samltheriault

ok so iv put all my plans on hold for a bit. deciding to fully build my bottom end first but to start idk what block to get. i like dart a lot and herd some great things about them. but I'm looking for something to handle around 5-600 rwhp thats my new goal. seeing as I'm getting all eagle forged internals and running a big blower. i don't see how its completely impossible. does any one know if the dart shp small block ford block can handle that.

uedlose

yes they can

tinman

They can but have you considered the BOSS 302 block from Ford?
BTW, stay away from the MAXX blocks that you can find online, they are cheap Chinese crap........

Duncan_GT

Tinman beat me to it. Stick with either Dart or FRPP

mjr46

I wouldn't use a boss block with a stroker kit if my life depended on it, read up on the short skirts they have and many documented cases of the problems arising, give Jim at fordstrokers.com a call and ask all about it, he has built numerous ones for people and can tell you all about it.

tinman

I think Ford has changed the casting in the last year or so on the BOSS blocks......

uedlose

The SHP Dart block for the price is about the best out there. they are rated to like 600 HP but I have seen lots of people talking 1500HP + on them. Dart underrated them a lot so it would not hurt sales of there sportsman blocks. I know when I got my R-Block there was a bunch of machine work to do to it compared to the Dart blocks also.
The china blocks you are talking of well I would not run one either, but you know people do and I have a friend that has one and they have had no problems with it and it is a big cid Windsor engine and runs mid 9s race car not a street car it is also N/A engine.
his Machinist said he could not find any thing wrong with it and he sells them all the time. But to each his own.

Duncan_GT

I am glad you took the advice to upgrade your block.

GTnotchback

i do not have any issues with my boss block.

samltheriault

how many horses are u running????