Oh lookie here, prime example;
Answer, because some people simply do not have the money to do a full and total rebuild. Isn't that what the low compresion question is about Moper?
With this statment alone, you shove the person with no money into a corner and make fun of him as being a cripple and shouldnt bother trying to have fun and make power with his engine.
I guess, "Broke/low income guys should not apply/subscribe to adding extra power to there engines."
Is the new answer, "If ya can't afford to rebuild the MoPar, go run a cheap *** Chevy?"
Not at all. If they can afford a full on rebuild, they can afford the better performance oriented hyper pistons. I just looked on SUmmit racing. The factory non-valve relief pistons, with thier low compression are $336 a set. KY 237s are $339 a set. So the hobbling has nothing to do with cost, and everything to do with sensibility and taking advantage of what's out there. If you are calling a ring and bearing job, with no new pistons, no lower end machining, just a degrease and some new wearables a complete rebuild, you're way off base already. I threw together a bunch of these over the years. They ran good for me. In several cases, much better than the more pricey complete proper rebuilds. But generally not as good as a proper rebuild, and generally lasted long enough, but not thousands of miles. You do get what you pay for. My point is KNOW what you could pay for and use it to your advantage. Simply saying "run flat tops way in the hole" is not making use of what you have available for the same money.
The answer is stop being so thin skinned and do some research.:joker:
Edit - I mean you're off base to what is by definition a rebuild job. If you mean a re-ring or freshen up, then no valve job changes should be permitted. I thnk we need to call it a good running stock engine that is upgraded to whatever, with bolt on performance parts. That's really what you're talking about here and in the past, that's what I have built. I'd still take the 440 for the stroke, or 383 for the higher factory static and easier-to-deal-with smaller bore over the 400 but that's just me.
