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		| RE: D0OZ service assy. | 
	 
		| By Mike McQuesten - 08/25/2002 11:59:37 PM; IP 67.227.221.213 | 
	 
		That's a nice chunk  of iron to have on hand Hawkrod.  So what you're saying is that you have a  105 block with external skirt casting ribs that has a Ford PART # D0OAZ-6009-E on its shipping container.  This is interesting but it still doesn't fully refute John's theory that Ford offered a 428 service block that may have had D3TE/D4TE external casting numbers.  And John is not saying that all D3TE/D4TE blocks are able to take a 4.13 bore.   However, in my admittidly somewhat limited experience of personally seeing two D3TE 360 pickup blocks become excellent running standard bore 4.13 street  428s,  I believe any early 70's FE block is worth a close look using the techniques John has described.
  Timothy's original question/proposal was to obtain 600 horses from an FE.   This can be done more easily with cubic inches and I think it's possible from even 390 cubes.  But does Tim really have to look for a genuine 428/427 block?   Nope.   Many 361/391 blocks offer all the structural integrity you need for 600 horses.  And they're plentiful.  You have to be willing  to go to the bone yards and get sweaty/dirty in that Texas heat.  I was just in Dallas two weeks ago visiting my son. I was so glad to get back to cool Washington.
  I remember reading many years ago that a certain very experienced super stock 428CJ racer preferred to run C6ME blocks over the '68-'70 CJ blocks.   He'd broken many CJ blocks and had much fewer problems with C6MEs.  I'm not saying all C6ME's will take 4.13.  Or that a C7ME wouldn't work as well.  It's been said numerous times here....have that big FE sonic tested for cylinder wall thickness.    | 
	 
 
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