Realistic horsepower for the street

[Bill Bess]

Well enough is enough, it's kinda like "Once a King always a King,,Once a K night is enough".

400HP to 500HP is plenty, the sound of that loping FE is the most important part, the torque.....the kick in the back of the head when you get on it! Oh My Godddddd!!!!!!
I can't stand it any longer....pedal to the metal.....OOH ! it felt so good! ......Ahh, now I can relax..I need a smoke.

Wait a while and do it again, Life is good,

Bill

[Ant]

I am probably the worst person for going over the top and I know Keith Craft has built me a very good SBF engine that produces well over 600bhp on pump gas, we have had the engine running on the dyno here and its everything I asked for and more! This 358 based engine has 320bhp @ 4000rpm and then it increases by a whopping 200bhp by 5000rpm to 520bhp and then all the way to 600+bhp, and very smooth.
I know its going to be a bit like Jay Leno's 427 Cobra on the street very lumpy and then WOOOOOOOOOOOOW.

I ran a genuine 270 -300bhp in a 289 Mustang engined Zephyr car many years ago and what a delightful free revving kick in the pants engine, so to my mind it all depends on the combination of gearing, transmission etc, I would go for the original Cobra horsepower with more reliability, as for eg a friend has a FE390 Cobra which would be very lucky to have 350 hp and quite frankly its not enough, but if that was a SBF it would be plenty and very lively in a Cobra.

FE390 -427 for the street strive for 450bhp!!
Driveability if you can hop in the car without thinking and go on a run thats what you want, but in my case it will be limited road use and when I do care and attention to preheat the oil and warm up nice etc etc, but I intend on doing some runs like a similar car on CC, John Marsey he has a similar setup in the JBL Boss and he enjoys giving it a blast.