Muscle Car TV....360 build

dgc333 said
I don't understand why everyone is so wound up about this show. They were quite clear that they were doing a budget build that was close to stock. They also were quite clear that in a couple of weeks that they would be tearing it apart and build it for power. They recently did they same thing with a 460 Ford and a 454 Chevy, build it close to stock then go crazy.

The 350 Chevy they use as dyno mule was initially built the same way as the 360 and made less than 300 HP.

I was quite impressed with the torque curve of the 360 and it was about perfect for a cruiser. And at 314 HP that was more than the 340 4bbl came from th factory with.

We get spun up because Hot Rod shows and mags have a history of slighting the Mopar crowd and doing a real crappy job of building demonstrator engines. In one instance, one magazine declined to build a Mopar small block using the claim that it would not finish under the budget cap. We got a real shot in the arm when MP put out the 360cid/380hp crate engine, which basically stuffed the Chevy and Ford small blocks by not only beating the hp they advertised, but by beating the MP advertised hp, hitting the 400hp mark out of the box.