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06-25-2009, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by yourmyboybh1026

For the money you are going to spend, you may as well sell yours, get a GT500 and go from there. That way you will already have an engine that will hold the power. You are going to have to change a lot on that car, not just engine parts, to make it handle that kind of power.

+1, GT500. With nothing but a smaller pulley and custom tune it's going to net you a solid 575-600 RWHP. And you can buy them for around what you spent on your 08 plus all the part and labor to get you to your desired RWHP. And with the GT500 you'd be able to say "yeah, it's a shelby!

06-25-2009, 08:47 AM

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Stkjock

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Location: Long Island, NY

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Originally Posted by silverpony41

I have a question about the forged shortblock. Should i use my stock block and put forged internals, or do i buy a block already setup with the forged internals?
What would be the difference, besides price obviously?

Price will not be that much different believe it or not. the OEM block would need to be honed and checked then built. If you were to go to a BBR block they are fairly cheap as you send them your block for a core.

The GT500 route is a decent idea. you can find a used low miles one for under $40K now and do a pulley swap, CAI and tune and get 500-550 whp

do a blower swap and injector swap and get 625-650 whp on the stock motor