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Originally Posted by CobraEd
This was a pretty heated discussion with a lot of it pointed between Brent and me. After all is said and done it was not a subject that is normally discussed even among car guys and can be tough to present and tough to grasp. Having said that, I still hold to my compliments to Brent that I posted a few pages back. He has proven himself over and over on this forum to be not only a top notch engine builder, but also a good man of character and integrity. I still have very high respect for him in spite of the verbal dueling.
And a good time was had by all. 
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No hard feelings here Ed. Shows character to say what you just said and I appreciate it.
Honestly, I think we were all in agreement, and just had trouble with semantics.
Madmaxx's comment was:
"As far as FE and stroked small block, the small block will rev much much quicker..."
The way I'm understanding that is that it doesn't matter which small block it is, or which big block it is, the small block will always rev much, much quicker. In that case, the 351W in my grandma's '74 LTD would be zippier than John Force's funny car engine.
I think what he should have said was, "In the cars that I've driven, the small block engines revved quicker." And most likely that would have been a true case, because people tend to put 40-45 lb flywheels on the FE's, put numerically low rearend gears in them, build them with heavy cast pistons, let the total timing come in really late, etc.
Al, one last point, eschaider said, "One thing however is for certain, all things being equal, two identical engines, one of which has a lighter rotating assembly, the engine with the lighter rotating assembly will always out accelerate the engine with the heavier rotating assembly — it is inescapable." However, it's entirely possible that the FE could have a lighter rotating assembly....
No hard feelings to you either.
Y'all have a good night. I'm gonna chill with the fam.