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Originally Posted by RodKnock
JMHO, and I know many will disagree, but I would prefer the modern all-aluminum block engine over the vintage sideoiler. In my pea brain, I would be thinking "sell iron, buy aluminum."
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is this the engine you are talking about? How about reliability? Heat? Huge power...
Shelby aluminum block [606 horsepower/605 ft.lbs. torque; idles at 900 rpm]; assembled and fine-tuned by Keith Craft, Inc. with painstaking attention to detail and employing only the finest componentry]. Among the full complement of premium parts and components under the hood:
billet aluminum engine mounts
Scat 4.250 crankshaft & H-beam rods
custom-grind hydraulic roller camshaft
KCR Edelbrock CNC cylinder heads
T&D shaft-mount roller rockers
Shelby front cover
Shelby water pump & Shelby intake
black Shelby valve covers
powder-coated oval air cleaner
MSD distributor/ignition system (including manual timing accessible from your driver's seat)
Kirkham aluminum pulleys
complete Kirkham
oil cooler system, billet coolant tank
polished radiator hoses
that's the one who is in Ontario, Canada... I know that you never have too much power, but I'd rather have a painless engine.