You learn something new everyday. How long will an LA small block hold up at 550 horsepower
I can talk to the car owner for 5 minutes watch a run and tell you for a fact if it’s an underachiever. Been doing it for decades.
You might not be able to, but other of us can. And do.
It never ceases to amaze me that guys who can’t build an engine (that means doing the machine work and the tuning) come on forums like this and argue with the guys who can do it. It gets pretty ******* old, really fast.
You are knocking an engine build whose work you can’t possible duplicate and then claim it’s bad numbers and ****.
**** that. I know I‘m tired of the ****. And IIRC you argue header size like an expert but your testing is minimal at best.
Same ****.
You don’t have a ******* clue what it takes to make 650 horsepower or how to tune it, or how to make it get down the track, or you’d be doing it.
You just write the check.
you have no clue what you are talking about. Anybody can talk to the car owner and get an idea.
that’s my whole point. Nothing about the cars, owners, combo’s ET’s was mentioned, so it’s kinda impossible to figure out what it is or isn’t, or did I miss something in this thread that was posted and I didn’t see, wise ***.
And regards knowing how to make 650 horsepower, I have done it.
my background is engineering, for many years, anybody who knows me knows that.I am very capable of knowing exactly what parts will make what power. But yes, I am not into screwing motors together, zero interest in it, best left to professionals. Seen too many hacks try to build stuff that runs like **** and breaks all the time. No thanks, I have enough going on in my life I don’t want or need to deal with stuff like that.
regards my current car/ combo, I have said from day 1 it isn’t going to be a max effort sterling deal.
my current health situation doesn’t allow for anything that I need to spend much time working on….I have enough sense to know I am running a 40 over stock block that I would rather not have grenade and perhaps cut short my racing season( when I don’t know how many I have left). I am dealing with emphysema and a bad back from a botched VA Surgery. I used to work on my stuff and others stuff, health has slowed me WAY down last few years
For the first time in my racing life I have intentionally put a piece of wood under the gas pedal, so I can enjoy racing trouble free for as long as I can.
you think I don’t know a dinky 560 gross lift cam is killing my combo’s potential, of course it is. But I have zero interest in chasing it anymore.
the new headers( which hopefully helps the value of the car when I am gone and my wife deals with selling it) is pretty much the end of the line.
hopefully it wakes the car up a little more and I am happy with it at that point.
not interested in moving further away from the streetability the car currently has, make it harder to get rid of.
