if yall were going to buy a crate motor (has to fit in my 65 stang without surgery) where would you buy from? after seein that 408 on the dyno, im thinkin i need one too.

 

I had mine built by an old guy thats built race cars his whole life... I paid a little over $3000 for it from intake to pan.

 

wow that sounds like a great deal, i wish i knew an old dude who built motors...[8D]

 

He has a shop here in my town and does regular auto maintinance but also builds motors for people all over the country. He has a ProMod car he's about to build an alchol supercharged hemi for...

 

Unless you want to do MAJOR work on the rear of the car wo allow much wider tires a 406 stroker is overkill. The Speed-O-Motive 347 stroker is what I think is the best compromize for a street car with tires that fit the rear wells. You can get 400 hp without having to rev past 6000.

Now, if you want to build that kind of hp with a 302 use the 5.4 in rod with the Ford hp 302 block, steel crank, GT-40 big valve head, roller rockers, 700 cfm Double-pumper, the right manifold, Hooker Super-Comp headers and you won't need to spend the extra money for other drive-line parts to hold the 400 lbft of torque the 347 or 406 will build. Plus you will save the weight of those parts. And let's face it...having your red-line at 8000 IS kind of fun.

 

i bring my 302 to 7k, but i think 8 would scare me[8D]

 

how can you rev that high?

 

I work for this engine builder We build custom built crate motor I still can't believe how low the prices are. O and by the way he built NASCAR engines for over 30years before the teams took it all in house. We can build to suit pretty much what every you want to do with the car. The prices and horse power listed on the website are for the base engines with out upgrades. here is the linkhttp://tandlengines.com/

 

Hey Emp, the one I sent you photo's of was built to turn stand 9, but I have the rev limiter set at 8.I think balanceand good internals is the key, stud girdles and 4 bolt mains helps also, R-302 block.

 

holy crap mustang lover, yalls prices are low!!! thanks guys. we'll keep in touch mustang