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Tell your friend to buy better quality pistons.
440 source making new 440 blocks…
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Having a background in precision machining I can tell you I measure everything several times and cut once. You can never assume what you're buying.
I am going to call on Monday about buying a block.
Tom
I am going to call on Monday about buying a block.
Tom
They are one of the best brands out there. Kim
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Two atmospheres are better than one
Apparently not if they’re not all the same size.
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Ok u win. Everything is always in tolerance by your standards. Just not by mine and almost all others on this site. Kim
Well they just might as well as long blocks. That would help a lot of do it yourselfers out. Kim
They might as well, from my prospective as a long time parts seller I very rarely sell individual components for a big block, and more often sell complete balanced rotating assemblies.
Most of the time those assemblies are going to engine builders rather than the customers address, so offering built short blocks, long blocks, and complete engines would probably
increase the overall sales of big blocks in the worldwide market. Sadly, I sell more big block assemblies to customers outside the US than in the US. The stroked small block is where the
US market has been for years. Hopefully this new, reasonably priced block might turn the market around. I am predicting a lot of 572" buildings in the future.
Tom
At 440 source?
A BIG short block is great..........except then I need bigger heads and a better intake.
How much are they?
The last time I talked to Kent about a year ago it was right at 4k to the door.
Which is within 500-600 bucks on an equal SBC block.
33IMP
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Uh, It's FOUR FORTY source, not 340 source. Talk to Dart, don't hold your breath.
33IMP
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For three grand? Maybe..... if you want a 5.3 LS.
You want an aluminum bbm block? Easy. Put up nine grand or so.....
33IMP
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They are available.
They are called "chevy" and "ford".
440 source started in the guys garage. They aren't Dart, AFR, or even Blueprint.
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Two atmospheres are better than one
Kim, you didn’t say in tolerance. You said they didn’t fit. Now, with skirt clearance in normal ranges for a typical hot street/race engine the pistons would have to be ridiculously over or undersized not to “fit” or the machinist was a crack head and really jacked stuff up. I’ve never seen pistons that far off.
Maybe they would like to become a Dart or Blueprint.
My brother lives in Reno, a hop skip and a jump from Brandon's place, we'll have a block or two very shortly after they come out.
We have an Indy top end we need to put to use, he's going big block in his son's Duster project.
We have an Indy top end we need to put to use, he's going big block in his son's Duster project.
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I don't know why they went cast iron. 440 core blocks are still under $1K. Typically well under $1k.
Sure this is a stronger block for racing. But serious racers will step up to more serious blocks.
I would think aluminum block or little more stock looking hemi block would be something more interesting to people.
Would have been nice to have the oil pump area on this new block look more stock like to have that Stealth look. Like their heads that sell well.
Sure this is a stronger block for racing. But serious racers will step up to more serious blocks.
I would think aluminum block or little more stock looking hemi block would be something more interesting to people.
Would have been nice to have the oil pump area on this new block look more stock like to have that Stealth look. Like their heads that sell well.
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