# Can I build a 1000+ Horsepower engine? Apparently so. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [February 21, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-i-build-a-1000-horsepower-engine-apparently-so/24902 "2007-02-21T17:18:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 127
**Author:** ![rskrause](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rskrause/32/7367_2.png) [@rskrause](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rskrause)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 10:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-i-build-a-1000-horsepower-engine-apparently-so/24902/127 "2007-02-23T10:37:39Z")
At the risk of getting into a virtual e-wang swinging match, I want to say that I see **_no way on God’s green earth_** of making an additional 100hp just by changing the way a short block is put together. I don’t believe it. To change my mind, I would want to have at least a general idea of what new materials/methods were used and it would have to appear plausible. I just don’t see how “building an efficient lower end” could produce “almost 100 RWHP more” running lean on 93 octane. Why am I skeptical? Experience - I have never seen anything like those results, and knowledge - the bottom end doesn’t make power, it just uses it up. Where is there 100hp to be gained? Friction? Windage? Rotating inertia? Make all these thing zero, and I still don’t see a gain of 100hp. Nope, no sir, not me. It will take more than a post on the Internet just saying “I did it” to make me believe it. None of you may care if I believe it or not. That’s ok with me, 'cause I don’t care! BTW: do you remember 100mpg carburetors? Now we can add the 100hp bottom end to the list of pipe dreams. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-i-build-a-1000-horsepower-engine-apparently-so/24902)._