340 Vs 360
What’s a Ritter block cost? It’s high end. If you don’t think so, please shine the light on me who has the better block that’s high end but yet not exotic. I’m all ears on this one for sure.
How about a MP R/R3 block for 600hp?
Myself and the forum would like to know what you think about what rod for what purpose?
Yup! It only goes so far. Far enough for a reasonable street car I think.
I like busting my Chevy friends chops when they say, “Inwas thinking about converting to a shaft rocker, what do you think “
Me; “Should have got a Chrysler because they came stock with that ****!”
IDK? I said high end and not exotic. To different categories to me.
A Ritter block is about 4k. And you know what? So is the equivalent SBC or Ford block. You can buy the lower grade blocks from Dart and such but to compare that block to a Ritter requires one to compare apples to apples. The day of the 2k SBC are over and 4k (or damned close to it) is what a quality SBC or Ford block costs.
The purpose of the rods is RPM. Isn’t that what we are discussing? You can buy a QUALITY connecting rod for under 500 bucks. Less than that if you shop around. I bet I can find a good 4340 H beam rod with 7/16 cap screws for 300 dollars. You can’t rebuild a set of stock rods for that, and they will STILL be 1018 steel with 3/8 bolts and nuts.
You can easily get a crank for under 1k that will take all the abuse you can give an NA engine. I beat the living **** out of stock cranks at 8500 and never broke one. And I was magnafluxing my stuff at least once a year. I also ran aluminum rods and didn’t use a rubber band damper.
Chrysler shaft rockers have a huge weak spot and there isn’t much you can do about it. And that’s the 5 3/8 mounting bolts. The Chevy guys get EIGHT 7/16 bolts to secure the rockers. That’s a big deal when you get to 9k and above. Those 5 bolts move around like a wet noodle.
What I just laid out was the truth about what it costs to use RPM. It’s no more expensive for the Chrysler guys when you compare equivalent quality of parts. You can buy cheaper Chevy blocks but even Dart will tell you their low end blocks are replacement blocks and not performance pieces.
The excuse is that it takes exotic or high end parts to make RPM worth doing just isn’t true, unless you are married to OE parts.
If that’s the case then what are we discussing? Are we talking about making horsepower or just mentally masturbating about things some of us don’t have any experience in?