Time to plan: 355 or 383...need expert advice!

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Aug 2, 2006 | 11:02 PM

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Gun5

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Re: Time to plan: 355 or 383...need expert advice!

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Originally Posted by Evil Eric

I should have added that I have a tad over 400hp (well more than that at the flywheel) with the dyno sheets to prove it and I have are a 355 all forged block @ 12.x:1 compression, le1 heads and a custom comp grind cam. Stock fuel and ignition system, save for 8mm plug wires.

A4 or manual... people are saying i won't break 400 hp with my setup in my sig ill be close i feel.. (ya i know my cam isnt that extreme)

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Aug 3, 2006 | 07:16 AM

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Sweetred95ta

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Re: Time to plan: 355 or 383...need expert advice!

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Originally Posted by Gun5

A4 or manual... people are saying i won't break 400 hp with my setup in my sig ill be close i feel.. (ya i know my cam isnt that extreme)

There's no way with an automatic, stall, and a cc305, that you'll break 400 rwhp.

Aug 3, 2006 | 08:30 AM

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WS Sick

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Re: Time to plan: 355 or 383...need expert advice!

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Originally Posted by Evil Eric

Compression does alot. also you said you have all forged bottom end, Thos epeices would have been almost identically priced for the 383.

I'll also bet youre torque peak and curve would not have matched a simularly built 383.

Injectors and a pump would have merely been another 300$.