Decking block cost??
Somewhere between amusing and annoying really.
Just sayin' Bill
Well, it is surely not my intention to annoy ANYONE...
I guess I have this over-bearing tendency to bring everyone around to the realization that the smart money is on turbocharging when it comes to a SLANT SIX and any dollars spent on building a normally-aspirated engine are not going to pay much in the way of dividends at the dyno, compared with what you get with a forced induction motor, because of the incredibly-poor breathing cylinder head we are stuck with (even a "ported" one with big valves.)
I should refrain from voicing my opinion (because, all I seem to do is piss people off) and let them go their own way... but, it's hard.
Not everybody wants an 11-second slant six; lots of folks just want to go "kinda fast", but the original-poster in this thread did say (and this is a direct quote from his third note,) "I have that "go faster" disease though!!" Hmmmm...
I think that pronouncement by him. was what prompted me to say "after possibly finding himself unhappy with the results of a normally-aspirated engine, he may have occasion to regret milling that block."
If he really DOES have that "go faster disease," a turbo is probably the best way to scratch that itch on a slant six. You can spend a LOT of money on a normally-aspirated 225 in a 3,200-pound car and still have a car that runs in the fourteens. A 14-second car can be a lot of fun, but a 12-second car is even more fun...:cheers: Think of the V-8's you can trounce...
Just my 2-cents...
