8k rpm ...

Don't let the self proclaimed DR . Give you info ..If you reduce your rotating Mass by knife edging and lighting your crank have pistons made with a small block Chevy wrist pins thin ring pack with gas port holes and smaller skirts use high side of your clearances to get your parasitic resistance down to a bout 10lbs to rotate your lower end..Get some Program Billet steel 4 bolt main caps and a good Machinist to do your work.. Of course you need to run a sump style oil pump,Good heads, cam and valve train..Not going to give you all My secrets..lol But I shift mine at 7,600 to 7,700 and Pulls up to that #



LOL. What the hell is a sump style oil pump? Unless you mean a dry sump?

4 bolt caps on a production block is a waste of money and downright ignorant. There isn't enough materiel in the pan rail to move ANY load out there. Chrylser didn't start filling the pan rails on the T/A blocks and every other race block often that for giggles. Just dumb advice.

Rotating mass isn't nearly as important as you'd like it to be. You have to get OIL to the RODS. If you can't do that, you're done from the jump.

And 7600 isn't 8000. Not by a long shot.