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One curiosity to comment on is that the Caddy 331 and FirePower, the A block and the Stude all used the same sort of lugs on the block for motor...
Seventy horsepower from 134 cubes does not seem to require a 2 inch intake valve to me. I think the Crosley with 45 cubes could have that kind of...
I know this is the USA, but take note of what the Australians did with a small inline six called the Holden gray engine. A shrunken Stovebolt...
Why not the slightly later Hemi Willys Tornado 230 six? Follow that one to Brazil where it got a short stroke block with seven main bearings and...
Join me on my FB blog "looking back racing" if you are not hung up on just the lead sled cruising scene for the Sonic drive ins on Wednesdays. We...
You would hardly find one anyplace, but the English Daimler Majestic V8 was a more weight efficient (yet stouter) version of the Red Ram 270 that...
Nobody has ever mentioned GM suing Studebaker over engine similarities, features of which were not patented, and dimensions which are not...
The Lincoln Y block was a deepskirt copy of the Kettering Olds, and shared the unfortunate extended bellhousing to fit the original GM Hydramatic....
The Poncho 370 was a pretty stout engine and possessed of reverse "gusher" cooling for heavy duty truck use. In that size it had pretty good rod...
The small MoPars, the 241/270 Red Ram and the single rockershaft "PlyFire" had marginal bottom ends, not stout like the eventual 318 A-block which...
The Stude is indeed overlooked for reasons of excess weight, insufficient bore and valve size, crappy porting constricted by EIGHTEEN ill...
The 1957 Rambassador AMC Y block you mentioned is probably the best of the offbrands. Except for the exhaust side head porting there is almost...
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