Lunati Hydraulic FT Cam users..........
Oh yeh....... if anyone noticed......
In the hyd vs solid article.......
While the peak to peak difference was 30hp.......
At 5900rpm....... the difference was over 80hp.
Now....... i’d think that a SB with aluminum heads ought to be able to make use of an additional big chunk of HP at 5900........ but...... maybe not.
In a
440 at 5900. And here we are talking about a small block that may shift at 5600. So, again, how is that relevant? Oh, and the cam he's using will not take full advantage of those aluminum heads anyway. His peak power will likely be below 5,900 with that set up.
And it's a single article. One. One engine, only two different cams with their respective lifters. How many Hot Rod articles are total BS? More than a few. But this one is the holy grail for some reason. Even though it's comparing a 440 with more compression and larger cams than what 318willrun has.
And if you want to treat that single article as the end all be all, it still shows that below 5600 it's not going to make a lick of difference. Which means in
this application, it's probably not going to matter one bit, or very little at best.
This is why I stopped listening to "drag race guys". Everything they do is based around the peak HP. Which makes most of their advice pretty much useless for a street car, because it's at an RPM you never see on the street. Meanwhile, your car is a pain in the *** to drive at everything other than peak, because you sold out reliability and driveability for that peak number that you might see once or twice a year.
