Quote Originally Posted by WRENCHD
if i'm not mistaken there's a post in here that i read that covers some of what you need to know about 283 cranks in the 327 block and they turn 10,000.
Not a lot of stock block 327's are going to go 10,000 RPM and live long. The valves will float (if you're lucky) at about 7,000 and not allow the engine to rev anywhere near that high. It would seem a lot of the stories on these old 327's have been exaggerated by about 1,000 RPM everytime the story is told!!!! JMO, but it's probably going to take $10,000.00 to rev a sbc to 10,000 RPM and have any sort of reliability.

A more realistic consideration on a street engine is how much torque you can build at lower revs. Making big torque should be the consideraton on a street engine. The high winding engines work great on a road course with a 5 or 6 speed transmission in a light (under 3,000 lbs) car.....