I've heard 450 is the max you want to go from most people, but a handful over the years have said they have went to the 500+ mark and been just fine for months. I've also heard a good tune is very important when you are getting up there in numbers so make sure you get that done right when you start getting close to the 450 mark.
Do you mean the actual block or the rotating assembly? The block is supposed to be good well past 600rwhp. The rotating assembly won't stay together after beyond 500rwhp for any amount of time. If you don't have a good tune like mentioned, you can zap something well below that.
The block is different than the internals pretty much all blocks after the pushrod can take whatever you want to throw at them. The part you need to upgrade are the rods, pistons and the crankshaft.
What we are saying is that dyno was not calibrated right. If you would have taken it to another dyno that is properly calculated that same day it most likely would have had less numbers.
I'll take up for this dude. If he is running a 3.5 pulley he could without a doubt have made those numbers. He isn't running a m90. Mine made 452RWHP with a tvs and 4 inch pulley. Mine was STD corrected though so you can take about 15 hp off that. I'll post up a link of the dyno I had it done. Has bunch of mustangs, their mods and numbers. You can decide if you think it was a happy dyno. thinking of upgrading to the 3.5 pulley from brenspeed. According to Brent they have great results as long as the TQ is under 450
How many pounds of boost? That is really all that matters since boost can be affected by more than just the pulley. 479rwhp is not going to happen on 8lbs of boost. a 4.6 2v will barely touch 400rwhp with 8lbs (depending on the blower), and no the 3v is not that much better than the 2v.
If the OP car had full exhaust and no cats it wouldn't doubt it as much, still would like to see it with a correction though. but still dam near 480 with just a blower and since it's smog legal it's a closed air box also?
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Guys I would dig into some threads on fnsweet and other forums before you called him out to see what is out there. From all my research and I currently own a 3v supercharged car, he doesn't seem far off to me. If I made my power with a 4 inch huge pulley and 5/12 pounds boost why wouldn't he make 480 with a 3.5 pulley. Remember that blowers have come a long way since the little loaf of bread looking m90. And if he's lying, who cares, it's an Internet forum...
Well I hope to make 480 and have the thing stay together. If not the wife says the car is gonna be sitting a while. I said I know it takes at least a couple weeks for them to build an engine.
So I know this thread is old but I was poking around to see what bottom end components I need to upgrade to take my 'stang further. FIgured id pipe up and say I've got a '10 GT with a paxton novi 2200SL running 11lbs of boost and making 525 rwhp and it ran fine all summer....and I don't drive it gingerly lol I don't have the money yet but I want to strengthen whatever needs to be strengthened to take it up further because the car is capable of more.
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