Yeah i know but there are always some kind of general level that is somewhat safe to stay under even thought it may not be guaranteed that it will last, i know people are alitel cautios about giving this kind of advice for good reason,but i feel safe in saying that im aware that sometimes **** blow up far below what the parts should be able to take and sometimes they survive a bunch more than they should.
Just trying to bring back some good old hotroding into a hobby where alot of people seems to have got stuck in a mode of buying all the latest and greatest and doing things that are certainly not stupid but may be overly cautios so to speak.
The Ford reference comes from 302 Ford smallblocks being known to literarly split in half,blocks cracking straight thru the mains and camtunnel at some lever of punnishment that seems to be lower than what mopar smallblocks can handle.
That Camaro hauls it! nice!
From what little research i have done on Magnums they seem to handle alitle more punishment than LA blocks and comes with a few nice features such as one piece pan-gaskets, supposedly alitle taller lifterbores wich should be a nice feature,multirib belt for accessorys, better heads than LA motors(except that they seem to crack often) and that bolt angle on intakemanifolds should be nice,also found that they probably have the best intake manifold (indy)for big power available for standard heads.
It seems as if Magnum heads where a popular conversion on LA shortblocks 10 years or so ago then everyone went for edelbrocks and then later EQ or RHS heads but the stockish shortblocks dont seems to have many friends at all.
