Originally Posted by brian41

Sorry............. no redo's with this crowd...........look at the bright side, the building trade is picking back up.

Originally Posted by MILD THUNDER

You can speak for yourself, but please, dont speak for "this crowd".

I for one would like to see his input , and let the rest of us decide what to do with the information he provides.

Originally Posted by horsepower1

My name is Scott Foxwell. I am originally form the central coast of CA (Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties). I started Foxwell Motorsports in 2003 when I decided to give the performance cylinder head and engine building thing a go. I was a general contractor at the time (why the references to dry wall) and was doing this on the side in my garage. I had a drag boat (how I met Chris Straub) and sold it to buy my first equipment...a VGS seat and guide machine and Sioux valve facer. I worked for Dart in 1990 and was fortunate to work with Rich Maskin as he was developing his Pro Stock program, I was there when he was doing engines for Mark Powuk and the Summit Racing Pro Stock team. When I moved back to CA I went to work for Alan Johnson for a little over four years and gained a great deal of knowledge and experience there, again, very fortunately. I've been involved in all sorts of racing from boat drags, car drags, oval track, road racing and land sped racing. I was the lead fabricator on two Bonneville cars both of which hold multiple 300+ mph records. For a while I was doing more fabrication than I was engine work but my passion lies in the power. Now I work with Chris Straub at Straub Technologies doing induction development and special project engine building. I served my country during peace time as a crewchief on Blackhawk helicopters from 1981-1983 and graduated distinguished grad from the US Army Tech school out of about 300 students. I attended Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univ. working toward my A&P license but never completed that. My father was a very successful mechanical engineer, racer, car guy and pilot. I was born 9/8/1958.

Originally Posted by horsepower1

I have to amend some of the numbers above. It was a little hectic yesterday and I unfortunately transposed a few numbers and I want to make the correction clear to everyone;
The valve area on the 305 heads is not 3.79 sq in. It is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.05 sq in. Which is plenty for our 540 turning 6000 rpm. When we jump to 7000 rpm...and i should have caught this...the cross section still remains usable but the valve area demand increases significantly. I was mistaken when I said the valve area of the 305 was still adequate. My apologies to all.

Originally Posted by buck35

Right or wrong you entered this debate as one smug sum beech , gave incorrect information and declare victory?
Were you both correct or neither, the lack of gloating suggests we were being baffled by book knowledge, I don't build engines but I'm nobody's fool either.

Originally Posted by horsepower1

My name is Scott Foxwell. I am originally form the central coast of CA (Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties). I started Foxwell Motorsports in 2003 when I decided to give the performance cylinder head and engine building thing a go. I was a general contractor at the time (why the references to dry wall) and was doing this on the side in my garage. I had a drag boat (how I met Chris Straub) and sold it to buy my first equipment...a VGS seat and guide machine and Sioux valve facer. I worked for Dart in 1990 and was fortunate to work with Rich Maskin as he was developing his Pro Stock program, I was there when he was doing engines for Mark Powuk and the Summit Racing Pro Stock team. When I moved back to CA I went to work for Alan Johnson for a little over four years and gained a great deal of knowledge and experience there, again, very fortunately. I've been involved in all sorts of racing from boat drags, car drags, oval track, road racing and land sped racing. I was the lead fabricator on two Bonneville cars both of which hold multiple 300+ mph records. For a while I was doing more fabrication than I was engine work but my passion lies in the power. Now I work with Chris Straub at Straub Technologies doing induction development and special project engine building. I served my country during peace time as a crewchief on Blackhawk helicopters from 1981-1983 and graduated distinguished grad from the US Army Tech school out of about 300 students. I attended Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univ. working toward my A&P license but never completed that. My father was a very successful mechanical engineer, racer, car guy and pilot. I was born 9/8/1958.

Originally Posted by MILD THUNDER

I must have missed him being a "smug sum beech" ...

Just curious Buck, what is making you jump on the ole bandwagon? Did foxwell do you wrong too?

Originally Posted by buck35

Not at all, He called out another member over next to nothing, declared victory and then amended his argument. Seems to me they were both right or both wrong. Nothing more nothing less.

Originally Posted by sutphen 30

your better off following these builds to get real 700hp engines.
http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/engine/...k-chevy-build/

http://www.superchevy.com/how-to/eng...engine-builds/