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Originally Posted by ZeGermanHam
This is a situation that MANY people find themselves in. Build a gnarly engine with all sorts of fancy high-performance parts and put it into a street car, only to realize that they'd enjoy the car more if the engine was less extreme. When you're in the planning stages of a project, it's hard to not be lured into the more, more, more trap.
Good on ya for admitting to yourself that you weren't completely happy with the engine configuration. I bet you'll be a lot happier with a more toned down mill.
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This is the eternal struggle for many. For a daily driver type vehicle 500 Hp is more than enough in my opinion. For a weekend beast the sky is the limit.
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1967 Firechicken, 499", Edl heads, 262/
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[email protected] mph with a 1.45 60'. Still WAY under the rollbar rule.