what hp will a 350 4 bolt main take

[badmatt]

io know of a stock block with billet caps and a half fill living to 1200RWHP

[kovert]

the car will be a street driven car so i dont think filling the block will be smart at all for cooling.. my goals ide like to make around 700 to 800 rwhp ..

im kind of on a budget which is no good for building high hp engines but the aftermarket blocks that i have found seem to be 1500+ dollars which i can pick up a factory 4 bolt from a friend for 300 thats a big diffarence in pricing if you guys know of a place to get cheaper aftermarket blocks please let me know i would love to make 1000hp with a aftermarket block but 1500 is not gonna happen for me after machining decking etc those blocks are even more...

[badmatt]

Originally Posted by kovert

the car will be a street driven car so i dont think filling the block will be smart at all for cooling.. my goals ide like to make around 700 to 800 rwhp ..

im kind of on a budget which is no good for building high hp engines but the aftermarket blocks that i have found seem to be 1500+ dollars which i can pick up a factory 4 bolt from a friend for 300 thats a big diffarence in pricing if you guys know of a place to get cheaper aftermarket blocks please let me know i would love to make 1000hp with a aftermarket block but 1500 is not gonna happen for me after machining decking etc those blocks are even more...

run a bigger oil cooler...

[camcojb]

[QUOTE=kovert]the car will be a street driven car so i dont think filling the block will be smart at all for cooling.. my goals ide like to make around 700 to 800 rwhp ..

im kind of on a budget which is no good for building high hp engines but the aftermarket blocks that i have found seem to be 1500+ dollars which i can pick up a factory 4 bolt from a friend for 300 thats a big diffarence in pricing if you guys know of a place to get cheaper aftermarket blocks please let me know i would love to make 1000hp with a aftermarket block but 1500 is not gonna happen for me after machining decking etc those blocks are even more...[/QUOTE]


too high for a stock block if you want longevity. Yeah, it'll last some amount of time, but you're definitely beyond what that block was engineered for.

Put it this way, you will spend way more than the $1200 difference if/when you break it and have to replace it and all the parts you lose in the process.

I'm sure you realize that $300 block will need all the machining that the aftermarket block does, if not more.
Jody

[Scotch]

[QUOTE=kovert]the car will be a street driven car so i dont think filling the block will be smart at all for cooling..

I've seen cars run filled blocks on the street, but they were filled only to the bottom of the freeze plugs and had killer cooling systems for both coolant and oil.


my goals ide like to make around 700 to 800 rwhp ..

There are lots of ways to do that. Now, how are you going to put all of it to the ground?

im kind of on a budget which is no good for building high hp engines but the aftermarket blocks that i have found seem to be 1500+ dollars which i can pick up a factory 4 bolt from a friend for 300 thats a big diffarence in pricing if you guys know of a place to get cheaper aftermarket blocks please let me know i would love to make 1000hp with a aftermarket block but 1500 is not gonna happen for me after machining decking etc those blocks are even more...


If I could offer some advice, I'd say go with the $300 block and make 500 hp with it. It can take that without trouble. Get the car dialed in so it can use every one of those 500 horses, and you can learn to drive it with that level of power. Then, look into building another engine with the aftermarket block.

Why build a 750 RWHP car that can only put 350 horses to the ground? Dialing in your suspension and getting traction is harder than making horsepower with a small-block Chevy. Get the hard part figured out first, and then turn up the wick on the easy part.

~SP~

[Bad94]

Read this post.

http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/in...?topic=61219.0

[kovert]

ok well here is a motown block and its stuffed with 4340 crank eagle h beams and all the goodies is this guy under rating this motor he rates it at 700 .. and its 4200 dollars.... i can find a ford stroker that is rated for 1000+ hp for that price i was allways told its cheaper to build chevy have the rolls turned now that i decided to do a chevy are chevys more to build now???