Max horsepower with EQ heads?

ou812 said

Something seems wrong here...I made 560HP with my W2's over 13 years ago with a 360, 12.25:1, solid FT cam, victor 340, TTI 1 7/8 headers...by chance are you running a small header tube? Just curious, as you should be at 600HP unless your using a 700cfm carb.

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Well this deal was built for the '94 racing season and had a Purple shaft cam.. there are lots better out there today. Mike Jones is grinding mine ...the specs on his cams seem pretty mild but the secret is in the ramps and the timing not the 'big' numbers. My kid's B-mod sure opened some eyes during his first time on the track with one of Mike's cams.

Not sure what headers were on the engine when it was on the dyno... likely were owned by the shop and used on many different motors. it's likely under chassis deals... we run a different set-up than on a street car. I have a couple different sets... one Schoenfeld and another unknown brand.

I think I can bump the HP up over 600 with the new cam and I'd like to try an 850 carb (I have an ancient BG allky carb now). And you know a dyno never won a race so I use those numbers as a benchmark to tune from there forward.

My heads only flow around 280 on the intake... there's more to gained there.

I bought this motor used, and blown up, so it will be freshened in my shop then back to the original builder for a couple dyno runs... he still has the same dyno so I we can get accurate numbers ( he sez he may have the original dyno sheets in his records... he had the original build sheets)