Interior progress before and after pics
03-15-2007, 01:01 AM
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RE: Interior progress before and after pics
everything looks great.... except that steering wheel in the second picture... kinda detracts from the rest of it.. .sticks out like a sore thumb cuz everything else looks os nice and clean
03-15-2007, 01:12 AM
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RE: Interior progress before and after pics
ORIGINAL: Fosters82GT
Just my .02 cents but, if you want 450 hp, a mildly tuned 460 bigblock would easily give this and be totally realiable. The drawbacks of course would be excess weight on the front and crappy mileage.
A 408 stroker, you could build for 450 hp and be slightly less reliable with almost 200 lbs less weight on the front end and better mileage.
347's are awesome, quick revving engine but if you wantreliability, you'd want to limit it to about 400 hp and it would be same weight as a 302.
Just my .02 cents but, if you want 450 hp, a mildly tuned 460 bigblock would easily give this and be totally realiable. The drawbacks of course would be excess weight on the front and crappy mileage.
A 408 stroker, you could build for 450 hp and be slightly less reliable with almost 200 lbs less weight on the front end and better mileage.
347's are awesome, quick revving engine but if you wantreliability, you'd want to limit it to about 400 hp and it would be same weight as a 302.
1) a 460 is just too much, IMO. You can get 600hp out of a 408 before worrying about block integrity, and with halfway decent parts 600 isn't too hard to attain. Which leads to the next...
2) Unless you built it stoned, a 450hp 408 will be extremely reliable
3) A 351/408 with aluminum heads weighs about as much as a stock 302..the weight diff is minimal beyond that.
My .02
03-15-2007, 01:33 AM
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RE: Interior progress before and after pics
ORIGINAL: LTnone
That's all right, but I have a few other thoughts on it...
1) a 460 is just too much, IMO. You can get 600hp out of a 408 before worrying about block integrity, and with halfway decent parts 600 isn't too hard to attain. Which leads to the next...
2) Unless you built it stoned, a 450hp 408 will be extremely reliable
3) A 351/408 with aluminum heads weighs about as much as a stock 302..the weight diff is minimal beyond that.
My .02
ORIGINAL: Fosters82GT
Just my .02 cents but, if you want 450 hp, a mildly tuned 460 bigblock would easily give this and be totally realiable. The drawbacks of course would be excess weight on the front and crappy mileage.
A 408 stroker, you could build for 450 hp and be slightly less reliable with almost 200 lbs less weight on the front end and better mileage.
347's are awesome, quick revving engine but if you wantreliability, you'd want to limit it to about 400 hp and it would be same weight as a 302.
Just my .02 cents but, if you want 450 hp, a mildly tuned 460 bigblock would easily give this and be totally realiable. The drawbacks of course would be excess weight on the front and crappy mileage.
A 408 stroker, you could build for 450 hp and be slightly less reliable with almost 200 lbs less weight on the front end and better mileage.
347's are awesome, quick revving engine but if you wantreliability, you'd want to limit it to about 400 hp and it would be same weight as a 302.
1) a 460 is just too much, IMO. You can get 600hp out of a 408 before worrying about block integrity, and with halfway decent parts 600 isn't too hard to attain. Which leads to the next...
2) Unless you built it stoned, a 450hp 408 will be extremely reliable
3) A 351/408 with aluminum heads weighs about as much as a stock 302..the weight diff is minimal beyond that.
My .02