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crabman,if we had the pricepoint that chevy had ur calls would proly go up.



Yes, perhaps it is the chevy guys that are cheap.....would they pay a thousand or two more for their blocks ?? If so, is Dart and others dummies for pricing their parts way way too low ??

This constant generalizing and bashing Mopar guys by a few that picture themselves as elitists is tiring.



It's not an elitist thing at all. If you want to make 1200 HP it won't happen (for very long) on a passenger car block. You can get a pretty good SBC for about $2000.00, so if you think about that in terms of MoPar selling half of that, would $3000.00 be out of line? $4000.00? We are not talking about typical bracket guys. The number of chevy guys to MoPar does not justify current pricing. I won't even get into availability.

Well, just a little. In 1990, I could have bought as many W-2 heads as I wanted for $99 each. 4 years before that, couldn't get them. By about 1992 the W-2's had dried up. The W-5 was on the way. They didn't produce enough of those and by 99 they had stopped production. I forget what year they started to make W-2's again. The point is...with a little work, the W-2 will easily make 700 HP on 1x4 and 775 on 2x4's. How many chevys will do that? The W-5 will do 50 to 75 more with ease. Why not produce that head in numbers to make the average guy want to buy them, and support them with rockers etc?

BTW, 700 HP in a 3000 door car should go mid 9's at 140 plus. Trim it down 400 lbs and it's a 8 second car.
The point is it could be done but the blocks are over priced and hard to get and the options aren't there. It's an end user problem.

Just because you think it won't make it true. Horsepower is KING. To dispute this is stupid. C. Alston