Great thread Migs.

What did I buy?
Any rebuilt engine will be around $3000 and above, depending on spec.?
If it hasn’t been dyno’ed then who will ever know it’s quality?

Seat of the pants is all well and good, if you know what a 10 second run feels like!
Sometimes a high ten can feel comfortable, other times a low ten feels really scary and loose...

Then folks say “it spins the tyres in every gear”, SO WHAT, on street tyres and slick asphalt...

But a ‘hooked up’ car on the street with 500 horses will scare the hell outta most folks... drive

I have built many engines for folks from ‘mild to wild’ and no one is ever happy lol.
“I expected more” for my 500 bucks rebuild (of this 78 smog motor)...
Or “[censored] me, I nearly killed myself the first time I floored it”...doh... drinking drive fan

Horses for Courses, methinks... dino

Ps, don’t think a stock flexplate really says 600 horses...
Probably 450 ish...

Last edited by Gtxxjon; 07/30/21 08:52 AM.
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero, thanx Horace!

There’s no point trying to fix stuff that ain’t broke,,, 'but if ain’t broke',,, you is not trying hard enough...