Power estimated for 388 sbc

Old 05-18-2009, 12:23 PM
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Power estimated for 388 sbc
I am close to finished rebuilding my engine and I need your predictable for the engine HP.
Here my engine specification
-Internal balance rotating kit form eagle with around 10.5:1 compression ratio.
-AFR Cylinder head 210 intake runner
-Luntati solid roller camshaft 243/249 advertise duration and 0.579"int. 0.585"exh. Lift with 110 lobe separation.
-Victor Jr intake manifold.
-750 double pump Holley Carburetor.
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Old 05-18-2009, 02:38 PM
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My eingine is close, 11.0 to 1 and my cam is .600-.600 260-260 @ .050 and made 594hp and 540 ft lbs. I have the same heads and intake. I dod use a 830 Nascar Crab, but the engine only used 535 cfm, so the size carb should not matter
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Old 05-18-2009, 02:47 PM
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boy , i bet that nascar "crab" really helped , just joking around,,you know , I have had a variety of drag cars over th last 40 years and I never once knew what the horsepower was in any of them ...I took them and raced them and if they didn't do what I want , I would work on them till they did..just take it out and have fun Paul
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Old 05-19-2009, 09:47 AM
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500 HORSEPOWER
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Old 05-19-2009, 09:12 PM
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I have a dart block 383
13.54 cr
ported afr 210 heads
ported super victor
970 cfm 4150 carb
cam is 640 lift with 272 and 264 duration solid roller
through 1 3/4 cramic coated headers
peak torque was 525 @ 5300 rpm
and peak hp was 593 @ 6700 rpm

Guess what on another dyno i would might have made 640 hp, so what i used it for was a tuning tool
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Old 05-19-2009, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by maniac
boy , i bet that nascar "crab" really helped , just joking around,,you know , I have had a variety of drag cars over th last 40 years and I never once knew what the horsepower was in any of them ...I took them and raced them and if they didn't do what I want , I would work on them till they did..just take it out and have fun Paul
I agree, we've been getting alot of these HP requests latley, just look what bowhay' HP guess got us into.

If in doubt go dyno the engine or put it on a chassis dyno after its in the car.

I know your curious about your combo and so are we but really all we can do is guesstimate.

Build it, stick it in there and drive it like you stole it.
And like Paul said if it don't do it for ya, then pull it out and try something else.

But if you just have to have a guess, I'd say somewhere around 500HP give or take 50.

JMO>Cp
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