I am with Scott, all aluminum 540. complete motor 425LBS, so it is light, and serious power potential. With a baby 114 LC smooth idleing 255 cam, only 630 lift, with little bitty 310CC heads, we made 684HP at 6400RPMs and started the pull at 3000RPMs and was 610 torque and held over 600 the entire pull. And those are not big numbers for a 540CI. With a set of AFR and a nice hydraulic roller, you can see 700 docale horsepower you can drive. Coming from someone that knows a thing or two about hard chargeing pump gas small blocks (my street racer goes mid 10s on motor at full weight, I can also tell you to make that power it has some serious camshaft in it. The differnce in Michaels 540 and my 404 is night and day for driveabilty. My 400 sounds like somehitng is wrong with it cruising around and it does not clear out to 4000RPMS, LOL! the 540 purrs at 2000 in overdrive.
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Frank Serafine
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