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what kind of horse power will i make

need to put up alot more than cubic inches to get a guess or two bud------like induction?--compression?-- heads?-- xtras?

how much horsepower will a 383 put out ?

As much as you pocket book will allow....

prolly 9.1 compression for noz over the winter and some 194 heads dont really kno on the induction yet

Originally posted by 91camaro
what kind of horse power will i make

The horses you get will depend alot on how many stock and hi-perf race parts you install on the engine and how much your willing to spend to get them higher horses

low end dollars can get you 250 horses and a mid range dollars around 375 and high end budget over 450

Its all about the money, if you do the work then you wont have to pay labor charges and can put more dollars into parts....

I have about $2900.00 in motor with about $350.00 in labor and I know its fast (exact horses unknown)

Your question is very very open ended without knowing what your going to do to the engine like pistons, rings, rods, rockers, springs, pushrods, heads, valves, exhaust, headers, mufflers, intake, carb, cam, distributor, spark plugs and wires etc etc etc

Thats why your getting the funny answers now from other members

Get a computer program called desk top dyno and start plugging into it info about the motor and then change some of the parts around and you will get some basic horse info

Alot of people say that the desk top dyno will get you into about 5% accurate of what the engine can do in horses....

youll probably have around 400 ft/lb of tourque and about 350 hp, but it all depends on what you do for heads and a cam. thats where you will get a lot of your power.

the stroker kit i got a price for was $1100 for all forged i am still looking for a little lower price so if anyone has a stroker kit for sale let me kno

I totally agree with Southern Gent. Power coasts money. Doesn't matter on the cubes. You can make big power with small cubes. Check out www.gpzilla.com . that's mine - I built it myself. It's faster now, I just slapped on a Speed Demon 750 instead of a Edelbrock 750, and had the distributor setup with 28 degrees of advance on it. The engine, to make 430hp, I have about $7000 in it. But that includes all my adapters and stuff. I did all my own work, except I farmed out the machine shop work to about 3 different shops, who did the work to my specs. If you don't tell a shop what you want, you get a plain-Jane machine job. You want your block bored and power honed with torque-plates? Make sure you tell them.

Secrets to power are making the engine breath as easy as possible, and compressing it as much as you can without detonation, and exhausting it with as little backpressure as possible, even scavenging effect on exhaust headers helps.

Want to free up horsepower? Go with all electric on the engine accessories, take it a step above, install a W.O.T. switch that cuts the alternator field which drops the load.

I have a Wrangler with 33"x12.5 tires and 3.55:1 gears that does zero to sixty in 4.6 seconds on a good day. My average is about 5.1 seconds with the full hardtop and steel doors on. It's Chevy 357 six inch rod motor with full roller.

A Crane Camponents roller setup will cost you about $1800. Some awesome ready to run heads will set you back from $700 to $2000 a pair. Wanna run higher compression, go with some Edelbrock aluminum heads, and use forged pistons to bump the compression up to about 10:1 with a full roller timing setup. Go with an MSD ignition box. The spark is like night and day compared to anything that is stock. MSD fires multiple times during each cycle per cylinder.

Use full floating wrist pins. dry sump can free up horsepower dampened by oil slosh on the crank. Run a vacuum pump on the block to ensure cylinder seal and help gain hp.

Every little thing helps, Every little thing costs money.

Set your budget. Dump the most money in the bottom end and heads. It is easier to bolt the goodies on later if you run out of money. Bolt-on go fast doodads need a good bottom end and heads to work with.