stock chevrolet 292 specs are about 280 ft/lbs at 1600 rpm and 165 hp at 3800 rpm. The 2006 4200 has 277ft/lbs at 4800 (advertised to be 95% everywhere else in the rpm range) and 291 hp at 6000 rpm.
Now this is comparing a more race horse (yet stock)4200 with 10:1, F.I.,DOHC, and computer tuning, to a clydesdale 8:1,single bbl carb, OHV , schoolbus/dumptruck plow horse.
I hope the 292 can do as you say as I have a project with an excombine refugee 292. My copies of Tom's dyno-ing seems to make the real star to be the 250, with the 292 never making 300 hp. My take was the 292 never had a strong enough cam to take care of the extra displacement. I would bet if someone built a track 4200 (Self perhaps), that it would so embarass the elder 292 that they would force the 4200 into another class. And I am a fan of the old horse (but I bought too soon).
Now I have never heard of the 300 inch blue oval motors on the track (kinda selectively deaf). Maybe they are allergic to dust.
Frenchie?
