Hi Guys! I just discovered this Team Buick site by accident while looking for gaskets, what a good idea! Us buick guys are spread all over and trying to run across others just out there driving around is a long shot. This is a good idea. I'm mostly a str8 fan but have other buicks and cars, so finding a place that str8'ers can talk is very cool. Now that I've read through the whole site,I discovered that there's a number of guys intrested in getting more power from the str8. Exactly the same questions I had in 1966 when my granddad gave me his '50 buick. I read everything I could find, hunted down hiperf parts, etc. What I found was pretty much what everyone else found: not much. So, I came up with my own R&D program. Well boys, after 35-40 years of trying stuff, making stuff, and gettin' a mech. eng. degree, I can tell you that the Buick Eight can make power, more power than you'd ever think. Killer ignitions? Yup. Displacement. Yah. Headers. Oh sure. Finned valve covers, pushrod covers, big series dual carbs on small series engines? Been there, done that. Latest project? How about dual quads? Just has a nice ring to it, don' it? DUAL QUADS. Yah! Everything that was anything had 'em. Well, I was going to write up a few paragraphs and tell you how to build str8 that takes a back seat to no V8 but will put you in the back seat when called upon. I started writing in a ring binder all the stuff I've done and develope a path that someone could follow and build a killer str8. I've filled 1/3 of the binder and I'm out of the block. I think that I could overwhelm this site. A different approch is possiably in order here. Prehaps a ring binder sort of book thing on how to do it. This could turn into something with a life of it's own, I don't write books. Need to think about this one. Alleycat