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Old 09-25-2006, 05:21 PM
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what would make more power/ be faster ..... and h/c/i or vortec V-1 SC at 6 psi?
for the H/C/I i was thinkin afr 165's, trickflow street heat, and tfs1 cam..... both of these ideas will cost about the same
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Old 09-25-2006, 05:25 PM
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do it right a build the motor first
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Old 09-25-2006, 05:26 PM
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yea i guess ur right
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Old 09-25-2006, 05:26 PM
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I like the head, cam, intake myself. I'm a N/A though. I used to have that same combo on my 331, it ran great.
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Old 09-25-2006, 05:32 PM
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h/c/i should make more horsepower, but I'd rather buy the V-1.
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Old 09-25-2006, 05:46 PM
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motor first add the blower later...
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Old 09-25-2006, 05:47 PM
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motor first add the blower later...
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Old 09-25-2006, 05:58 PM
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If your using the stock block, dont worry about 'building' the motor, just freshen the bottom end up with new bearings, etc. You probably wont even have to bore it, most of the 5.0's ive been working on lately, none of them needed boring over. A bottle brush hone job does the trick and even thats just to let the rings seal.

But just freshen the stock bottom end, the rods/crank/pistons are stronger than the block, so thats why you shouldnt worry about building it. If your supercharging it, i'd recomend studding the heads and buy some decent head gaskets, even with 6psi, its just good practice, later you may want to move up to 8+psi to make some real power so thats one less thing right there. Then get some decent heads and a cam, if you plan on running bigger valves and/or a larger cam, go ahead and buy some more pistons with bigger reliefs, you can fly cut the stock ones but it weakens them and your still limited to the size of cam/valves you can run.

Thats my 2 cents.
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Old 09-25-2006, 06:10 PM
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i dont plan on building the motor any time soon
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Old 09-25-2006, 11:12 PM
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im bettin i can easily get low 13's with afr 165's.... trickflow street heat intake... tfs1 cam..... bbk 255lph fuel pump... and 3.73 gears in a 5 speed hatch
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