He does make a point... unless you do the work yourself... and the engine was free... parts found cheap, its not really worth making a stock engine do more then what it was made to do..tommyj3 said:If you were going to spend that much money on a old briggs engine that parts would be hard to get. You should buy one of these new Briggs Racing Engines.
http://www.briggsracing.com/display/router.asp?docid=101243
These engines aren,t cheap, but they are fast. Plus all types of speed parts to make them faster.