Birth of the Blue Missile

blue missile said
After talking to alot of shops, Mike Ware at muscle motors in Lansing will get the contract. he wants to punch out a 340R3 block to 472cuin with 750 hp I said so long as it will run92 octane Im good with that. Ill be removing the 545RFE and putting in an electric 6speed TCI, I have worked out the electronics for engaging the manual mode and paddle shifting from the steering wheel.
Its just a matter of the funds. Soon enough.
Andrew

If I can put my two cents in I'd refrain from muscle motors because we have had poor experience with them the 540 that is under the hood of my dads power wagon had severe blow by for a engine that was "rebuilt" after a lifter malfunction caused us to pull the engine. After we got it back home it sat for awhile and during that time we decided to put a solid roller car in it and take it down to the guy that built my 526 well upon first inspections the builder found 3 Chinese grade bolts where the arp bolts were supposed to be to hold the caps in place on the block, the piston rings were shot they looked re used and melted and the intake was black on the inside. On their dyno it supposedly made 1255 on 93 octane ( procharged) and 1188 tourque on 16 pounds on boost but ya that didnt happen it looked like it wasn't even dynoed after it was put together and when the guy that we took it to rebuilt it we could get it to make over 1050 hp and we know his dyno is right because my 526 made 734 hp in that same engine dyno and in the car made 670 rear wheel hp so I'd stay away from muscle motors and go with Ryan Johnson at shady dell speed shop he is a note able small block engine builder he gets stuff from all over the world. He has 4 r3 small blocks in there right now and he does the w8 w9 motors to for the late models around here

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