[steelcomp]

Hey misfit,

How many FE's have you built in the 700 hp range? And I don't mean put together parts that someone else machined or you bought because someone else said they were the hot ticket. I mean did your own home work, told your machinist what clearances you wanted and why, or for that matter, did your own machining, measure your own clearances, choose your own cam specs, did your own porting, cc'd your own piston domes, figured a true measured compression ratio, did your own valve job, clearanced your own block, degreed your own cam, checked your own v/p clearance, etc. and then when you were all done, know enough about what you did to know what changes to make. How do you check for proper rocker geometry? Why is stroke to rod length ratio so important? How do you determain what rod bolts to use? How do you know if your heads flow too much, or did you know that they can? Should I go on?

Just curious.

By the way, a 427 IS a punched out 390.