another freaking engine build thread

I will say this though, you don't need compression to make good power-IQ52 has a thread over in the performance issues section where he took a stock bottom end 440 with ported 516 heads, a .509" cam, an M1 single plane intake, and it pushed over 450hp...with like 8:1 compression...and that's rounding up. I think he calculated it to like 7.85:1.