I was talking to a friend of mine and she is either worried about me having this kind of horse power now or what, but she is worried that since this engine has all the high performance upgrades and everything else that its gonna fuse something together, or its gonna burn and melt the engine, or that the camaro body won't be able to handle it, from what i have been told about the engine and the car its a chevy small block 355 with 420 horse, with the following inside, i'm not sure what she is worried about... i don't think that anything is gonna melt but then again i don't know a whole lot about engines, the guy that did this has reinforced everything, nothing is even remotly stock on the car.. what do you guys think?
Engine:
The engines journey started by immediately pulling the stock V6 out and dropping a fully blueprinted 420 horsepower motor. This 355 Cubic Inch motor has

10:1 Compression

Energizer hydraulic cam shaft

Scorpion roller rockers

$1000 Edelbrock Performance RPM Aluminum Heads

Airgap manifold

Headman Headers

Holley 670 Street Avenger Carb.

MSD Billet Distributor

Blaster II Coil

MSD 6AL Ignition Module

MSD Spark Plug Wires

120 Amp Chrome Alternator

Chrome engine brackets, etc.

K&N Oval filer

Electric Fan Setup

Motor has less than 50 miles on it, never raced yet, its barely broken in!

The engine is complemented by a Turbo 350 transmission with a TCI High Stall Torque converter..

 

Fuse something together or melt the engine? Are you flying the star ship enterprise or something. Sounds like your warp core is about to breach.

If the engine is pushing over 400 horse power SFCs would probably be a good idea. Other things like drive shaft loops and even a roll cage couldn't hurt. I saw a video of a 3rd gen running an 11 second quarter and about halfway down the track it blew off one of the T-Tops.

 

i'm not planning on using it in races yet.. just to drive around in so far..... becausei don't have any other daily driver vehicles.

 

i'm running more ponys than that and the only thing that melts is the tires. That and the pride of the mustang owners i race

 

just make sure the radiator is well and able to handle the extra heat put out by the engine. the stock radiator was designed to only cool a low compression/low horsepower engine. more horsepower means more heat. install a pusher fan in the fron of the radiator if needed along with the puller thats on the engine side of the radiator. we're having cooling problems with our new engine, we think its bad timing making it run hot, but we gotta sort that out first. once it's done it should be pushin the 400 hp line.