Originally posted by shawnlee28
$3,000 small block 350,$3,000 blower =6,000 alot of tunning and high maintenece.
$4,500 460 ford low maintenece and 1,500 bucks for other things ,I know ,I know the blower looks sooo impressive.
I would like to go with a gigantoid turbo, but the project is mainly my fathers dreams, minus the 64' Chevelle part. He always wanted a blown car, and loved the performance of his friends blown cars, and we have the chance, so a blown car it will be I'm not sure why we don't go with a Ford, my father has nothing against teh company (as you can see :P) but we just decided on a chebbie motor.

Pat Ganahl is a long-time hot rodder and journalist. I've read this offering by him and recommend it....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/18...5Fencoding=UTF8
The BDS site has tons of useful info also. Click on tech info at the top of the page....
http://www.blowerdriveservice.com/

But you know, honestly, if I were in your position, I'd be thinking big block Chevy. It just doesn't get much better when you want to go really fast and stay together.
That will go on my list of books. I'll re-read the BDS tech pages.

BB sounds nice, but will it be as cheap to get built as the SB would? I know we would start off with more power, and be able to run the blower on a more reasonable scale, but what about general parts for the BB, how would that come out financial wise?