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Originally posted by aumoore
My 302 is a stock explorer long block with stock GT-40pheads, trick flow stage one hyd roller cam, edelbrock performer rpm intake, Holley 600 vac secondary and the Hunter 4 into 1 headers. On a chassis dyno it put out 267hp and 285 ftlbs to the rear wheels. If you use a conservative driveline loss of 15% that is 315 flywheel hp and 335 ftlb's at the flywheel. There were several aluminum head motors at that dyno day and There was a 289 that put out just under 280 hp to the rear wheels. The Stroker motors were running from 300 to 313 rear wheel hp.
A 540hp 302 with no power adders would sound like a late model dirt track motor or a drag motor. It would make a terrible street motor. Now a 460 could make 540 and be pretty docile but even then you would know it is not stock.
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aumoore,
The point is, is it takes quite a bit of tweeking to get serious power from a 302 with one four barrel. You are correct in that my motor would not make the ideal street motor but then it wasn't designed for that purpose. My motor was designed and built for road race events. And believe it or not, it is pretty conservative. You would be surprised how docile this motor actually is. A Late Model motor is a whole other animal entirely.