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Originally Posted by Dangerous Doug
Incidentally, in the 400hp 302 article, in the fourth paragraph they state that all they did (other than the AFR 165's and the 1.7 rockers) was a "a quick bottle brush hone to clean up the cylinder walls and a set of fresh rings and bearings".
Perhaps I'm not the laughable lunatic all of you seemed to think I am.
DD
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I guess I'll start building my engines that way....that should save me a ton of money!
Trust me Doug, I write for quite a few magazines and they don't have the budget to throw copious amounts of money at machine work and parts. As a matter of fact, if they didn't get a lot of parts donated to them by the manufacturers, or the articles weren't written about a certain build that an outside builder was doing, they probably wouldn't get very far.
As for the cylinder heads, increased displacement is the key factor there. Those 185 heads are excellent choices for 347's, 351's, some 408's, etc. I've found that customers want to go overboard on heads, carbs, and cams. Bigger is not always better...