[TexasGator]

“What was on the dyno was a 72, the previous body style, with the LS-5 - all of 275hp”

I really question why someone would spend thousands to blueprint a 275 hp 454 ...

[Spktyr]

-shrug- I got to see a lot of real stupid people with lots of money. This was at the height of the Boomer-driven musclecar craze, where people were looking at Barrett-Jackson auction numbers and thinking that they'd make a killing when they sold off their restored muscle car. My client was a dealership that specialized in separating these people from their money via buying/selling/servicing/restoring/restomodding/etc., classic 60s and 70s American 'muscle' cars and Corvettes. Some people got *really* dumb about it, factory-quality restorations on cars that weren't worth even half of what they'd spent on them. I had that client for several years and found out just how disappointing a lot of the 'muscle cars' were IMHO.

[Spktyr]

Sorry, for ‘factory-quality’, swap ‘concours quality.’