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Old 07-13-2004, 10:48 PM
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I want everyone to know that I agree the FE would not be my engine of choice for all out performance. We work on the small blocks and the 385 series as well. There is no doubt the 385 series engine is a better designed engine with its better heads and larger bore spacing block. With that said I will build anything my customers want, it just seems a lot of them want FE's in these cars. I also found that a lot of people were paying a lot of money for weak FE engines and seemed like a good market with a more mature buyer than a lot of the small block street and drag racing engines we were doing. I currently have about 15 after market cast iron and aluminum small block in stock, about 10 FE after market blocks and 5 460 cast iron racing blocks. So you can see we work on all of them and try to keep parts for them. Our small block strokers are quite popular with the Cobra guys as well. They all have there place, just depends on what the customer wants. Thanks Keith
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