Living in San Diego and being close to work, I will be using my car as a daily driver when its done. I have no suicidal illusions of doing 170MPH. I want big block, big brakes and to go from 0-100-0 in 12 seconds. Weather here permits driving a roadster about 11 months of the year and I plan to take advantage of it. I will probably average almost 20K miles per year.
I am an admitted big block aholic and feel they rule the street but enjoy small block cars as well. A nice FIA 289 or GT40 with a screamin 347 stroker would blow my skirt up but are secondary choices.
As stated above the different motors all have thier plusses and minus's and can provide big HP numbers reliably if built correctly. I think right now the 385 series of crate motors offer the biggest bang for the buck. Because I decided to buy a Kirkham I will go with an FE because I feel that is the appropriate motor for such an accurate replica but if I had selected a different mfr I probably would have gone with the 460 to maximize the bang for the buck.
Just for fun I still want to beat the snot out of a Ferrari just once.
