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Originally Posted by NKOTB
Hi fellas,
I didn't see any posts about this, but made a call last week to Holman Moody, based on a parking lot conversation I had last weekend at the Riverstone Parkway Cruise-in here northwest of Atlanta. I spoke to Mr Holman (one of the son's) last week, and they think they are about 6 months from getting their 1st castings right on a steel 427 block.... I think he said it would be somewhere in the $4500 price range... He also said a more robust model would follow in time with re-enforced pieces for turbo and SC applications...
Whaddya think of that? How about a csx4### with a full tilt HM block? Cool eh? "They's just goes together like peas an carrots", as Forrest would say
DD
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Possibly they're going to partner with Genesis, who's a relative unknown, lending their BRAND name to Genesis' product for a markup, to bring a Genesis block up to $4,500 (machined and actually ready to use).
Personally, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think there's enough choice today as far as FE blocks go.
All these guys developing blocks and (SOHC) heads, do they KNOW that in less than a year there's going to be a new SOHC FACTORY 427 ENGINE called (currently) the Hurricane (though likely to be called Boss when finally introduced)? And the new Boss engine'll have SOHC's, VVT, DOD and EFI, from the factory?
If you're putting non-original, non-vintage motors in, why not put in a modern engine? It's going to be basically a 21st century FE.
If anyone's going to develop a new block, develop one that'll allow someone to bolt on a new set of Boss heads with the related injection hardware since it'll have veeeerrrrrry close to the same bore spacing. With a little creative offset cylinder casting, we could have a bolt on situation.