Another Junkyard Turbo 351 Making Silly Power.

They are still junkyard builds, keep that in mind. A junkyard dyno build is not the same as building an engine for an actual street car, or race car. There are a lot of people out there now grabbing up old LS and 5.3 engines and boosting the crap out of them just to see what they can do with it. If you are doing this for novelty sake have fun. It's not my thing. A stock bottom end with a bunch of boost is going to break at some point. You might get 5 passes out of it, you might get 20 passes out of it, but it's guaranteed to give up at some point. Sitting on the track with a broom sweeping up what's left of your rods while there are 200 people in the line pissed off because you shut down the track with your crappy junkyard build is not my idea of a good time. Just remember that while you were out there to see what you could do with your $500 engine, there are guys who spent $500 to tune for just one night losing test passes. I only bring it up, because when I used to go to the track on a regular basis, it used to irritate the crap out of me. There was this team of guys who would show up with these old Toyota Starlets trying to see how fast they could go with an old ty Mazda rotary. 2 out of 3 times they would blow the engine and oil out the track and everyone lost a pass while they were burning the oil off and picking up Apex seals.

There are a lot of opinions on blocks. The 351 is better because it has enough meat in the bottom of it to drill it for a 4 bolt main cap. In my experience, as a 2 bolt it isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Kurt