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Hi;
Sounds like yet another
guy who can't figure out that he doesn't need to wreck a perfectly
good car to get a Hemi motor. I would bet that of all of these engines pulled
for a hypothetical project 95% are sitting up on end in a garage or shed slowly
rusting themselves solid. It never seems to cross their mind that there are
hundreds of such disused engines all over North America that they could
probably find if they would take the time to look. This isn't even the
331 block that people want, and once you take the price of speed parts and
machining into account it just doesn't make sense to build one up let alone pull
one for a non existent project.
The funniest part is that
he would be just as far ahead by taking up Dick on his offer of a Packard
V8 . I just ran across A guy on Ebay, about a week or two ago, that
had a 1954 331 up for auction, built to the hilt. All told he had about $10,000
in parts and machining, never mind mechanic's labour, for a little more then
half that much you could build up a 440 or a 400 that would run circles around
it. You could rebuild either motor for less but the bang for the buck is
definitely with the big blocks even as stock and the Hemi tricked
out.
Best Regards
Arran Foster
1954 Imperial Newport
Needing A Left side Tailght bezel and other trim
parts.
From: David
Whitney
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