88ttop5.0

5.0 magazine just did an article with a old school build up and they got to about 500 hp with all the mods including a supercharger and they said the block was on borrowed time...oh and it was a stock block...

Rixter

Stock block info from turbo mustangs forums. Max possible? Apparently a 600hp glory run

Ok, apparently several 600hp glory runs.
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FullAuto

137mph @ 3000lbs race weight = ~602rwhp
602rwhp through a C4 (~18% loss) = ~735hp

Borrowed time? Probably. But it's been 134+mph at least 20 passes and it's coming back out this spring.

w8less

damn fullauto any secrets you want share on keeping it together?

FullAuto

It went through 1 stock shortblock in the 10.60 range with stock electronics. The ONLY way this thing stays together is the car is now equipped with a FAST sequential system tuned by Chris "Mud Duck" Derrick (a former SSO racer from the late '90s-early '00s). This thing would NEVER last with stock electronics.

greenstreak9205

i'd say thats rather impressive

88ttop5.0

agreed

AlabamaCobra

the money it takes to max out a 5.0 block is alot more than what you paid for the vehicle, i promise.

southdakota5.0

yeah i wish i could have had my engine built for what i paid for the car.

turbostang21

im sorry but is that supposed to be alot? i know people who make 20 passes in a month easily...daily drivers too. i know a guy who's been making 550whp (on a mustang dyno known as the heartbreaker for it's low #'s compared to the local dynojet...so a bunch more) and runs mid 10's for 2 years now on a completely stock bottom. he's been trying to break it but it won't. that's fine i don't understand people who bother to forge a stock block. another buddy cracked a block with 380whp... i'm saying you're certainly the exception from the rule (as you know)...even though there has been many 9-10 sec passes made on stock blocks. there's been many more that crack way before that