A few questions for the pro engine builders out there...

B3RE is 100% correct, its your butt on the line when it leaves the door so if its not right then who gets blamed....the shop owner, not the customer who wants 26MPG 600HP and has to pass CA emissions but I want a really lumpy idle...probably 50% of customers have unrealistic expectations of real world engines...pretty hard to have a mild street build that run 9.50 in the quarter and gets good MPG as a daily driver. Everytime I get a "mild street build" but they want that Top Fuel Funny Car idle sound, I tell them to build a mild street build and get an MP3 of Funny Car idling and play it really loud on their stereo...if we built what the customer wants, we would be out of biz in a month from bad internet/press. I restored 3 67-69 barracudas for a guy that always grumbled about "wish it had more power" but didnt want to step up to the price of more power...on the 4th build, he said "I want this thing to be FAST, make it fast!!!. So we built a pretty nasty 5.9 that turned out about 480HP and 500 TQ bolted to Michelin Pilot 245/60's and he backed it up a curb at 70....but he finally stopped bitching about faster, more power etc. all it cost him was 2 new rims, new TTI's and a rebuilt 727:steering: