Will she hold together with a Vortech

Right now I'm running the original long block that's about to tick past 150,000 miles with only your typical bolt-ons. I was looking into building a 347 but thought that with the affordability of Vortech's these days, it be a little cheaper option for the time being to tide me over (Then the stroker will come a year or so down the road). Today I had a compression check done at a shop and this is what they came back with:

1 - 140
2 - 145
3 - 140
4 - 140
5 - 140
6 - 145
7 - 140
8 - 135

How do you guys think it will hold up to the S-Trim? Thanks for the input.
- Justin
 
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what's typical bolt-ons mean? if you don't have a H/C/I, then do that first rather than the vortech. More affordable too.

The longblock is stock. I just have the usual... BBK shorty headers, prochamber w/o cats, mac exhaust, underdrive pulleys, CAI, and I have a Edelbrock 70mm throttle body and elbow (not on car yet) since I'm still contemplating the intake I should get. The rest of the drivetrain, cooling, electrical and suspension stuff can be linked to in my sig.

I was just thinking if I was going to do H/C/I I should get a new short block too. Once you start putting all of that together it ends up a little more expensive, as well as a lot more time to invest in the swap. That's the reason I was thinking just a vortech for now. But if you really think it's a bad idea I will reconsider.
 
I was in the same boat a 5 years ago. I started spraying my car and it held up great around that mileage. The rings are now shot, I didn't make it to 200k. Now it's 331 HCI time. I guess it really depends on how you plan to drive it, and tune it. The numbers look pretty good.

Last year mine dropped to 115 across the board. Still made it a year with 3 or 4 track days of the 125 shot. :D I just wasn't getting the full potential out of it.