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Old 05-24-2018, 01:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Large Arbor View Post
Glen,

My take is that once he went with the aluminum block, the originality went out the window. I have an Shelby aluminum block at 468 CID and about 520 HP and torque. With the engine I have, I find I can spin tires pretty easily. I also have the mild compression at 10:1 and a mild hydraulic cam and it runs great on pump gas. I cannot speak for others, but the setup works well. No one would know the true CID without looking at the build sheets so why not?

Phil
Phil, I understand what you're saying about originality having left the building and then it's open-slather on displacement after that....but my thinking is that surely a Cobra is a sportscar, so why fit a massive (in CID terms), super-torquey engine that spins the tyres easily?

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Glen
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