Easy ways to make power:
-Lighter rotating assy
-Roller Camshaft (Hydraulic Roller is fine)
-lighter/lower friction vale train (beehive springs also help)
-stroker
-airflow
-complete combustion w/o detonation
-control oil
my engine has everything but the stroker. I didn't go stroker because I wanted the car to hook on the street (didn't need the extra torque). Turns out it made 400 lb-ft at 2800 rpm anyway. 455 lb-ft at 4000, and 470hp at 6000.
It rips. Pulls 3.23's like a champ and hooks well enough on the street. Pulled 13.5 in Hg with the 750 double pumper at 950 rpm. I was looking at my EFI log today and it now is running 58.5 kPa at idle which is over 17 in Hg at the same rpm, so yeah this thing is streetable.
We took a TON of rotating weight out of this thing with the pistons and K1 rods. Beehive springs and the hydraulic roller helped a lot. The heads are stock edelbrock other than the valve job (no porting). Box stock intake. You just plain can't throw it together with X or J heads, the old heavy TRW/FM pistons, flat tappet cam and expect it to make this much power.
Those LSX engines don't make all that power for no reason. The same tricks they applied work on these too.
