Magnum shortblock capability.
@1Fast340 I would say it would take a big cam to be looking at a 7500 and plus shift point along with a set of big heads. That combo would move up the rpm peak and shift point a good bit making the engine a strip only deal. (Something most of hot street strip guys and engine builders get.)
Are you thinking of going down this route?
Not looking at going quite that far in the first version of where im going if im going Magnum,but if i go for a Magnum there is quite a big chance i will end up pushing things that far later on,also depending on if i end up with a 318 or 360,i know the 360version is the obvious option but im alitle retarded from time to time and might just decide that i want to go totaly against comon sence again.
I did put that number up there to see if anyone knew what would fail if anything at that point,certainly not a dealbreaker by any means but good to know how far things can be pushed,considering how people are going overkill on everything just buying the latest and greatest and forgetting the good old hotroding spirit of doing more with less and doing so while not following the book so to speak.
Its quite funny talking to friends with chevys and when oilingsystems are brought up in conversations they get all confused when you try to explain to them what moparguys says needs to be done for our fine smallblocks to survive at higher rpm.
I was at a race at Keystone several years ago and was introduced to one of the guys that worked on the Ritter small block mopar. We sipped a few adult drinks together around the campfire a couple of nights bs'ing of coarse about Mopars. I enjoyed the heck out of listening to him and one of his big gripes was that most, not all but most Mopar guys insisted on building "stroker smallblocks." He being a stock or super stock racer knew what the smaller engines were capable of. That kinda etched a mark in my brain so I have a .040 360 block on a spare stand that I bought a couple of years ago. I tried to buy a stock stroke chevy journal crank as the one that came with it was a cast 360 crank cut down to chevy size. That kinda scares me because I want to push this build HARD. I talked to Molnar so far and checked out Ohio crank with zero luck. Seeing how easily my Sons Duster at 3200 pounds runs 10.30's with a 600 lift roller has me thinking 9.50's is doable at 2860 in my Duster without beating on it to hard.
That must have been an intresting conversation for sure,its amazing to listen to people who are realy sharp and has been there,done that and probably lost the t-shirt in the process:D
I do understand why people are running strokers,i just think there is alot of performance to be found at stock stroke aswell and less hard on the block even thought the oilingsystem and valvetrain takes a beating,just a mather of adding gear to make up for the extra rpm it takes to make the power and thats where you get your torque back.
It will last until it splits in half.
Nice of you to bring up Ford products in this thread but i think they call their bread and butter engines "Windsor" here in moparland we have Magnums and those have stronger blocks and i thought they where more suspect to have lubractionfailures over Fords blockfailures.
