In a message dated 9/28/2000 6:44:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
jimg2@webtv.net writes:
> Dan, I'm the guy who said the difference was 66 lbs. A while back I was
> at a shop that builds racing engines and the old debate about how light
> the BOP aluminum v-8 were vrs the thin-wall cast iron Ford small block
> v-8 and being as they had one orf each waiting their turns to get on the
> Dyno, bets were made and the engines were weighted. These were complete
> engines, ready to run.
> Results; the Ford was 66 lbs heaver than the BOP alum v-8. All of the
> BOP v-8 backers lost their money because they all had weights of 135 lbs
> or more.
Jim
Thank you! That settles it!
Dan Masters
Alcoa, Tennessee
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