I don't know if my engine's considered as hot, but this is what it is:
3.3 VC Commodore blue engine, rebuilt and sprayed Black to suit my VK Wagon:
60thou bore-out with hypereutectic flat-top pistons - hypers for low bore wear
Decked block for zero clearance with valve reliefs
Yella Terra Alloy 12-port head
Independant adjustable roller rockers with guide plates
Crow Heavy-duty pushrods
Low wear piston rings
Isrealii connecting rods and mains bearings
High energy sump with mains bearing girdle
New camshaft bearings
JP hellical timing set
JP high-volume Oil pump
Crow 35666 camshaft
New race curved HEI distributor running Bosch transistor-type coil and champion steel leads and copper plugs
wildcat extractors
Triple 1-3/4" SU's on John Cain manifold.
reco'd "LR" Heavy-duty trimatic out of VK EFI model.
10-bolt 3.08:1 salisbury diff
+ a few extras
Car goes awesome, and is a real pleasure to drive. Throttle response and pickup is damn impressive. The old girl idles and runs like a dream. I'm so impressed with the way it performs, that I don't see the need for a V8 as it'd leave old stock 308's and 253's for dead. The engine owes me $3K+, and that's with me doing all the work myself. There's not much else i'm considering doing to her apart from maybe putting in a bigger cam sometime down the track. The cam that's in there is: 25/65 on the intake with 420thou lift, and exhaust is 75/25 with 440thou lift.
I have a VN sedan with brand new lowered king springs and monroe GT shocks right round and VX front callipers and discs. I'm hoping to pickup a VC SL/E that i've got lined up, so i can fully strip it down and replace all the suspension and braking components out of my vn. It'd be an awesome project to fully strip-down and re-spray the SL/E, use the good stuff out of my VN and then transplant the VK motor into the SL/E. Basically my project for the year. Other than that, i'm currently overhauling a 5-speed for the VK.
Cheers!