where to buy motor
Rebuilding your stock engine will cost you around $2000 using all stock parts.
Rebuilding your stock engine and adding the necessary parts to get 400fwhp will cost you $4000, minimum.
This would be so much easier if you weren't so wishy washy.
Rebuilding your stock engine and adding the necessary parts to get 400fwhp will cost you $4000, minimum.
This would be so much easier if you weren't so wishy washy.
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cheeck out this link they did a head test
http://www.gmhightechperformance.com...n/viewall.html
http://www.gmhightechperformance.com...n/viewall.html
It's a fluff piece. Pretty much you shouldn't believe everything you read. Flow numbers are a lot like dyno numbers...
Golen has a "happy" dyno and is about the only place posting engine dyno numbers for LT1s. Even folks foolish enough to like Golen will admit their engine dyno to chassis dyno losses are 25% which is a bigger number than it would be on an honest engine dyno.
One of the Impala guys had issues after just a few thousand miles, when the opened it up they found a rodbolt crossthreaded the whole way. About the only explanation for that would be assembling the shortblock with air tools.
A stroker that barely manages 500fwhp is sad, I think a lot of you would be shocked at what a good heads/cam setup would make tested the same way.
Choosing one timing setting invalidated the whole test, different chambers are going to want different timing and 38 degrees is a lot for a modern efficient chamber. They probably figured out what head they wanted to shine and optimized on that to stack the "results".
This is all besides the recent 490+rwhp results we have seen from the AI ported 21 degree Trickflow with a hydraulic cam. A good setup making at the wheels what most of that did at the flywheel on a happy dyno.
One of the Impala guys had issues after just a few thousand miles, when the opened it up they found a rodbolt crossthreaded the whole way. About the only explanation for that would be assembling the shortblock with air tools.
A stroker that barely manages 500fwhp is sad, I think a lot of you would be shocked at what a good heads/cam setup would make tested the same way.
Choosing one timing setting invalidated the whole test, different chambers are going to want different timing and 38 degrees is a lot for a modern efficient chamber. They probably figured out what head they wanted to shine and optimized on that to stack the "results".
This is all besides the recent 490+rwhp results we have seen from the AI ported 21 degree Trickflow with a hydraulic cam. A good setup making at the wheels what most of that did at the flywheel on a happy dyno.
Don't take this the wrong way, but you have gotten advice from some of the fastest LT1 guys around and you throw that to the wind with catalog links and marketing you read. If you don't trust the advice here, you should go down to Jasper and get a warranty and get your stock car back on the road. If you're willing to wrench and take some advice from people that have dropped 10x your 4k budget, you may get something decent you can enjoy from their experience.
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The thing is I do wanna do alot of work to my car n im actually still messaging some of the people that gave me advice but I have 150k+ miles on trans and rearend. I just got laid off so i cnt spend as much as I would like. And I dnt wanna build up the motor so much that the trans goes or blow the rearend.
Junkyard engine, install it yourself.
I would buy a used engine before Golen or Jasper. If you buy a junkyard b-body engine chances are decent it did not see a lot of high rpm abuse and they are cheaper.
I would buy a used engine before Golen or Jasper. If you buy a junkyard b-body engine chances are decent it did not see a lot of high rpm abuse and they are cheaper.