900 hp ? not a very wise investment with a factory block.
I'm sure Tim will tell you the same.
Pay now or pay dearly later.
How many of you would buy an aftermarket block in low deck height. Aluminum, cast iron, up to 4.500 bore size.
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I'm sure Tim will tell you the same.
Pay now or pay dearly later.
Right, there would be a lot of in front of the drawing board but inspiration I will post up in 1 minute.
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Gotta agree with that, especially N/A, or on nitrous. I think you can make a production block live, at least for a while, at 900 hp turbocharged, normal stroke, and not a lot of rpm.
If I were trying for 900, I think a good aftermarket block would be my first buy.
but I'm just trying to make 600.
Yes tim would say that lol.
He's been pushing me to go get a new block now. But going from low to rb it's not just a block it's nearly everything replaced.
33IMP
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950+hp, ..... AT NINE GRAND!?! YIKES. and with a production block yet. Did it make it off the dyno in one piece?
Yep
Id like to know that too, that thing was running pretty smooth
I'm wondering what the bore & stroke were ?
I can't imagine it's just stock stroke and .040 pistons
It sure isn't going to the grocery store.
It's probably only required to stay together for one race event. Freshened and magged on a weekly basis, if not just replaced.
Yeah back when it was built they probably had 50 of those blocks ready to go.
Back in the early 90's or late 80's Mancini was peddling virgin 400 blocks for 200 bucks, if I only knew.
No ****, damn
You could get a big block stroker from Speed a Motive for 4 grand, oh those were the days.
I talked with Richard Bradshaw a while back of bully having "The block" availability. The question was is a low deck 4.5 bore drilled for hemi head possible? He was quick to claim yes without any real answer on pushrod angle concerns.
I didn't get a warm fuzzy feeling with the interactions. So I paused. Then read some delivery issues that was being experienced.
I didn't get a warm fuzzy feeling with the interactions. So I paused. Then read some delivery issues that was being experienced.
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Lol, holy ****
My Keith black block is 4.500 and the mega block I bought was good at .030 (440). I had a 440source kit at .055 over and bought.030 pistons from Brandon because I was going to waste block thickness when the bores were so nice. I had to rebalance everything but ohhhh well. Then I sold it off 4-5 years ago when I was having so much fun with small blocks. The keith black block sits all together doing nothing.
Do you know how far the Keith black block can be bored beyond 4.500 ?
I’m guessing 4.510
A lot of the mega blocks were to thin at 4.500. Many couldn’t go there.
Oh, that's interesting.
When I order my block there was an option to have it clearanced for a bigger stroke but I didn’t see that as being necessary. 4.500 x 4.500 sounded good for me and if not a know a guy with an aluminum burr
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