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From: shelby@rtech.ARPA (Shelby Thornton)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: big block vs 4-bangers
Message-ID: <220@rtech.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 20:04:50 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 20:04:50 1985
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> .....You could buy an '84
> Corvette for say, $24,000, buy a ZL-1 aluminum motor for it for
> another $10,000 (including all mods to yield 800+ HP non turbo
> charged, blown, or injected), drop the motor in the Vette, and
> you would have a car that would blow away those "high price spread"
> cars.


There are stupid comments and then there are stupid comments.  Jeff, you
sound like one of those guys I race a Baylands Raceway each weekend.  You
think you can put mega horse power in a stock car and turn nines!  Drop
a ZL-1 into an '84 vette and if the transmission doesn't the blow up,
the frame (or lack of) will be twisted like a pretzel.

I much prefer big-block to any 4-banger, but please discuss it coherently.
I build and drive ten second cars and it takes alot more than horsepower
to do it.


					Shelby Thornton
					Relational Technology