i think going over 600 for a street car is getting to be on the edge of too much. sit and spin!

 

Yeah thats what i was thinking .. .hmmm but it would be fun on the street course. HA or not actually i dont know just rambling

 

you get to that and its just a dyno queen. you would have to spend alot on suspension and getting it to hook up. with that much HP you can get sideways at 100mph haha. thats nuts

 

yeah, the only cars on the street that you ever see able to hook that much power up are the fully caged fox bodies . . . and no one really wants that look. . . you get an S197 to hook like that with that kinda power. . . you're really doing something

honestly, I would like to have 500 wheel that hooked, rather than 800 wheel that didn't, but thats just me

 

Im still kinda new .. just figured 600 hundred to the wheels would be enough to take on the new breeds of camaros if or when thye come out ...

 

dood. . . 400 wheel will hand the new stock camaro's they're *** . . . that's of course if they don't put the LS7 in it. . .

 

well the LS7 is in the corvette which is heavy so i think 400rwhp (450 for sure)might be able to keep up with a Z06. 505HP and 460ish??? getting to the wheels. that would be an interesting race. whoops, guess we are gettin off topic

 

I dont know what im saying i guess ... just worried about those rich kids that get everything they want and would walk all over a s197 that was modifed ... just wondering if those internals would allow for some adjustment with boost or what not to where if at the track you get stumped ... just boost it a bit and possibly take it i dont know lol <---- ramble again

 

Wow I had to scroll to the top to remind myself what the thread was about!

 

It's the fact that the S197 GTs C/R is so high that makes for things exploding around the 450ish rwhp with any sort of decent boost. A forged short block is great insurance, but it needs to built with F.I. in mind(Terminators and GT500s run a 8.5:1 C/R compared with the relatively high 9.8:1 C/R on our GTs) and lowering the C/R will allow more boost to be added safely(pretty straight forward[8D]). You might as well buy a built short block from a reputable company like Livernois and have your local shop drop it in and then add the turbo IMO. Unless your shop has the latest engine building equipment and technology(plus Modular V-8 experience), I'd let a company with the years of building Mod V-8s handle my engine build-up. Although Livernois does sell the forged component kitsfor the DIYers out there. I'd think around the $4000 mark for a short block if having a local shop do all the wrenching(including parts). You could buy an assembled short block for that price..................