BIG "STREET" POWER WITH A FACTORY 5.0 BLOCK!

[@broke_dongle]

I am the fool that would see diamonds where others see rust. Years ago magazine company's ceased. Thank you Sir for your spicy content.

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Thanks for supporting my channel. Love your comments about diamonds and rust!

[@79beans347]

That thing is super impressive. You give out the best useful information. I'm glad I found your channel and wish I could have found you when I was building my 347 there is a few things that I would have done differently I got 422 rwhp out of it which is weak but I will try and get more out of it with better heads and intake

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Thanks for supporting my channel!

[@perryford1014]

Impressive Power Ben 👍

[@michaelreynolds1500]

Wow. Great content on the short deck.

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Thanks!

[@broke_dongle]

My Korean War dad lost his big brother in '50. Kicked me out when I was 16. Had to learn this stuff. Just throwing away the skate board for a car. I always saw the guy with that car.

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Thanks for your Dads service in Korea and we appreciate his service to our country! Great that you are basically self taught and there is nothing wrong with that and is actually better to know by experience.

[@TheRdub82]

My 700+ horse TFS-R Series headed, 13:1 NA 430W will be running on the 🌽 Ethanol 💨🔥🏁

[@ВасилийУткин-л4н]

Thanks for knowledge!

[@ameliasmith8383]

You bring back so many great memories of my fox body mustang I had. Do you have an experience with Porsche heads?

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Not on a serious scale and wish I had more compared to my experience with Mercedes cylinder heads. They basically are all the same 4v design and exhibit many of the same positive attributes and negative dynamics known to that design.

[@nicasioyumul1799]

That’s very impressive Mr. Alameda!

[@ElvinLeadfoot]

She’s an awesome engine Ben. 8:1 vortech engine She’s a street beast

[@FBstang66]

Really awesome. I can’t wait for my 372 Ben!!!!

[@nickbruscella7320]

Mr. A you are awesome to listen to. Thank you for sharing you know how. I'm going to build my first ford 347 for my 93 foxbody. Daily driver. I have a scat kit with icon flat tops, I'm planning to go to pic a part in henderson,NV. And pull a explorer 5.0. I'm thinking a comp xfi 236 cam and far 185 heafs(11_1 comp.) I have a trickflow efi intake and 70mm th with 30lbs injectors and tuning with mspnp2. Any advice will be much appreciated.

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Sounds good and maybe you should go one more step on the heads perhaps a 190-95 and it should even be better. What ratio rear do you have and transmission? I am close to Henderson by the way...

[@nickbruscella7320]

355 gears an t5 trans for now , going with TKX next year God willng.

[@nickbruscella7320]

Mr.A I'm gonna need a good machine shop here , I know you mention D&R garage on so. Valley view but couldn't find them online.

[@last302]

Pretty amazing what e85 can do. Im in canada and wished e85 was available at the pumps. Im going to be forced to use methanol injection when the time comes. Looking forward to some basic 351w boosted builds from you. Thanks for the videos!

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Last 302, I do have one if the guy would just get off his butt and get it going! It will be E85 as well but @ 408 cid!

[@vrm86gt]

impressive HP!

[@mikes.1882]

Ben, what does it take to mix your own e85? Dangers in all meth? Mitigate those dangers? Thanks

[@benalamedaracing2765]

If you are mixing there is a danger of a fire and also the consistency of your fuel drum to drum or gallon to gallon. I would buy them from a pump and keep it simple.

[@wayneireland4802]

Thanks for sharing your experience mr alameda. do have any tips for 2 valve 6 cylinder engine's or 6 cylinder in general.peace

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Wayne, combustion principles are the same regardless of the amount of cylinders. I have done many 6 and 4s and the recent 6 was a Buick 6 cylinder with Indy heads years ago and that was an eye opening build.

[@Connectfarr]

Great Video Ben. You are very wise.

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Thanks for supporting my channel.

[@Novi347]

Impressive numbers! I do have some questions. What ecu is he using and what was his overall total timing at full boost/load?

[@thegraystang66]

Holley Terminator X and 16 degrees total timing. We didn’t expect to make that much power lol. We only took it to like 5900 lol

[@immortalcars5256]

I’m looking to make a 347 stroker. Stock block. Fully forged internal balance. Can I get 600hp NA at the flywheel? I can use 205 afr heads. Love your videos. Cheers

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Thanks for supporting my channel and please look at my video here of an 8.2 deck that made 589 with smallish hedders and eventually with 1 3/4 made 630. I will post the complete build here and working on it now.

[@mikes.1882]

For how long and what fuel did that N/A produce that 600 ponies

[@ablejohnson]

SOLID!

[@thegraystang66]

Everyone at the dyno couldn’t believe the numbers we put down lol. 😂🙏💪🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@hotrodninja458]

Ooh boy 👍🏼

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Gee, thanks again for the videos and pics!

[@stuartwall8212]

HP per cube is very high....and at only 6000rpm? wow.

[@evanarthur7535]

Nice combo. Another point of compression, a slightly larger cam, maybe drop 2 lbs of boost and stay with the 6k rev limit to make similar or more hp and have max reliability. How many cubes is that engine? Are you a fan of Fluidampr balancers?

