SSPerformance

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wheres the best place to buy a short block LS1

james562

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There is a couple of sales going on right now HPE has some on sale now along with SLP just about any sponsor on the board can hook you up!!!

TVWilkes

https://ls1tech.com/forums/sponsor-sales-specials/208080-forged-347-short-block.html

I have a special going on short blocks.

SSPerformance

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u guys do any stroker motors

TVWilkes

I can build you any short block ( stroker or non stroker ).

SSPerformance

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lohow much for a 402

racer7088

It depends on where you are and shipping and so on and so on but we do all our own machine work in-house at HPE and have built many race and street engines. We do what YOU need for our price and you get to talk to people that know what they are doing first hand if you need or want to as in me. There's only two people at my shop that do these engines and again one is myself. Feel free to call or email me anything you want as we do 500hp to 1500hp stuff every month. There are a lot of variables depending on what you need and right now I am having to deal with three guys that bought stuff from other shops that are all not right for their applications. It's all regular shelf stuff when for the same money they could have gotten the right parts or even the right shelf parts. Of course the people selling most of this stuff usually are more interested in clearing out what they already have in stock. Also we really set all critical clearances in our stuff and we bias this to the parts and application you are building. We don't build a 600 hp engine witha 300 shot the same as a 550 hp daily driver which is exactly what you are getting in a regular "crate" engine where they have no idea of what you are doing with it when it is being built!

racer7088

Also the above post is not a slam on anyone else in this thread but has just been my experience in general so far talking to real people on the net and LS1Tech about what has happened to them since the right questions and such were never asked of them when their stuff was built. Some of them have had issues and some have been fine but couldn't do what they wanted when they realized that the parts they had were not right. The problem is that 90 percent of the people selling engines and shortblocks and engine work in general on this site don't actually have anything to do with those services at all. They are not even in the loop except at the cash register so how can they even know what is going on with your stuff then?

SSPerformance

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all im looking for is a forged 402ci bottom end. i have cam and heads already

TVWilkes

I build and check every dimension on the engine.I am not someone just taking a dollar.When a customer calls,I answer the phone and I turn the wrenches.The machining services performed are second to none.Everything is custom built to the customers needs.

NA$TY-TA

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APE all the way. Best customer service i have ever had.... 2nd to NO ONE.
http://www.automotiveperformance.net/
And the fact im the customer of the month has nothing to do with it.
Thanks Chris.
Kyle

Steve Gunn

Consider MTI also

SSPerformance

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Mti????

Chris@AP-Engineering

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You can give us a call also. We build everything in house and every engine is spec'd out for your application. Give us a call and see what you think.

Thanks

SSPerformance

iTrader: (76)

Ok i think i wana do a 6.0L motor ... how strong is the a stock short block and what kinda compression can u get outa it

racer7088

You can get whatever compression you want depending on heads and displacement. The iron block is stronger than the aluminum block and of course has the larger bore. Strength is dependent on many things like tne and intended usage as well as parts such as pistons and rings etc.

SSPerformance

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what about if i where to get a stock 6.0 with low miles on it. and did arp rod bolts. my goal is to run 11.5 on motor then spray my way into the 10s

racer7088

How you setup the parts in the engine is also critical to how much power or abuse it will take before you have problems. You can't always fix all these problems at assembly time unless you have an in-house machine shop like we do. We have to hone in extra cylinder wall clearance sometimes or hone in more pin clearance etc. Sometimes things don't really clear like they should either. Sometimes the factory line hone is really big and you have low oil pressure etc. We fix things like that since it happens more than you'd think. How many LS1 deals on this board seem to have abnormally low oil pressure? There's reasons for this usually believe it or not. Few shops are checking real P to V on longblocks and the results on real race engines can be disastrous as it can also on street engines. Just remember that someone can always do a worse job for cheaper! We are not selling cheap shortblocks but we still have prices that are at or below the averages on most of these boards and we do every one of them like they are a 1000hp all out engine.

I'm working on some all forged setups that we can keep in stock besides the strokers and our prices are competitive on that stuff too.

racer7088

It will run for awhile. We get more work from stock engine with NOS than from anything else. If you rering the stock pistons and put some more gap in them you will last WAY longer though! Just be careful on the tune with the NOS.

WS-Sick

I can stand as a witness to what Terry just said above. I saw a work in progress at his shop yesterday. Looks like it's going to be a killer setup. I know you won't find anyone to beat the price either.