What’s cheating? The slip said 1/4 mile.But that's cheating though. It doesn't count.
Besides, every one here knows a 12 is not that easy. It take decades and ten's of thousands of dollars and a swear jar the size of a contractors dumpster to even approach its door..
Perhaps the guy was on a 1000' track and didn't know it??
Why not a 175 shot?
This...I would. It's not my block.
but..
215hp+175hp=390hp.
390hp<500hp
The question is: what happens if the factory headers can't get 400hp worth of exhaust through them?
If you had TMH's on a stock engine, I don't see why it couldn't handle 250hp shot?? I know they did back in the day!
Good thing is, it should only set you back a junk yard motor ($300-500) and a weekend to swap it if things don't go as planned. Cheaper than blowing up a built motor you have five to fifteen thousand invested in. Five thousand dollars will buy you a lot of used motors and nitrous. Once the tune is buttoned up and you dialed the launch, your biggest concerns are if the gasoline you just bought is fresh and do I have enough nitrous for one more run.
But as for me?.. Never touch the stuff. Cheaters never prosper..
...I've heard.
MY noids max out at 150 shot. 175 is in the works tho. I’m pulling the engine out this winter and doing a small simple build. I’m opening up the ring gap In the bottom end, adding a HO cam. Arp head studs and better valve springs. Then sending a 175 shot through it with a nitrous progressor.Why not a 175 shot?
Guy out here pushing 819 on a stock block bottom end 302... so the whole always splitting at 500 is a mythI wouldn’t
Stock 5.0 block is a weak link, seen block cracked in half with a little over 500 hp, lots of pics of broken 5.0 blocks on the web
It’s not really a myth. It’s fairly accepted, and proven, they are good up into the 500s. One thing I’ve learned about HP is that guys LOVE to guess, exaggerate, and outright lie about what they are putting down. If I didn’t see it make a dyno run, I take just about everyone’s claims with a grain of salt.Guy out here pushing 819 on a stock block bottom end 302... so the whole always splitting at 500 is a myth
Guy out here pushing 819 on a stock block bottom end 302... so the whole always splitting at 500 is a myth