cornering question

"Just sliding that 383 in there" and THEN deciding if he likes it IS NOT an intelligent way to go about things unless your Bill Gates in which case you can do financially irresponsible things like that. For the average joe doing a little research "like dazedduster is doing" in the form of asking "Hey can these things handle with a big block?" Then make a choice based upon others already spent money real world expierence, and not end up saying "Crap I spent all this money and this thing handles like the exon valdez with engine failure, wish someone had said something".