Originally posted by Auto-X Fil:


That, combined with some tales of cracked 302 (5.0 Mustang) blocks, got me thinking.



Well you have to realize that are a dozen or more designs of 302 blocks. If your talking about the HO block that they put in fox bodies those are junk. If your making 500 horse your difinately running on borrowed time. But the weak point on those engines are the rod bolts not the block itself. Now if your talking about a Mexican block you can go std bore or .010" and still safely make 600 horse or better. A 69-70 BOSS 302 block. Good luck breaking it unless you have some sort of other internal engine failure.

That's the block I chose for my street srip 347 and I designed that to take over 1000hp (weak point is the crank).

Well there's your Mustang lesson for the day.

Mike

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