[@TheRdub82]

Bore stroke sounded like a 331ci SBF. Agree with you on compression and boost. Not sure why they don't just use a Dart SHP block

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Evan, limiting that upper rpm is what help save these engine beside's the E85. Gasoline even race gasoline has spikes and peaks during combustion and these is the dynamical characteristic that somehow contributes to detonation/pre ignition issues. Alcohol or methanol is a very stable fuel burn quality unlike gasoline. In short, it helps save high horsepower engines.

[@benalamedaracing2765]

@@TheRdub82, Gee the owner wasn't expecting these much power out of his engine and told me few days ago about switching to a Dart or Boss block from Ford Motorsports just to be safe. It is a 347/3.400 stroke.

[@TheRdub82]

@@benalamedaracing2765 makes sense. As a builder do you prefer the dart blocks? From what I've heard from other builders is Dart blocks come from the foundry require less machining. Boss 302/351 blocks are limited iron eagle, shp, shp pro, super iron eagle offer more options. Thoughts?

[@benalamedaracing2765]

@@TheRdub82, for serious builds with lots of power I prefer the Dart blocks. The Ford blocks are sometimes inconsistent of the bore thickness and I wonder if that is not true anymore. Otherwise their blocks are of high quality but ultimate strength wise will not compare.

[@phonypony5.0]

This is a little off topic but I'm on e85 with my 11 1/2 to 1 406 sbc and I'm getting ready to spray it on nitrous and people are telling me I cant spray nitrous with e85 as the fuel enrichment no matter how much I jet the fuel side up is this true ? ...I'm only wanting to hit it with 150/200 shot

[@benalamedaracing2765]

It should be no problem and just increasing the fuel side jetting to compensate for E85 additional fuel when nitrous is on. Talk to hour nitrous manufacturer where to start with the hp level you have and the fuel side adjustments. It should even be safer because E85 is a lot more stable than gasoline.

[@mikes.1882]

The difference is the E85. Alcohol is smooth and stable. That's the difference

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Yes sir the consistent and stable burn properties instead of the spikes and unstable condition during combustion that makes it less desirable.

[@mikes.1882]

@@benalamedaracing2765 I grew up on Dirt. :)

[@markcole6475]

A 500 hp 5.0 engine running at 7000 won’t last as long as the same engine making 600 hp at 6000 rpms! Harmonics will destroy an engine also. Similar to running an engine on the street vs at the track where it hooks! Spinning the tires isn’t as hard on the bottom end vs hitting hard off a sticky track! That Hook at the track is trying to force the crankshaft out the bottom of the block!

[@benalamedaracing2765]

RPMs does kill engines and that is no doubt very true.

[@Turbo4Joe363]

I don't understand staying with an OEM 5.0 block when you are putting SO much money into the rest of the engine....? Why risk a wasted engine, or limit the RPM & HP to help the block survive, while crossing your fingers and hoping for the best!?? On a budget build it's totally understandable. On a more expensive build...Dart SHP all the way.

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Agree with you on the aftermarket block. But the owner never in his wildest imagination made more power than what it actually did! lol. He knew it once he saw the numbers exceed 600 rwhp and he cut it short at 6K which was smart.

[@finnroen2334]

I do not understand why americans are so obsessed with high compression ratio on boosted engines. The peak cylinderpressure to BMEP is high and this is very hard on engine parts. I see E85 guyes lift heads, blow headgaskets and break parts very often and I belive it is because they have been to aggressive with their spec. Here a local hero with a stock LM7 block and the stock 862 heads. He may run racefuel later and if this is not enough to the 1/4 mile times he wants, then he probably will convert to E85 and increase the boost. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHOXpoKwetaSfJo

[@benalamedaracing2765]

Finn, let me make myself clear and with most N. American engine builders as it pertains to excessive compression ratios as you stated. It is true! However, what you fail to realize is the fact conventional even race 2v heads are intake flow limited. You can boost all you want but the main hindrance is that one sided intake valve (as opposed to Europeans/Japanese 4vs 2 intake valves which breathes superior in most if not all aspects of valve capability) in these V8s of medium to very big "mountain motors" (engines lol) displacing to now 750-900+ cid boosted! You can never adequately install a big enough intake valve (for flow) to the point of valvetrain stability due to weight issues with the pushrods, valve, rocker arms and massive lifters with double wheel designs. This said, we are relegated to raising compression big time to circumvent many of these flow shortcomings. Our BMEP's will never reach what you in Europe/Japan are capable because of. Therefore, small blocks making over 2400+rwhp run with 11-11.5 and big blocks way above these and small 4 cyl. 4v's no more than 9.5-10.1 on alcohol. Those who build engines below what I stated and race will not qualify or just basically gate keepers or rear door guards for the competition.

[@trailerparkcryptoking5213]

Well now you understand.....less flow = less cylinder pressure, which can handle more compression....FYI learn how to make comments without sounding condescending.....unless it’s something you can’t control....

[@finnroen2334]

@@benalamedaracing2765 Thank you for a very good answer. I always divide horsepower and torgue by the MAP pressure to get to what I call "the theoretical NA engines performace" curves. This most often reveal that increased stroke always decrease rpm potensial and ergo horsepower since the engine can not breathe at high rpm. Then one has to start to compensate....

[@hotrodninja458]

@@finnroen2334 It's what we do. Get the most out of everything 😲🙏🏻👍🏼

[@mikes.1882]

Race wins, buddy. It's all in the wins. That will always be the reason