if you want to forge the internals on the 454... you can buy an old 454 with a billion miles, that came out of an old truck for like 200-300 dollars on ebay (seen it before)... then take that, tear it down, bore it out (if you want, or just hone the cylinders) throw in some forged internals, nice alluminum heads, alluminum intake, and a hot cam (actually crane cams "mild" cam really has significant life on it). my dad went fuel injection on his ss 396 el camino, and he loves it, so you could do the same... or get a nice huge carb... depending on how much change you got left over... i still say you could spray a lil into it
then, after all that's done, you, me, curtis, geno, and john can go race
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'92 RS lt1/t56, lt4 hot cam, 30lb injectors, 54mm throttle body, full exhaust, 4.11 posi, 4 coil ignition, alluminum driveshaft, adj rear suspension, low. springs, electric water pump, custom tune.