[acschlary]

acschlary,

GREAT QUESTION! I had the same one myself. So, I started looking.

There is no side skirt on a Chev 350 and Jeff Gordon runs one at 9000 rpms for 500 miles every Sunday. Look at the Dart picture I posted...no skirt. F1 engines don't have a skirt. Most blocks don't have a skirt--very, very few have skirts. After looking at the real world and what was going on in the real world, I decided skirts were more effective in marketing engine blocks (and on women) than they were in going fast.

David thanks for the quick response. I understand the new splayed cap design are better than (or at least as good as) the cross bolts; however some of us are looking for the period correct look. Absent the skirts I don;t see this happening. Then again, perhaps you never intended your design to replicate the FE totaly.

Thanks again,
acshlary