EMC report

[Royce]

Quick update. Blair Patrick is currently in the lead in scoring with his 400 inch FE.  He made peaks of 597 horse 510 torque with iron heads 10.5 compression and .600 valve lift. The Chevy competition is concerned. Lol

[drdano]

Incredible number.  Can't wait to hear the details on this build.  Is he running his CNC C4AE-G heads? 

[Royce]

Yes C-4 G head not sure on porting.. Kaase yet to run..

[TomP]

Thanks for the update, I've seen nothing else, there were usually several sources for up to the minute info in past years.

[CaptCobrajet]

There are five engines left to run.  Kaase is first out in the morning, and will definitely be a serious threat.  He told me today that he thinks it will be a tall order to get past the 390.  No doubt he is a sharp cookie.  I guess we will have to see.  Thanks to all of my friends and customers who frequent here who have been interested and supportive.  Both the block and the head castings came from forum members. Fingers crossed.......

The heads on my engine are extensively ported.  We made programs, so I will be able repeat these ports in pretty much any Low Riser type head. 

[WConley]

Keeping my fingers crossed Blair!  Hopefully that little FE can slay Goliath.

- Bill

[cjshaker]

Almost 600hp on a small cubic inch FE with factory iron, on what sounds to be a pretty streetable combo, given the right car. And not even using a factory "performance" head! I'd love to get a gander at the torque curve.

Good luck, Blair. Beating Kaase at anything engine related would be quite a feat. That man reads a rule book from back to front, then turns it inside out, but I think the rules really limit him this year. It'd be awesome to see an FE in the winners room!

[Royce]

Kaase just ran basically put up same numbers as Blair with 30 more cubes. Only good enough for 3rd place.  2 ND place is a very impressive 289 from Mummert.  4 small scrubs to run yet. Unless one of them really surprises me I would say Blair's score is pretty safe

[Barry_R]

Looking good for Blair right now.  I ran one of the small blocks on my dyno and know that we cant cover the number with that one (we will do our best but it wont be enough).

My 410 came in light, but the dyno numbers were exactly identical to what I had at home - within one horsepower and one pound of torque.  Dyno calibration is spot on....

Put in a huge thrash yesterday to get Boshears 429 running.  Engine had never been fired up before the competition.   Had an exhaust rocker come loose during warm up.  We got it together and made some clean pulls.  Might have been competitive with some development

Kaase should have painted that engine blue...

[mbrunson427]

I'm wondering what head castings and everything that small block ford ran. That's the last engine I expected to be battling for the lead.

Very cool, Blair.

[CaptCobrajet]

Pleasantly surprised this morning.  I kinda expected Kaase to score better than us.   We had about 60 points more.  He's a smart and gracious guy either way.  He told me that he wished I had built a 427 because he hated to get his ass kicked by a 390......all with a smile.  Fingers crossed.......a batch of SB Chevs still left.

[Royce]

2 SBC down and 2 to go to try and knock off Blair. 

[ntheogen]

Oh man this is awesome, so exciting to read the play by play. Congratulations Blair, stoked to see you kickin some butt at EMC this year. Do us proud...

[cjshaker]

Pleasantly surprised this morning.  I kinda expected Kaase to score better than us.   We had about 60 points more.  He's a smart and gracious guy either way.  He told me that he wished I had built a 427 because he hated to get his ass kicked by a 390......all with a smile.  Fingers crossed.......a batch of SB Chevs still left.

LOL, Kaase is most certainly a gracious guy, and genuinely very down to earth and nice. BUT, it serves him right for going to the "dark side" 

Outstanding job, Blair! I still wonder if people get just how incredible those numbers are. That's 1.49 HP per cubic inch!! With factory iron! That's hard enough to do with good aftermarket aluminum heads, and there aren't a lot of guys who can pull that off.

[e philpott]

Way to go Blair !! Ask Jon Kaase about his Tunnel Port molds he has