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Originally Posted by patrickt
Barry is on record as prefering iron blocks. I stand with him. 
See: Iron v. Aluminum |
Though Barry admits he's in the minority, when it comes to using iron blocks. I cannot argue with him, since he's a noted FE expert of high regard and I'm a dummy, but I would say that the modern aluminum blocks, using the CSX block for example, have been redesigned and have added material in all the right places. If I remember correctly, the CSX block is 20-25 lbs heavier than the Pond block.
There are a lot guys out there running "all aluminum" engines for many, many miles now, including Rokndad, who's probably put on nearly 10,000 miles on his CSX4758.
While there certainly can be exceptions, I'm a firm believer in modern is better, otherwise we all still could be using those brick/suitcase type cell phones of the late 1980's.