Watched a few episodes of engine masters on YouTube. It's the guys from roadkill so they are definitely going against conventional thinking or even in some cases popular opinions on what equals sanity, but the outcomes were some impressive dyno pulls!

https://youtu.be/p1wU_8-JM

check out the first pull on their 351W stroked to 408. Conservative compression, relatively small street friendly cam, AFR165 renegade heads, Edelbrock air gap, 850 CFM Holley... over 500lbs of torque at from 3500-4500 in N/A trim.

They went up in peak HP and torque with the 195 heads, but not much. The big gun 225's were no better than the 165's due to a conservative cam.

How to build a very streetable monster on a budget just found a bunch of cost savings via *smaller* intake port volume on the heads!


Another pretty nuts build they dynoed was an 1987 HO roller motor converted to carb with a blow through junkyard boost setup using a powerstroke diesel's turbo! Enginemasters meets road kill.....
https://youtu.be/6FNDvLPWxoM

Over 600lbs of torque and 350HP at 3000RPM out of a stock junkyard 302 is pretty sick. Peaked out at 617lbs at 4000, 550HP@5000.

A bit like pulling the pin on a grenade every time you drop the hammer, but why not drop down to 6-8 psi and let it live a while.

With either plant, kiss that T5 behind it goodbye if it ever catches traction! Lol