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Old 03-21-2010, 11:17 AM
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My view is that you should go for as much as you can without making the engine too fussy. After you drive the car for a couple years, you'll wish you had more, because you get used to the car.

For a big block or FE, you can get 600-625hp pretty easily and not have to run race gas, deal with radical camshafts, etc.

Of course the bigger the cubes, the more streetable power you can make. A 500hp 347 would be a little racy, where as a 500hp 489 FE would be a *****cat.
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