Making it live is alot easier than you think - it's in the tune. If you're content with 600HP, then it's really a snap. The issue with boost is that 'boost is addictive'. I'm sure you've heard it a bajillion times, but it's the truth. There is a mile of difference between 600HP on a safe tune and an unsafe tune. We run on the street, daily driving, a tune that has 4 degrees pulled from it and is at 10.8-11.1:1 when over 3 psi. That tune leave 80-100hp on the table at 10 psi, but the car made it over 5000 miles this summer without a failure. You need to keep your street tune 'away from the cliff's edge'.
Regarding Engine Masters, don't subscribe or succumb to that rubbish. The most recent episode ended it for me (Ford AFR head comparison.) I hate to say it, TV is TV and those guys are all about TV. With that said, I can't blame them, but they need some real world material. Who in their right mind compares heads with an intake that won't keep up with head flow and claims that it's the head's size that is the issue?
My grandaddy told me many times - 'believe half of what you see and none of what you hear' - it applies to Engine Masters.
p.s - I wish you were local.
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motorheadmike - we were posting at the same time. You keep your AFR readings secret? I'll keep some things secret (cam design, piston design, rotating weight, but AFR readings save motors - they are no secret.
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You make a great point. It is essentially a TV production.
HOWEVER. They are doing some pretty good myth busting. This is a good article, in my opinion, of what is possible. They always take off all accessories and run the coolant with an electric pump so you are gonna be 45ish hp shy of a realist real world number. If anything that you should walk away from these videos is that great potential exists past the old ways of thinking.
My personal build is an LSA clone on a 6.0 LQ4. I just learned that the LSA used cast pistons. Stock. You just don’t need to spend the big forged dollars like you used to. The engineering is just that much better.
http://www.hotrod.com/articles/hrdp-1104-594hp-53l-gen-iii-small-block-for-3252/
I wish I lived closer to a lot of the people here. I’d be single but I’d have cool friends. Haha