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| Later 427 SO Blocks |
| By MikeK - 03/14/2006 8:20:17 PM; IP 207.255.247.29 |
A while ago I bought a Boss 429 from former Funny Car crew chief Dee Keaton. The subject came around to 427 side oiler blocks. Dee said that he had much better luck with the earlier 65-66 blocks as the later 68 hyd. blocks had a tendancy to split up through the mains and into cam and lifter area. These were obviously stressed as he was running nitro, but this is the first that I've ever heard this. Anyone else heard that for a failure? All I've heard has been Dove's claim that the Marine blocks had thicker cylinders.
For those of you that might not know Keaton, he crew chiefed the Stone Woods and Cook F/C, some for Pulde, and the M/T Titanium Pinto. Unbelievably down to earth guy with a ton of knowledge. He had the Boss motors figured out when M/T was too stubborn to listen. |
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