i have less than 8 grand in my whole car, and the odds are pretty good that no one here could touch me in the quarter mile, especially for that price...that includes buying the car. i know that Levi's evo would give me a run if not beat me...maybe C5spoonEG...but i dont know what my car will run with the new stuff...

the bottom line is that if anyone here wanted to go fast, cheap, they should go buy a fox body mustang...or an f-body, and that way you can open any summit or jegs catalog, and like most stang/f-body owners, you could have daddy order parts and pay someone to bolt them on, and it might be fast...the import will always take more effort, but id rather be different...

 

The reason i asked the question was since it was something my grandpa said and car tech has changed since the 60's and 70's i thought it might not be a fully true statment cause there is honda engines pushing 100 hp per litre stock(B16, B18) , were your V8 doesnt even get close being to that hp per litre being a stock n/a. But i see all your points, im not going to leave cause your view points, i just dont like it when people are being @ss holes.

 

while some of the V8s may not be up to 100hp per litre, some are close...the 6.1L Hemi from chrysler has an advertised 425hp, but dyno results have shown that its actually around 460 at the crank...thats about 75 hp per litre, NA...if you consider that number, compared to old school engines, such as the 426 hemi which was one of the most popular muscle car engines, and one of the most powerful, it was 426 cubic inches (about 7L) and it had an advertised 425hp, which was grossly under estimated, but that engine only produced an advertised 61hp per litre...my engine is NA, and is about 5.5L, and it produces around 460hp..so im around 84hp/L

 

What engine Pat?

 

I'd about bet he has a 360c.i. small block but I may be wrong

 

340 small block. i also have two vehicles with 360s, but they are no where near as potent as the 340...

 

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine.htm

 

Thanks. I've actually read most of that before... guess I just didn't go far enough to get to the right page.

 

The 340 is a lot more motor than the 360. The 360 on most cases untill recently was setup to be a truck motor with a bore x stroke that promotes gobs of tq but not to much hp. The 340 is awsome, I have a buddy that used to have a old duster with one in it.

 

Patrick I bet I could give you a run for your money .... Im at almost 150hp per liter.

Berz out.