Our Baddest Short Block Build Yet...

[FattyBoomBatty]

Lately there has been a lot of misinformed discussion about o-ringing blocks on the starquest boards. At what power levels have 4g63 people been seeign benefits/longer life from o-ringing as opposed to say, A1 studs with a regular MLS gasket or what have you?

[v8klla]

To be honest with you we recommended against the O-ringing especially on a street driven vehicle as we feel some A1 head studs and a good head gasket will be sufficient for upwards of 700whp.

This customer is having Devo Tuning in Illinois assemble the long block, and they plan on using copper O-rings and the Mitsubishi MLS head gasket. As far as we can tell their thoughts here are that the O-ring will help avoid a blown head gasket by reinforcing the seal of the MLS.

[Jakey]

How many shortblocks do you fellas have out in customers' hands now?

[v8klla]

Good question, the word is starting to travel as we sold two off of our website in the last week. I would venture to guess that there are probably 20 roaming around the twin cities at this point...

Chris