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Re: 67 thin flanged blocks

To: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: 67 thin flanged blocks
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:26:43 -0400
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
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Ron Soave wrote:

> --- "Robert E. Shlafer" <pilotrob@webtv.net> wrote:
> 
>>And some of us get stuck with a '67 thin
>>wall block...which ain't the best for "tunin'".
> 
> 
> Ya know, no one I know has ever failed one of these
> blocks.  I chalk that up to urban (Vizard) legend. 


Count me in on the thin block drivers too.
The A40 not a rocket and my blue Sprite (1/2 a rocket) run thin wall 
12cc engines. They are also the only engines with the EN40 cranks as 
original. Even my spare goldseal factory engine is a thin wall.
That has under 1000 miles on it though.


-- 
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ




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