360 block limits

frosty_the_punk said
Yet that becomes a bit irrelevant, because If a tuner knows enough about tuning EFI to make a 2.0L four cylinder engine live at 500hp, He's probably going to do just fine with a 6.0L V8 engine at 1000hp.

This is where we disagree, it's painting with a broad brush. The guys I mentioned are a good ten to fifteen years younger than me and were running imports before they could afford the "old school" muscle but made the switch as soon as they could. They have done it all the different ways including starting out with cheap ebay turbos. these guys know first hand what it takes to do both and will tell you although the basics remain the same what the engines want is different.

So imagine you with your skill set right now being asked to tune a big inch, 1,200 hp v8 with a procharger and efi at the track tonight for a competitive race -not a test and tune. Are you certain that the experience you have with tuning 2.0s is going to transition over seamlessly to the v8 and allow that car to be competitive after a couple trial runs?. I am splitting hairs but that's what it takes to keep big power alive and performing at the top of their game, it's a very small tune up window. defenitely not talking about a daily here.