348 Hot Rod Magazine build

For those of you interested, Hot Rod does a build of a high performance 348 in this month's issue. I don't have the mag infront of me but I believe it was putting out around 650hp and 550lbs of torque... not too shabby for a "boat anchor".

 

awesome!

 

Big bucks, too. Looks like my 348 is going to stay stock for now..

 

what do you figure to be the final cost???

 

Great article and it looks like you could build one from a bare block with the aftermarket parts available. $$

 

Slightly warming one up above stock levels can run about 2500 bucks. The engine in the article-maybe ten to twelve grand. Blowing the doors off late models with punks behind the wheels, priceless.

 

damn... didnt realize that much i was hoping someone would say 7-8k

 

Ok, 7-8k

 

I love Hot Rod and I am a subscriber. However, sometimes their idea of low buck and my idea of low buck are entirely different things.

 

x2... if 12k is low buck, i'm in the wrong profession

 

they shouldn't even call it low buck....they were shooting for dyno #s and at a spare no cost build. A "budget" build would reuse rods, crank, heads etc

 

I would like to see what they would do with a budget of $500-1000 and a whole lot of scrounging like the rest of us.

 

It's possible to build a W-engine entirely from aftermarket parts; don't even need a GM block.

 

They'd be building nothing but belly****on motors and/or **** that blows up.

You don't have to duplicate their 348 build to learn something which can be applied to a much lower $$$ 348 build.

 

It might be interesting to go back into HRM from 58-64 and see if they did a hot 348 Build then and what is the same and what is not.

 

LMAO.

That is so funny because it is true! Hell, you be hard pressed to do a good rebuild on a belly ****on motor for under $1000. I'm not talking a hone/re-ring/valve-lap, slap it together deal. I mean a real rebuild.