Originally posted by Blackroc
I have a basically stock recently rebuilt 454 with the crappy 236 peanut port heads I was looking at the Edelbrock 60499 heads which should bring the compression up to 9.2 according to them. Then a Edelbrock rpm cam or similar and a single plane o port intake.

Cam specs are 560 intake, 573 exhaust, 112 lsa.

Do you think this is worth doing till I can afford to do the bottom end up with a forged rotating assembly?

Desktop Dyno is giving me 501hp and 479tq at 5500rpm. Would the stock bottom end be able to take this?
I dont think you would see that hp number. And are you going to eventually spray this motor? Because if you are ganna go ALL motor then i would pitch that 112 and go for a 110 hyd. roller.
If you do go with those Edlebrock heads i would NOT run a single plane, i would run their performer dual planes...you pick the series.
And if you wanted to make some horse the stock way, you could always try and find a set of 781 castings.....or 049 BBC heads.

I had a stock 454...781 heads, pretty much the same cam you have, but i had tired springs. Edelbrock Performer 2.0 dual plane, Demon 750. Large long tubes, out to 3" into Flows. I was running 12.60's with horrid 60' and all my power was done at 5200 rpm.
I know it isnt fast, but as a street toy there wasnt to many people that could hang with it......that block is now a 496 that is deep in the 9's.......

Just shoot for building gobs of torque....the rest will follow after that.