[Ant]

Craig:

I know a chap who races an XD Falcon here with 351W, Alloy heads, good rods, standard crank/Block, he reckons rods are a weakness, but the blocks are good, states about 420-430bhp, his car goes real good.

I want to aim for a bit over 500bhp then I know its going to do the job!

My FE390 was around the 400bhp mark, not earth shattering, and to heavy, plus I cant afford an alloy 427 which I would dearly love.
I raced a Ford Cortina Mk3 sports sedan, called OSCA here, it ran an ex F5000 302 Chevrolet Peter Malloy engine, with a good 500bhp, this baby ran 5000-9000rpm with a vengence, but that was years ago.

The burning issue is can I get over 500bhp with a 5.7 Litre or do I need to "STROKE IT" to make it easier to obtain this result while only running a max of 10:1 compression?

Ant