do, don't skimp on springs. It's a rather often overlooked performance part, but no engine will function well, or RELIABLY with crappy springs. If you float a valve and trash the cam/lifters and put a valve through a piston, when you're spending all that money putting Humpty back together again, you'll wish you'd spent the extra hundred or sobucks on better springs
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 2,166
From: Oregon
RE: Wake up my 289?
ORIGINAL: my77stang
i'll be damned if that doesnt sound like "step 1" LOL 
r6, summitracing.com is widely known to be one of the best sources for these things. other places are jegs.com, and although their website fails terribly, P.A.W. out of california will send you a catalog for about 10 bucks thats thicker than a city phone book (and most of the time they are cheaper than the other guys)
not to shop for you, but this right here would make you one hellofa happy camper....
Carb
Intake
Cam and Lifter Kit (cheap, good performer, and its the maxxxxx you can go with stock springs)
Timing Chain
Cam swap gasket set
rough estimate is 700 bucks, you could do cheaper by hunting on ebay and craigslist too
If you're just looking for a few mods to make a bit more fun to drive then I'd go with these things to start with:
[ul][*]New carb (like the ones My77stang recommended)[*]New intake manifold[*]Headers[*]H-pipe or X-pipe with high flow mufflers[/ul]
Maybe later on go with some new heads with roller rockers, a new cam, ignition system, etc...
[ul][*]New carb (like the ones My77stang recommended)[*]New intake manifold[*]Headers[*]H-pipe or X-pipe with high flow mufflers[/ul]
Maybe later on go with some new heads with roller rockers, a new cam, ignition system, etc...
r6, summitracing.com is widely known to be one of the best sources for these things. other places are jegs.com, and although their website fails terribly, P.A.W. out of california will send you a catalog for about 10 bucks thats thicker than a city phone book (and most of the time they are cheaper than the other guys)
not to shop for you, but this right here would make you one hellofa happy camper....
Carb
Intake
Cam and Lifter Kit (cheap, good performer, and its the maxxxxx you can go with stock springs)
Timing Chain
Cam swap gasket set
rough estimate is 700 bucks, you could do cheaper by hunting on ebay and craigslist too
Don't forget some NOS stickers, they add like 50 hp.
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