So heads and cam kills it?
Ok builders using the short block as is,what is the fix?
As Barry wrote in the other thread regarding this build, it's a $7000 block with a $1600 set of heads.
A smallish solid roller cam at 244° at .050", coupled with a poor performing cylinder head. That's a touch low on duration for a 482 with 260-270cfm cylinder heads, especially with it being a solid (you "lose" duration due to lash) cam. If you look at the peak hp rpm, that gives you a clue that it's either a small cam or a poor cylinder head. You could slap a set of TFS heads on and probably touch closer to 600 hp without trying hard. The peak hp rpm would move up as well. In addition, the correct camshaft would build on that.
This is a combination that we would have ran 15 years ago, just because we didn't have better cylinder heads, and that's typical hp for a combo back then. When I first started building FE's with aftermarket heads, 500-525 hp with a 482 was a good average build. Now we are doing that with 390's, 445's, etc.
The FE market has really advanced in the past decade. Glad to see it.
