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Sounds like they built some understeer into the C8, to keep inexperienced drivers off the sidewalks.

“Severe understeer will help prevent the overeager owners from pulling a Mustang exit at their local cars and coffee. “

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Wet setup would be fine, beyond fifty-ish I’d probably wanna start to pull some timing. 35 ish would be ok dry with no added fuel, factory tunes tend to be on rich side..

all fun and games until you send a rod through the block
 

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Wet setup would be fine, beyond fifty-ish I’d probably wanna start to pull some timing. 35 ish would be ok dry with no added fuel, factory tunes tend to be on rich side..

Are newer cars that delicate? Back in the day everyone, including myself, would do a 150 wet shot on stock tune ls1s. I even had a 75 wet shot on my stock tune Evo 9. No one I knew ever had any problems. Only thing we did was change to colder plugs.
 

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Are newer cars that delicate? Back in the day everyone, including myself, would do a 150 wet shot on stock tune ls1s. I even had a 75 wet shot on my stock tune Evo 9. No one I knew ever had any problems. Only thing we did was change to colder plugs.

Think the compression is fairly high in this motor and late gen v LT motors haven’t gained much on tune alone, that would indicate fairly aggressive factory tune..anyways I used to do a 150 wet on my old 94 HCI stang, though I had msd timing retard box, more injector and adj fuel pressure regulator....I don’t know if I’d call these new motors more fragile, but they cost a helluva lot more than any old junk we played with back in the day.
 

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Think the compression is fairly high in this motor and late gen v LT motors haven’t gained much on tune alone, that would indicate fairly aggressive factory tune..anyways I used to do a 150 wet on my old 94 HCI stang, though I had msd timing retard box, more injector and adj fuel pressure regulator....I don’t know if I’d call these new motors more fragile, but they cost a helluva lot more than any old junk we played with back in the day.


Used to be able to build a 350 for less than a grand. I knew guys that gave away motors cause they decided it wasn’t worth trying to sell
 

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Think the compression is fairly high in this motor and late gen v LT motors haven’t gained much on tune alone, that would indicate fairly aggressive factory tune..anyways I used to do a 150 wet on my old 94 HCI stang, though I had msd timing retard box, more injector and adj fuel pressure regulator....I don’t know if I’d call these new motors more fragile, but they cost a helluva lot more than any old junk we played with back in the day.
Ya think, my stupid little 2.7 is like almost 11:1. 10.75 to be exact IIRC, and that’s with a boosted engine.
 

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Ya think, my stupid little 2.7 is like almost 11:1. 10.75 to be exact IIRC, and that’s with a boosted engine.


Man its stupid how much compression we run with forced induction nowadays. I had a salesman tell me the 2.7 was high compression turbocharged engine that ran off of 87 and I told him to shut the hell up. No way that yall are able to run 87 on forced induction and not ping and pop.
 

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Man its stupid how much compression we run with forced induction nowadays. I had a salesman tell me the 2.7 was high compression turbocharged engine that ran off of 87 and I told him to shut the hell up. No way that yall are able to run 87 on forced induction and not ping and pop.
18psi from the twins I think Jeff on 87. Computers are a bitch.
 

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Used to be able to build a 350 for less than a grand. I knew guys that gave away motors cause they decided it wasn’t worth trying to sell

We used to have a guy that showed up to the local street races with an SBC swapped fox. We called it the junkyard dog, nothing special, just a lot of dope on relatively stock sbc motors. When he blew one up it was off to the junkyard to pull another. This was 20+ years ago, mid 90s.
 

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Man its stupid how much compression we run with forced induction nowadays. I had a salesman tell me the 2.7 was high compression turbocharged engine that ran off of 87 and I told him to shut the hell up. No way that yall are able to run 87 on forced induction and not ping and pop.
Looked it up, 18 psi of pressure is correct.
 

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We used to have a guy that showed up to the local street races with an SBC swapped fox. We called it the junkyard dog, nothing special, just a lot of dope on relatively stock sbc motors. When he blew one up it was off to the junkyard to pull another. This was 20+ years ago, mid 90s.
Parts cheap as hell, and everywhere.
 

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We used to have a guy that showed up to the local street races with an SBC swapped fox. We called it the junkyard dog, nothing special, just a lot of dope on relatively stock sbc motors. When he blew one up it was off to the junkyard to pull another. This was 20+ years ago, mid 90s.


Yeah the old GM smallblocks were a dime a dozen. We had to help build our trucks or ride the schoolbus so we both had to help put together engines. My brother wanted to learn so he built my 302 and when my 350 blew I had to help disassemble and put the new one together. Back in 96 I paid less than 500$ for parts for it and 500$ for the truck. The 350 block was gave to me and I dropped 600$ minutes to have it built up to a hotter performer than stock. We turned up the timing and jets, I flipped the airfilter lid so it was a cold air induction and busted up the rich kids with it.
 

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