horsepower1,u and i did not see i to i when you first appeared as horsepower1.i have been sitting back and reading what you post.i told you i am not one to jump on the band wagon and i form my own opinion,well sir you have proven to me that you are for real,and that you post good,factual information.my advice to you would be ,don,t let people like zone suck you into bickering.some people can be shown in black&white but they will still believe what the say to be correct because when someone thinks they know everything they can no longer learn anything.i want to apoligize for posting what you sent me in a pm,i was wrong for doing that and i will never make that mistake again.i have not been posting much lately because i am tired of listening to the bs that has been flying around here lately.

Remember an engine is a compromise. If you are not working on the bottleneck your not going to gain anything. If the heads are not holding you back, putting on better flowing heads is not going to help you. Also don't go on the internet and tell everyone those better flowing heads don't work because you didn't see a gain, you didn't need them. In another application they would work well. From my limited experience - If your going to miss on your combo you want to miss on the small side on heads and cams. It gives you a responsive engine with midrange torque and usually better idle.

Gotta wonder what motor this was done on

no need to wonder,just ask.522 cu in supercharged engine,10 lbs boost,6800 rpm max,heads&cam speced by bob madera,this engine was a total sucess.if this was a n/a build 305 with cnc chaimber would have been used.

I see you dug up some pics of my first boat restoration. Nicely done.

How about you post something you built YOURSELF? Or, maybe just google search some more of other folks info and work and post it as if it was yours.

Funny that mike t had to post your piston to bore clearance here recently. One would think a guy who spends so much time pontificating about engines here would know what his own stuff measures.

you just don,t know when to quit.i took the block to the shop we use because joe was GRAVEL HAULING as you like to put it.i had the xtra .001 piston to bore clearance added. i have a question for you,is the boat in the picture joe posted your current boat because it sure looks that way.

Great post Mike!

Not for nothing Mike, but I would stick with the guy who sold you those AFR's and his advise before you started listening to others on the internet. The last set of AFR's I bought came from Bob too, and he talked me down to the 305's too. But what do I know, because I didn't build my last boat motor. yes, I had S30 do my 509, because he had the equipment to pull the motor (that I don't have) and worked at a machine shop I trusted that could do everything else that needed done. So my boat was sitting 5 hrs from my house. Truthfully not worth the time to haul it back and forth when it could be done and done well right there.

Anytime you wanna bring that pantera out with the supercat engine, I will gladly show you what I've done.

Mike I hope you don't stop posting because it's you and a few others I look for when I'm looking advice on here.