[blykins]

Bob,

Getting 450-475hp (especially with a stroked 351 like the 392 is) is no problem. Even when you talk about the money it would take to get that kind of performance out of the engines that I've listed, it's really not that big of a deal.

The issue with the Ford Racing engines is you pay $8800-8900 for an engine. Then you get it in the car and figure out that it's nowhere near being ready to start and you have to buy $1000-2000 in parts to get it fired, and you still have an engine that's never been broken in or dyno'd.

Ford Racing makes some great parts, but you can't compare a complete ready to drop in, dyno'd, hand-built engine to a half-complete, non-tested, "assembly line" engine.