true, max power vs longevity. it's a trade off.

as it always is.

wanna make 8,000 hp? well, consider yourself lucky if it stays together for 1/2 mile.

want to run 200K miles on one rebuild? then you're not going to run a massive cam with aggressive ramps that require insane spring pressures

on the engine dyno, we made max power by doing 4 back to back pulls to get the oil temp up as high as we could. it was at 185 degrees.

then we dumped the hot water out, and cycled in cold water until the water was coming out at 110 degrees.

then made another pull, and picked up 15 hp over the other pulls we had been making.


but...when are you ever going to be able to duplicate that on the street?