Thread: What engine would you guys build?

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No matter what you build pay attention to the rpm's,cam profile.
I alway's try and run the biggest engine you can and then limit the rpm's.
The most consistant engine wins every time.
In other words I would not try and build a 10,000 rpm sbc instead I would look at a 540/565 BBC with a std. 24.5 degree head on it.
Buy shaft mount roller rockers and keep the rpm's at 7,000 and don't run a .800 lift cam but instead run a cam that is mild say .675/.700 lift.

Eric,
Well there is always that. We ran big blocks for years in our S/C RED. I guess we could again.
We went back to a small block in the S/G car because it seems everybody was running BB. We have a friend with a 502 in a LUV who keeps pestering us to go BB. Kind of funny that we ran him all out, no throttle stops, for fun one Sunday and he only beat us by .017. 502 to a 377. SB's can run with the BB. Although, I must admit he was MPHing us big time on the big end.
Yeah, I know we had to push the little block much harder to run the same as a BB. Thats why were are in pieces and he is still out there cruisin the 1/4.
We really ought to go back to a BB. Maybe we will, I don't know. I know you and Pat are Mega inch afficianados and you are very successful at it. Maybe the reason you run such big motors is to be different from the rest of the herd. I know that is why Gasser runs small blocks because he wants to be different. Maybe that is why we run them also. But maybe we should buck the trend and build something really different, like a turbo'd 500 caddy.
One thing tht I will say about the big block cars in all of the super classes is the fact that most of them run so fast they have to literally throttle stop them to idle at 100'. Nothing aggravates me more than to see two 572" diggers capable of low 7's, running 8.90s at 185mph and yet they look like the puked their guts just off the line.
So, just what do you run a 632 in anyway?