Max Horsepower
Race Director
Joined: Feb 2004
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I have a stock 2 bolt with only arp studs. Hyperutectic pistons,stock rods with arp bolts, and a cast crank. Makes 450 hp at wheels with spray. Haven't broken anything............yet! I agree that it will handle quite a bit.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Dec 2002
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From: Lakeland fl
typically the first thing to let go is the rods. Quite often they fail secondary to a bolt failure- did you put in good rod bolts? Did you at least use new rod bolts? This would probably be the HP limiting factor of your engine, and there is no real magic HP number that this stuff will break, just that it will fail sooner than the good stuff.
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Nov 2003
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From: Cape Cod Ma
Not enough, if you beet your vette like I do. I did a killer top end on it last year. Because the stock engine was rebuilt when i bought the car. So i figured I'll leave the bottom end alone because there are people that go 11's on a stock sort block. Well I paid for it last week.
Now re-rebuilding with forged internals to handle the rev's.
I agree that there strong enough....just keep the rpm's down, no 5,500-6,500 shifts with a mini-ram
Now re-rebuilding with forged internals to handle the rev's.
I agree that there strong enough....just keep the rpm's down, no 5,500-6,500 shifts with a mini-ram
