I would recommend getting a DSS Block. If you are spending so much money on the car already. What is a decent block going to set you back. I would just do it incase so nothing goes wrong and destroys your new parts. If you do end up cracking the block you are going to be wishing you did by a new short block. DSS 331 would be a good choice.
It ain't your normal block check the info. on the level 10 and level 20 race prepped blocks. Dart and "R" block are too expensive for what they are (even thought they are great blocks). The D.S.S. block is very reliable. Just look at Rick Anderson's red coupe from AFM its in the latest 5.0mag and he has put everything in gods name on there at one time or another. It once has a vortech with the vortech mondo box intake. Now its sporting 250 shot of the giggle gas via NOS direct port kit.
Best I can tell, they're still using production blocks. Yeah, they're doing a lot of fancy machine work to it, but I fail to see how that does anything for the strength of the material. Possibly makes it more efficient, as they advertise. Here's there sheet for Level 10/20 machine work. At best, maybe all that machine work on the 20 provides for less stress on the block. I'd be wiling to bet that a filled & girdled stock block would handle just as much power. Might not be efficient as their claims, but it would still get the job done. I haven't compared any prices, so maybe buying their block all ready to go is worth the $$ over tearing down a stock block and hauling it back & forth to a local machine shop. Plus, they've probably got these blocks on standby, packaged and ready to ship.
Well, in the time it's taken me to read all of DSS's pages and write this, I've come to the conclusion that I would probably consider purchasing their block for a street buildup...Except a very good friend of mine has his own machine/engine/performance ship, so I'll probably stick with him until it comes time to step up to a Dart or other high end block
Well, in the time it's taken me to read all of DSS's pages and write this, I've come to the conclusion that I would probably consider purchasing their block for a street buildup...Except a very good friend of mine has his own machine/engine/performance ship, so I'll probably stick with him until it comes time to step up to a Dart or other high end block