Money that is, and i'm talking in a small block. All parts and lobor. without a power adder too.

[This message has been edited by LottaBallsCamaro (edited October 14, 2001).]

 

Prices for labor vary from place to place, so a best estimate would be received from a garage.

You might also want to ask what it would cost for a new tranny & rear end too.

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89 iroc-z 305 tbi
k&n filtercharger, open element air filter. nuffin' else

 

LBC,

400 BHP is very easy with 350 inches and decent compression and flow. RWHP is a different story, and you'll have an engine that might not be a good year 'round daily driver. You'd have to push 450+ HP on 350 cubes (which isn't that difficult) to make 400 at the wheels. That engine would not be friendly to low octane camel-urine fuels, nor would it be a good short trip grocery-getter.

If I wanted 400+ in a daily driver, I'd be thinking a 502 with EFI. That Ramjet 502 would be a nice package but a tight squeeze. I could use 510 ft/lb at times, with the 500+ HP that goes with it - all on pump gas. The $8,000.00 price tag is a bit steep, though.

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In one of the last two or three Chevy Hi Performance mags they did a beautiful 400+hp 350 buildup. It wasn't really expensive, either, as these things go.

It was the issue with the orange 87 Camaro on the cover.

 

Sure, if you don't count the extensivly ported L98 aluminum heads they used. The magazine article is not a real world buildup. There's lots of things they didn't mention on how they got so much HP.

 

I'm not putting one in my car yet,I just sit in class at school and wonder these things then come up here and let yall talk about them.

 

You also have to take flywheel hp ratings with a grain of salt. Multiply their numbers by 80% and that's what you see at the rear wheels. 320 hp still wouldn't be bad, except for the fact that a lot of times they don't run accessories, they have an infinite supply of room temperature coolant, and they are breathig in room temperature air, and they often don't run though exhaust.

 

Stephen,

No, you are looking at the wrong article in Chevy Hi Performance.

The one I'm talking about is in the October issue and used cast iron Vortec heads, a 350 roller cam block, the GM "Hot" cam and a 4bbl carb.

They claim they paid $2400 US to do it.

 

I'm pulling around 360 (give or take) outta my 350 and thats with my old stock 305 heads on it and I'm under 3 G's so far.

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1982 black Z-28:
-350 ci w/edelbrock 600cfm
-T5 Tranny
-4.11 rear end
-Blue Racer performance cam
-Dynomax headers

 

How can you make that estimate? Out of a pair of stock 305 cylinder heads? Do you have any dyno numbers or dragstrip MPH's to back up your claim? I've got about 300 with a new 350 and Dart 180's. Don't go throwing around big numbers if you can't back it up.

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355 c.i.
Dart 180 Heads
Lunati 224/224 cam
Harland Sharp 1.5 rockers
Performer RPM Manifold
Holley 600 cfm double pumper
Hooker Super Competition Headers
Flowmaster Exhaust
Competition Engineering Sub-frame connectors
Super T-10
GM posi 3.42 rear
Hurst Roll Control
13.9@102

 

Either Dart 180 heads suck, you cannot drive, or Mars was in the third house of Saturn because 300HP and 13.9s are not that impressive for your combo...



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1984 z28 w/ a 357 cu in. monster engine which is looking like the posterchild for Edelbrock with the exception of the Holley 750vac... all the suspension stuff... 9-bolt posi disk is in...

-=ICON Motorsports=-

 

Well, I'd think at least a couple of thousand, depending on how much labor work you do yourself, and how much you pay your helpers (like your tool-girl ) I'd definitely take that 305 out and at least pop in a 350, if your girlfriend won't mind.

 

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