Subject: Re: Budget build, what are you giving up? by jsup on 2008/11/27 18:33:42
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cuisinartvette wrote: $4900 in the longblock, but thats with every sinlgle little thing except headers and injectors.
To use "good stuff" cost easily could have doubled.
Torque/low rpm motors are cheaper to build.
Rpm/bigger CI motors add up.
$10k easy in the 408 I recently finished and that was with me doing a lot of "favors" labor wise. By the time its installed and running it will be 1000s more.
12k in my 350.
IMo the higher they spin the more they cost.
OK, next question. On your last point, the higher they spin, most of us, me included, have a HR cam/lifters. These are only good to what? 7000 on a good day, and not all the time. Probably more like 6300-6500 IMO.
Would it be fair to say the entry level guy getting into the hobby with an HR motor can do it on the cheap and have a fairly powerful HR motor with second tier parts and be competitive enough to remain interested?
You say the cost would have doubled, but how much performance would have been gained?
