Dartin for Divorce

DentalDart said

I've already been advised by Tony and another mopar buddy to get a BP Motor... but 10k for a motor that has 465hp and 495tq seems like an awful lot of money for not much more power than I have now... I think if I added AL heads and more cam I'd be close to that now... I also don't know any other crate engine stroker motors.

As for cost the I understand it would be an expensive undertaking. Building it at least spreads the money out vs dumping 10k all at once for the BP... if I want a transmission with the BP it's 13k... thats a whole Lotta coin for only 470hp no? I figure 1k-1200 for transmission rebuild with a new tc and maybe 5-7k for a complete engine. Then when the engine gets finished and old one pulled I can take care of the body work and paint on the car.

This also gives me a project :D

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I hear ya. I'd do a crate myself if I didn't already have a decent engine. Now you mention "only 470 hp", you do realize that's big block power right :lol: and from a smaller, lighter, easier to fit and work on engine. If you're considering al heads get the whole package, cam, lifters, assembled heads. Call and talk to several vendors they should ask similar questions as the crate engine folk would so you don't end up with a bunch of miss matched parts that look great but don't work well together. So with your present setup what do you think you hp & tq are? See if there's a shop around with a chassis dyno and get some base numbers. For a little extra $ the place should be able to tweak things and test while on their dyno...you'd be surprised at what they can find in what you already have with carb and timing tweaks.