In bracket racing is there advantages of running a big block over a small block? It all depends on what you really want to do. There are plenty of small blocks out there with standard 23 degree heads that keep up with the big blocks. With the inches you can get out of a small block these days you can have a small block appearance, but really have as big and in some cases more cubic inches than a big block.

From my experiences and what I've seen at the track most small blocks will outrun the big blocks in the short times early in track, but the big blocks will run bigger mile per hour.


















To get a fairly light car to run in the 10 second range it would take a pretty good built small block with aftermarket heads to accomplish that. With the big block you can take a basic motor with 10:1 compression, little head porting and mild cam and still be able to run on pump gas to go in the 10's. When you get down the 8-9 second range it's much more difficult to get a 23 degree headed small block to go especially into the 8's unless it's in a very light car. You can spend almost as much money for a 434 c.i. small block shortblock as you would spend on a 565 c.i. big block.

In my opinion big blocks are the way to go bracket racing. It takes less work to go as fast if not faster than a small block. It's alway great to see a fast small block but big blocks are the way to go.

Long time racing and muscle car enthusiast, welder, machinist, business owner of performance shop http://www.davesraceshop.com and long time drag racer.Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=David_Tishko

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With the small blocks weighing less and having almost as much if not as much stroke as some big blocks they are able to take off better, but with the flow from the big block heads they are able to get more horsepower and turn that into big mile per hour. In order to get a small block to run as good as a big block in the long run it would probably take more $ to be able to keep up with the big blocks.
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