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| RE: Congratulations! |
| By Mike McQuesten - 12/07/2001 1:02:34 PM; IP 63.50.108.230 |
Way to go Joshua! You will be able to make as much power in that '65 Center Oiler as you could with a side oiler. A side oiler doesn't make any more power. Now if you plan on running at 6,000 rpms plus for a few hundred miles, yes you might want to get a side oiler. But that block you acquired has all you should need. Especially with the engine mount provisions to fit any chassis from '58 up.
John Saxon and I were just looking at a C5AE 427 yesterday. A sad block. It had a big window in the skirt on the #8 rod side/location. This was a center oiler '65 block like yours. This block was laying on the floor of Dick Flynn's shop, the guy that has built a 361 cranked de-bored '68 service block into a cammer. This 355 c.i. FE Cammer is in a steel '32 roadster and races at Bonneville only. Dick knows his stuff. So there's the broken '27 block, damaged main bearing saddles, a damaged $ steel crank and 7 LeMans rods left. The engine had been in a cobra replica/kit car. Dick doesn't think there's much to save as for the block. The crank? Maybe, but it will require welding,etc. The seven rods? Hmmm, maybe we should pursue those at what might be a reasonable price.....
Congrats again Joshua. It's great to see good things happen to FEnatics. |
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