Hey everyone,
I'm day-dreaming again about when I'll eventually be able to afford to put real power into my car. So anyone running or have advice on stroking the 4.6 to a 5.0 and then putting a blower on it?
I'm asking because since I would rebuild the engine with forged internals and bottom end before I put a blower on a 60K + engine anyway, I figured why not have that rebuilt bring more cubes?
So any thoughts and experience with this setup? Based on my basic calculations of a 4.6 having 281 cubes and 260 hp at the crank thereby giving us 0.92 horse per cube, would the incremental increase in cubes yield the same amount of hp per cube. So would this 302 ish cubes give me around 278 horses at the crank?
So if a relatively conservative supercharger tends to add 50% more power, that means that a 4.6 would yield 390 hp at the crank while the 5.0 would put it over 416 horses.
Are my calculations right or completely off? I guess the basic question is:
Is this worth it? And thanks for day dreaming with me.
I'm day-dreaming again about when I'll eventually be able to afford to put real power into my car. So anyone running or have advice on stroking the 4.6 to a 5.0 and then putting a blower on it?
I'm asking because since I would rebuild the engine with forged internals and bottom end before I put a blower on a 60K + engine anyway, I figured why not have that rebuilt bring more cubes?
So any thoughts and experience with this setup? Based on my basic calculations of a 4.6 having 281 cubes and 260 hp at the crank thereby giving us 0.92 horse per cube, would the incremental increase in cubes yield the same amount of hp per cube. So would this 302 ish cubes give me around 278 horses at the crank?
So if a relatively conservative supercharger tends to add 50% more power, that means that a 4.6 would yield 390 hp at the crank while the 5.0 would put it over 416 horses.
Are my calculations right or completely off? I guess the basic question is:
Is this worth it? And thanks for day dreaming with me.