Filled block on the street?

grimreaper said
In discussing the filled block question with a guy I have known for years, I just discovered that he short filled his Pontiac engine several years ago. He drives in on cruises and poker runs all of the time. He drove it to Denver, a 350 mile trip, to race at Bandimere with some of his buddies and back in the middle of summer. Claims there is no issue with cooling but he does run a modern GM oil cooler. This surprised me because the first I'd heard of running fill on the street was the two Mustangs previously mentioned.

More people than you think are still filling blocks

Rather than deal with internet bullies about it, we just fill them and don't say much.

Filling blocks is NOT rocket science. But one guy will fill and have issues totally unrelated and blame it on the filler.

For example (just to get you thinking about coolant, where the heat is in a cooling system etc) why do some circle track engines use an "open top" design? When you grasp that, it will start to make sense about where the heat is in a cylinder block.