opinions 427 bbc or crate 350 290 hp ?

[towrecker]

Originally Posted by jimmydean

Based on the thread title. I thought "Who would ask such a silly question?" but now I understand how you got to this fork.

Regardless, my vote would always be for the 427 over a "dime a dozen" crate 350.

I made me wander if I won the small block for a reason , and I thought I would see what everyone though , I also did a lot of research the past few days , and found the torque curve for the 350 , and for the 427 , the 350 makes peak torque at 5100 , the 427 at 2200 , with the sm420 trans you know that the split between 3 and 4 makes you run high rpm's or lug in the 2k rpm range , the big block should work a lot better just because of that alone , so it's big block time ...I should just use the 350 for the start of a rat rod , always wanted to build one anyways lol