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And you shouldn't, probably best to find a builder that builds a 600 hp sbm all day long also.
But a good chunk of people don't, They see TF ad or in a catalogue, online see the price ain't too bad and TF says they can make 500 + hp, out comes credit card and sold. You don't think the same person would buy a step up over TF for a reasonable price also if they had a choice?
How many of the question here are people needing help cause they didn't plan it out too well, or their planning it here but don't want to listen to a more modest build.
I agree, most on here, or elsewhere are more than happy building a 500 horse catalog build that they can throw a decent set of tires on, modest cam and convertor, make a once in a blue moon outing at the track, lay down 11’s feel mighty( as they should be) impressed and be done. And that’s cool and is the vast majority of guys.
Those that don’t fall into that category are farther and fewer between, and those are the guys who look outside the box if they want to run a lot faster.
In my case, having run 10.70’s with a flat tappet Eddie stroker 25 years ago, the only reason I started with eddies on my current car is because it already had them on the car, along with a 10 to 1 360. It ran 12.20’s.
I installed a stroker, copied pretty much what I had done 25 years ago… and, back to 10.70’s again. I should have been happy and left well enough alone, but I didn’t.
So with me, I knew how much further I could go stepping things up further, but didn’t feel like throwing money at a limited outcome.
Then along came the Bloomers to the market. From what I knew about Vic, I knew I wouldn’t have to change virtually anything to pick up a lot of steam. So I sold the eddies and bought these. Kept my same cam, same maintenance free setup, and gained a ton.
Now, if I want to step up and run 9’s( I don’t) I have good enough heads to do so.
I had already seen other guys buy trick flows, and where that would get me, in fact was the second guy in line to get them when they came out, listened to all the marketing talk, but I ended up giving my spot in line to a member here who bought them.
Glad I waited, wouldnt have been happy