Building a smallblock

i built a shitty, beaten, totally stock 7.5:1 compression carburated chevy 350 small block, entirely out of used parts, in a used block, with used bearings, pistons, and mostly used rings (i replaced a few i broke cleaning up the pistons) with a stock, hyrdraulic cam and some shitty like 450cfm carb, with a factory dual-plane intake manifold and straight pipes for school and made more than 250WHP. wheel horse. on a real dyno. in real life. not on the internet. 250 AT THE WHEELS.

i remember a performance magazine awhile back pulled a 305 chevy out of a junkyard, cleaned it up, re-gasketed it, threw in a off-the-shelf cam and a big intake manifold and made 410BHP on an engine dyno for under $950


and some faggot with a purple skiboot avatar is saying you cant make more than 320hp without "MAJOR MODS" whatever the fuck those are. go home paul walker.


to the OP have fun. take your time. do a smoky burnout. i wouldnt suggest buying into expensive rotating assemblies or purchasing a set of forged pistons unless you are really planning to go for huge power in the future.

That's awesome man, makin do with what ya got. And thanks, im really jacked to have something i can say i built that will dust all the stupid rice burners in my town. I don't think forged pistons will be necessary, I wanna get around 400-450 and leave it. but more than one smoky burnout will be done, that is for certain.