Just to give you an idea of what you can do with just the 454 stuff--The Chev Monza pictured in my avator had a 454 tall deck truck block and a stock 454 forged crank, 454 pistons on +.400 long rods , .030 over, c exhaustport stock alum heads, dual quads and ran 8.00 and 169mph--


so if you have a good crank, block, etc, you do not need to spend huge dollars on stroker crank stuff to get lots of horse power------but a good set of aluminum heads and water pump plus mini starter will take a ton of weight off the front of your car.


And yes, my block was align honed, bored/honed with torque plates , decked square/parallel to crank bore-had roller cam, msd -7 ignition and dual holley dominators---------sold short block to another racer and moved heads to bow tie block at stock oem forged crank,4.560 bore and ran 7 second quarter mile at high 170s---------sold heads / top end to comp racer and he's still running them today on a stock stroke 4.350 bore block--------hundreds of runs and change bearings every 2 or 3 years-----