Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!shelby 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 Article-I.D.: rtech.220 Posted: Fri Mar 8 20:04:50 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 07:18:32 EST References: <281@oblio.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Berkeley CA Lines: 22 > .....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