400's are they any good?

Doosterfy said
What I was actually contemplating is this; Build a good short block with a high quality crank kit with around a four inch stroke, maybe a little shorter on that. Do some sort of reinforcing of the block, either cross bolted mains or a girdle. Go with either INDY or Edelbrock Victor heads with good parts in them. Keep the compression around 9 to 1, a solid roller cam, and a fairly large Pro Charger centrifical blowing through a carb. No intercooler but use one of the metanol injection kits from Snows or equivelent. I'm figuring a combo like this should be capable of 1000 HP. So what I'm hearing so far is "no", or I'm simply asking too much from this block.

Since it's a 400 we're talking about and 1000HP is the target then I'm sure that you'll have to go to cross bolted main caps and since the stock caps really aren't sized to do that then you'll have to go to custom made caps. The corresponding area of the inner block skirt will also have to be machined flat to except the new caps so everythings snug. Rods and pistons shouldn't be a problem as far as finding ones strong enough but the crank is another unknown. You're talking a custom crank, pro stock racing strength and you're talking big bucks. With all the money that's going to be thrown at this engine you might want to touch base with Indy engines and see what they've got to offer with short blocks.