Considering that I can make 500hp EASILY with an SBC, this baby is going bye bye....lol! I am not quite that nostalgic. Seems to me as these are boat anchors...

I think this guy is from the dark side

Easy come easy go!
Considering that the engine was for sale last night this is not exactly a surprise.  I just hope he finds a nice scrub garage queen to put his 500 hp scrub in.

Doug T

The Highlands, Louisville, Ky.

Babor, you are not nostalgic and also not very interesting also! Sure ANYONE can make 500 HP out of an engine that has had all the engineering done for them through the aftermarket industry!!! It is just like building a cookie cutter camaro, WHO CARES!  If you have seen one, you have seen them all!

In my opinion, I have more respect for a true Craftsman that can build something with his OWN brain and talents! People Like John Mummert, Ted Eaton, Jerry Christianson, etc., etc.! They have built 500 HP Y-Blocks, by simply using their own brains and talent! NO ONE helped them, they figured it out by themselves using 50 + year technology, not auto cad designed, computer tested parts by big budget companies!
 Now this is not just scrub bashing! Friends of mine are GM fans and have built high HP 292 stove bolt six engines and 350 Olds Rocket motors. Now those I have respect for, for they are not just the BOARING old small block scrub that you can find in any grandmother's car! So go ahead and build a 500 HP sbc and I can guarantee you that NO ONE will even glance under your hood at a car show or cruise night!!!!   

 

I love the smell of burning rubber in the morning!

I'm assuming easily is synonymous with cost-effectively in this context.  If that is an incorrect assumption, then it really is pretty easy to get 500hp out of a Y-block.  I give Ted or John or Tim money and a 500hp Y arrives at my door.  Pretty easy.
Once you get to a certain power level, there just isn't anything cheap about it and the cost/hp levels out, SBC or not, if you want it to be reliable.  If the goal was a budget FED, then 500hp anything is not in the equation.




Lawrenceville, GA

Engines, oh boy, my buddy built a 348 scruby for his 58 and experienced the same higher cost as the Ys, but when it's right what can you do.

Ted, Redding, CA

Well, here is an engine I put together a few years ago.. Mostly stock parts. Good head work a cam and injectors. Usual hi  perf stuff added  same as any brand engine  pistons rods bearing valves springs etc.. 

I just wanna go fast cheap and reliable. No fancy aftermarket parts, just a set of ported Vortec heads, balance job and a big cam. If it costs 4000 to make the power with a 312 and 2000 with a scrub....I'll take the scrub. I am not on anybodies payroll! This post was pretty boring right up until I changed brands. Funny how nobody gets off their assets and posts unless it's negative. I thought this was a different forum, but obviously I was mistaking.

Have your mamma cuddle you ingrate, I think you are done here.

Ted, Redding, CA

I don't see how you come up with $4000 for the level of performance you said you desire.  For your goal, which you said is "not concerned as much with the speed of it as much as just having fun with it" and "This thing will likely see more car shows and make noise than it will see of track duty in all reality," $2500-$3000 should be more realistic.  That's pretty much a stock '57 spec engine with a bigger  cam, no fancy parts required.  A scruby will be cheaper for that same performance, no doubt about that but you will have more fun beating them with a "boat anchor."

While I don't have any numbers for my engine, it should definitely be at least as powerful as a '57 engine since that is effectively what it is.  With a best of 15.26 so far, and I'm positive I'll have it in the 14s with more tuning, and better chassis setup, in a 3675lb truck, that same engine in your proposed 1500lb dragster seems like it would be quick enough for the goals you have stated without anything fancy at all.



Lawrenceville, GA