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.
What I meant was, everyone wants to know the power level this will take, what that will take. That's no clear cut answer. Yours may take 500HP. Someone else's may take 650. The rest of the question is always left out. How much will it take "before somethin bad happens", so I always say "until it splits apart" or "until somethin bad happens", because you simply never know there are so many variables.
Where your assertion I brought Ford into this came from, I haven't a clue, but if it makes you feel better.........I'll tell you the story of a childhood friend of mine named Mike Mason. Those that have me on Facebook can at least verify he is on my friend list.
He had a 89 Mustang I believe it was years ago.......had like 93 front and rear facias on it. It was a "oddball" cubic inch displacement, because he got the wrong rotating assembly but built it anyway. A 382 or some such if memory serves. Stock 351 block based engine.
He never got on a chassis dyno that I know of, but that car used to run 8.40s all night long at The Silver Dollar Raceway in Reynolds, Georgia. He even used to get it out to the local Brewsters ice cream store in North Macon. He even kept the 8.8 rear axle under it until of course the inevitable happened and then he went with a Dana. I lost track of him sometime around then, but now he comes in the store almost every Saturday with a mutual friend, Mark Byrd, so I can ask Mike what became of the car and engine. I think he sold it, but it may still be around.
Mark, (also on Facebook) has a 1500 plus HP Chevy 1500 5.3 "street truck" with one large by huge turbo under the hood. Mark's race car is called "RIP"
Here is RIP makin a pass.
They are finally gettin that car worked out as evidenced by it "gittin with it" in this video. All I know is the car is "between this HP level and that" since it's a money car and they won't say. The turbo on that car is 2 or 3 times big as my head. Search more on youtube, he does a kinda walk around on it. It's a very professional car.
Will that block eventually fail? Probably, but not before it makes them a lot of money, I bet. And we've been talkin about 650 chump change here? lol
