I believe there was a member on here making north of 1000 HP with a turbo on a stock block with a knock sensor.
It's hard to find people that push stock blocks or maybe it's just hard to find people that are willing to talk about it? There have been a few on here like MoparBilly.
There are, however, lots of people with little to no experience (more so on Facebook than here) that are more than willing to regurgitate a number they've heard on what one will hold. I've heard 600, 700, 750, etc.
That would be me. People taking it farther than I have like that orange procharged challenger with a 383, or the totally home built avenger with a turbo.
I preached the importance of ignition timing and benefits of distributorless programmable ignition for years on this board to be ridiculed and doubted by the vast majority of users on this board.
Now 15 years later, it has become acceptable here to embrace technology that has been available for years.
It was explained to me years ago by Kenny D that it’s real easy to keep an engine alive if you time it to keep the crank rolling forward instead of pushing it down. This is an easy rule to follow with a turbocharged engine. There is no need to maximize timing to make power. All you need to do is turn up the boost.
The weak link in my situation (400block/ 3.90 stroke 7000-7200 rpm shift) was the cylinder bores. They were shaped like beer kegs after years of making more power than I was told was possible. Still made good reliable power, but it ate rings every season.
