[RocktimusPryme]

I think ~500 plus or minus 50 would be 80% of the market though. So that’s an important distinction. They are going to be fine for a large portion of the market.

Slap an out of the box set on a 557 block and make the max of that blocks power anyway is a pretty solid deal for the weekend warrior. The longer I’ve been in the hobby the more I have slid into the “don’t get it perfect, just get it running” category. I say that as someone who looks at my motor that made 590 HP and is considering a cam and intake swap. I should take my own advice more.

I think it’s easy to loose sight that most of us even in the street section are not the average motor enthusiast consumer. I was at a swap meet last week looking down my nose at like 50% of the crowd who go in and mostly walk out with a reproduction knock off sign and maybe a new in box Chinese HEI. It’s like the equivalent of a dude who orders his steak medium well in Ruth’s Chris. But then I remind myself that the hobby dies without those guys and it’s not my place to judge them or what they consider fun.

Out of all the classic cars on the road how many visit the drag strip even once a year? Of those how many really really try to make them faster? An out of the box set of mediocre heads, a cheap HEI that has way too much vacuum advance, and an out of the box vacuum secondary holley avenger that is probably too rich is going to make most people happy. It starts with no problem and does good burnouts on rock hard white letter BFGs.

I also understand that for those of you who’s careers are the industry don’t want to put your name on a mediocre product. Even if that’s what the customer would be fine with. So I guess I see both sides of that coin.
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