High Performance Engines

There are many things to consider when it comes to building a high performance engine. First of all will the engine be in a race car or a car that is driven quite frequently on the street. If your wallet has no limits and you want the best of both worlds of being able to drive your car on the street and take it out to the track on the weekends and run 1/4 mile times that astonishes the crowd, then we will make some suggestions on building a high performance engine like no other.

First of all if you want the engine to run on pump gas without any power adders such as nitrous oxide, superchargers, blowers, turbos, etc. then you want to build the largest cubic inch motor you can get away with and put it in the lightest car possible. When I say large cubic inches I am talking about a motor in the 672 range. Sure you can build something smaller but the easiest way to build power in a pump gas high performance engine is big cubic inches.

We also want an engine that makes peak horsepower in the 5500-6000 rpm range. This means we can build a high horsepower engine that will live for a long time considering all the components are carefully matched and the machine shop along with the engine builder knows what they're doing.

For more on how to build a high performance engine visit Hotrod Pitstop.