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Rant
I moderate a couple of webside boards one of which is devoted to Ford 385
series engines. On a regular basis there are posts which follow the same
basic outline:
"Hey I've got a clapped out 429/460 that I want to get <insert obscene
amount of horsepower> out of that will be mostly a weekend play toy but I
want to drive it on the street. It needs to run on pump gas. How do I do
it?"
These posts are inevitably followed by several morons who claim to have big
block vehicles with ridiculous amounts of RWHP that they drive on the street
regularly.
These boobs clearly have no clue what kind of power they actually have or
what it takes to build an engine that will live long enough to get out of
the driveway while pumping out insane horsepower.
The most recent request was some poor deluded soul who wanted 600 RWHP out
of a stock block 460 with D3VE heads while keeping his build price to a
minimum and driving it on the street. While I applaud his desire for extreme
power as well as his choice of powerplant I had to dial my BBA way back in
order to keep from flaming his sorry ass.
Does this guy really think he can build an engine that will be somewhere in
the 700 HP range on a miniscule budget? C'mon, how many people are out there
that can squeeze that kind of horsepower out of those heads and build a
bottom end that will live long enough to even break in the cam? Oh yeah and
do it on a budget that would make Ebeneezer Scrooge seem generous.
Has he ever driven a vehicle with that kind of power on the street? Not many
people have and lived long enough to tell.
Lord these fools do try my patience!
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TS#10
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