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Old 01-06-2015, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
Now, just imagine if you went to Brent L. and said "I want an FE with 14.1 compression ratio and a cam that has a net overall lift of .500, and I plan on running it on street gas." I don't know if you could even get him to do it. In theory, if someone tried to build a duplicate of an original engine, nowadays, that's what they'd be doing.
Ah the memories!...
13:1 compression, TRW pistons, SFT cams, Cherry Bombs, Purple Hornies and 40 cents a gallon for 110 octane! Now there I go again dating myself!
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