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Old 09-01-2009, 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
FWIW, my iron block FE is within 50 lbs. of a stock Ford small block. That's from light internals, aluminum flywheel, manifold, water pump, etc. I believe an aluminum block shaves about a hundred pounds more.
FWIW, since it doesn't answer Greg's question, but a Pond block shaves about 125 lbs from a typical FE iron block and a Shelby block shaves about 100 lbs.
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