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Originally Posted by THE EVIL TW1N
Ill take 10 well placed and much stronger head bolts over 16 small bolts with most located on the deck any day (and some in the water jacket!) , but to each his own i guess. Have fun distorting your deck due to the ill concieved design of where chevy decided to put your head bolts.
Larger cranks do help the ford. Just for quick reference look at SCATS 9000 series (cheap/cast) crank for the 460,it has an HP rating of 900hp and the FORGED 454 crank (over twice as much $$$$) is only rated at 100more hp. The cast 454 can only take 700hp. according to them.
And no, we dont run crummy Chevy rods, we run aftermarket rods that are the most common in size which happen to be 2.2in at the journal which the BBC guys run as well. I run SCAT rods, last i checked they aint GM.
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Well my deck isn"t distorted yet and the blocks 40 years old, there's 5 bolts around each cylinder with provisions for 2 more in the valley on my block and alot of early performance blocks. Good luck running 900 horsepower through that chinese Scat crank, well see how long it last, those Scat rods your running are also chinese forgings machined at Scats shop . All those aftermarket rods are based of BBC rod journals and rod width ( there are no Scat or Eagle BBF rods just BBC rods you grind your Ford crank to fit)