My past 440 had compression, flow, intake and carb, and it fell short by a lot.
You’ve been around this stuff forever....... so, where do you feel your combo needed to be improved to get into that 500hp range?
I can assure you there were no magic parts in the “default 500hp” combo.
I wasnt suggesting that magic parts were needed, but that all the right parts are needed
I guess I left a bit to the imigination with my statement. 6 pac intake, true 10.5:1 compression ratio, The heads were my old 915 that you have seen. I think they were 255 - 260 cfm flowing heads, but the cam was the MP 272° - 0.455" lift. So the cam was smaller. And of course exhaust manifolds. This was before my TTI, so compression bent pipes and 2 1/4" super turbo mufflers.
No dyno data. Car ran almost 109 at probably 4250 lbs in very good air. Assuming the good air was close to standard conditions, that's probably a
corrected net 420 hp at best, according to Moroso. Probably a 440 hp on the dyno. I do think a better cam and headers it gets close to 475.
