Main cap girdles re-discussed

So during my morning shower I thought about this a little more. Some of you guys act like chevies and fords have zero issues. Well if you would get to the tracks more often you would found out exactly how it is. I’m not talking about a few of our 11 second Mopars that use hose clamps on their transmission lines still and are know to cause a three hours cleanup twice a year but I’m talking 4-5 and 6 second 1/8 mile cars. And at keystone we have a lot of them. I honestly can’t think of one major engine failure last year but boy my Chevy friends sure put on a show. They broke and broke often and I’m not talking Speedmaster and Edelbrock parts they broke good parts, expensive parts. It’s gotten to a point where APD a carb company stepped up and started offering rocker arms became they can’t last the season with the expensive ones out there. So get off the couch and open your damn eyes, please.

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said that the GM **** isn’t any better than the Chrysler stuff and when you build like for like engines the cost of the Chrysler is marginally higher.

If you want to compare block pricing the Ritter block is within a few hundred bucks of the equivalent Dart block.

In all my years of engine building there has never, ever been a block of any brand for any manufacturer that doesn’t need a ton of machine work.

Somehow the Chrysler guys think the Chevy guys order a block and it drops out of the sky like pink mashed potato’s all machined up and ready to go.

Nothing could be further from the truth.