In fairness, 1000hp used to be a big number. These days telling someone you made 1000 gets the what's wrong with it question.

Nitrous, blowers, turbos, have for sure become the norm. Every project i see now has a power adder and not just a small plate. More often than not it's 3 foggers, or forced induction, myself included.

The old KB stuff would move around too on the first build, but would take a set, and stay there. I can't say what the limit is on the old stuff but i know they stay pretty round at 2000hp. The old KB design (wet sleeve ones) were in TF at one point in history. Not really the same as the dry sleeve blocks, but close.

I'm hopeful for the new KB stuff. Any improvement in the orig design will be a home run.

I'm going billet, or solid from here on out personally.

Back on topic though, if you can wait for a kb, do so. Ultimately the indy will bite you if you're a power adder guy.