Power limits of stock 360 block and crank.

moper said

Honestly, given your head choices... Unless you plan to go with high quality full race porting and a race-type solid roller, and build it as a full race engine, and you can stay out of any detonation issues - you're not going to reach near the breaking point of the block with a good set of caps. You don't make 1.6 or 1.7hp per inch out of a stock stroke with a "Stage II"-type head and a roller cam with .550 lift.

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Good point as usual moper. I definately don't want race heads or a stroker crank. I'm thinking with the compression I'm talking it would be able to run on pump gas. Just a common sense engine that uses the stock block and crank to their fullest potential with out going crazy on anything. If the heads I'm talking about do not reach the limits, so be it. Also going to run a manual trans behind it, either an A-833 with a Gear Vendors overdrive or possibly a Passon A-855 5 speed overdrive. I'm figuring a combo like this should run low to mid 11s and be super fun to drive.