[Tony Radford]

I hear you. I had a stock stroke Windsor in my car at purchase putting a tad over 400 HP and put around 9K miles on it in a year and a half. Last year I replaced it with a 427 Windsor stroker built by Southern Automotive here in the Atlanta area. It is built with a Forged rotating assembly from Scat and Keith Black with light-weight H-beam rods. The compression is 9.8:1, Vic. Jr. intake, BG Might Demon carb and not terribly-radical solid cam. I put an average of 7K miles a year on the car and run it pretty hard. The street manners are excellent, which is necessary with Atlanta traffic being what it is. The performance of this new motor with respects to the first one is pretty significant. I don't know how long I should expect the motor to survive, but for me, the whole purpose of the car was to push the extreme in driving excitement. I think you can use analysis to rationalize anything you want to. The real question is how many Windsor strokers fail or wear out at 427 VS 408, 418 etc. Who was it that said "you don't know how far you can go until you've gone too far"?