Quote Originally Posted by tango
Sounds Like a plan . And a few guy's will make some money building it ! But for Hot Rodders on a set Budget . it's not a good combo . If you have that kind of money to spend . May as well go out and buy a Dyno-ed crate Engine . But for me that take all the fun out of Hot Rodding a car . Back in the day we home built engines and they worked . And to day with more speed parts at hand . We can build even better engines at are homes . COOL
Well, guess I didn't see anything about budget constraints..... Not all of us are satisfied with the performance level obtained from home porting some factory heads and bolting something together with stock rods, cheap pistons, and an out of the box Holley..... If that's what you want, that's fine... For me it's a case of been there, done that.... Once you buy the good stuff, pay the guys with the 5 axis CNC machine to do the machine work and porting, then go out and run in the 8's or 9's with a solid, reliable engine and drivetrain that is capable of repeating itself round after round it's tough to go back....

As I've said before, there is sooooooo much more to going fast then just the engine. When my budget is too small I either wait longer or do something to generate more revenue, but then we've had this discussion before and it went nowhere. And why not buy a dynoed crate engine??? If it matches the performance level I want at a price I'm willing to pay I know for a fact that I can't build the same engine for any less money!!!!!!