BlessedHellride

A N/A 347 will be just as reliable as a 331. If both engines are to be built with the same level of parts, you will end up with more power with the 347. I had the same doubts and questions as you have when I started my build. I had always heard that the 347 is a bad combination and it will eat the bearings right out of the journals, split the block and blah blah blah blah. This is not so by any means. I have a good friend of mine that just ripped off some 9.70's this last weekend with his 347 combo, spraying 125 shot on it, all this done in a stock production block. Don't believe all the hype from people on the internet and hear say from machine shops that doesn't specialize in small block ford engines. If you are on a budget, a N/A 347 will get you into the 11's no problem. If it doesn't, you done something wrong. When I say I have a budget built engine, trust me, it's probably the cheapest aluminum headed 347 on this forum. I am running Pro Comp heads, which 99% of the guys on here will tell you they are junk and I got them for like $850 assembled and shipped to my door. I bought a cheap rotating assembly from The Mustang Depot off of eBay which was like $900 or so shipped to my door. I have Mahle forged flat tops and Hawks Racing forged I-beam 5.315" rods and a Hawks Racing nodular iron 3.4" crank. I have a cheap *** main girdle from eBay with main studs. I have ARP studs on the deck. 1.750" MAC Longtubes .I do have a decent off the shelf cam and intake manifold. But everything else is cheap stuff. It works fine and runs great. Runs on pump gas, full interior car. Drive into town, stop by the parts house or machine shop. Do a little bench racing. Get back in it, drive to Sonic and make the loop, let everyone point fingers at the car as I thump past, then drive it back home. When the weekend comes, I bind it down on my car hauler and go to the track and have myself a large time.

mjr46

with 7500 you need to plan wisely since you are including labor in that price...also will it be Fuel injected or carb?? cause if you go stroker, figure new injectors, fuel system upgrade, intake upgrade, TB , headers ..ect ect, and even with Jim's great prices at Ford Strokers, with labor to install the finished product from him and all supporting mods, your budget will we close to being maxed if not over a little