500hp & 600hp Bench Racing thread

Phreakish said

You simply ignore every statement that explains it.
Expansion, expansion, expansion. More air, expanded, will always equal more power. That's the one sentance. More air = more work, and HP is work.

The ONLY time that more CID doesn't make more power is when you cripple the induction somehow, and you keep picking examples with crap heads to 'disprove' the sentance above.

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He gave you his example in post 42. And that’s EXACTLY what happens in the real world. I see it all the time.

I guy says I want to make 500 HP and I want to shift at 5500 and it has to live for 250k miles and get 15 in town and 28 on the highway.

In the real world, you can do some of it, but not all of it.

My first issue would be why in the world are you shifting at 5500??? That’s INSANE. Oh wait, it’s because they want their muscle car to drive down the road like their **** box Honda at 2300 RPM.

So you end up crutching the whole thing.

If I had to do that, I’d do a 408 and live with it. If I could get the pussy to shift (and use the correct gearing and converter for it) at say 6800 I’d drop the stroke down to 3.75 inches, use the same heads and intake with the correct cam timing and the 383 inch engine would kill that 408 all day long.

Of course, we have too many Prius types that want to hang their arm out the window and have all the folks wave to them at the stop lights.

Those I call posers.