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500 HP Chev 383 Small Block

Wanna See 500 Horses Stuffed Into a Crate?

If you like the idea of screaming down the quarter mile in sub 10’s in your old Torana, then ask Santa real nice and he might just get you a ready built engine from High Performance World. Fresh for 2008, HPW have started building  complete engines that are Dyno tuned, tested, run in and ready to bolt in and race.

Crate engines of this size normally punch between 300 - 330 horses. This one punches 507 horse fair on the snout and it is ready to bolt into anything you are game to attach it to.

This engine has hot rod written all over it but if you are up for some fun, go find yourself an old LJ in a wreckers some where for $400, bolt this engine in and rip down the quarter mile in around 10 seconds.

Of course there could be some interesting side effects when you try to stop and whether the gear box and diff would hold up for more than one run is anyones guess. If you survive, (we feel confident the engine will) you could take whatever is in your Hot Rod right now and give the other half a scare by popping it in her ‘shopper’ (think Oxy and crowbar plus some heavy duty front shocks) then you have the perfect situation. A 500hp Chev looking for a home and a Hot Rod with no engine.

If you are wondering what the heck is in this engine that it pulls those kind of horses read on below for the good stuff:

HPW cooking it up in the kitchen

Ingredients
1 x 383 Chev Small Block
750 Holly
Everything on shelf A, B and some from C

Method
Insert go fast bits into engine - throw it on the engine dyno - tune the sucker using special tricky programs that we came up with by accident one night with JB* and protect with our lives.

Bolt into car, connect the fuel and start it.

Seriously, if you want to know what is in the engine, send a stamped, self addressed envelope to ‘How to build a bloody fast engine’ c/o High Performance World etc, etc.

Total cost: $16 800 inc gst.
Feeling you get when your dads old LJ Torana pops wheel stands and does the quarter mile in sub 10’s ...priceless.










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