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Old 02-04-2010, 04:12 PM   #1
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"Giddy up Giddy up, etc..."



Not mine, although I wish it was (with the car it goes in)

See if you can ID it.
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Old 02-04-2010, 04:40 PM   #2
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Well, it's a W block. 427 for a Z11 car?
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Old 02-04-2010, 04:45 PM   #3
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W block it is. World's new Merlin 409.
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Old 02-05-2010, 08:15 AM   #4
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I was gonna say 348-409 w-block, you can tell by the bores.
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Old 02-05-2010, 08:26 AM   #5
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I was gonna say 348-409 w-block, you can tell by the bores.
Yep!

I think it's really cool. Hard to believe you could get a tripower 409/350... back in 1961.
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Old 02-05-2010, 08:27 AM   #6
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409s are bad ass. and very cool looking. the new edelbrock heads for them seem to be getting good reviews.
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The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. Or so I have read.

Feather-light suspension, Konis just couldn't hold. I'm so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors.

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Old 02-05-2010, 09:50 AM   #7
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409s are bad ass. and very cool looking. the new edelbrock heads for them seem to be getting good reviews.
Really? Besides for intake manifolds they cant make crap. Even there they still suck.
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Old 02-05-2010, 09:52 AM   #8
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The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. Or so I have read.

Feather-light suspension, Konis just couldn't hold. I'm so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors.

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Old 02-05-2010, 09:57 AM   #9
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Really? Besides for intake manifolds they cant make crap. Even there they still suck.
Hmm. Their intakes must be good, otherwise why would professional products rip off their entire design?
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Old 02-05-2010, 10:08 AM   #10
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is that a 5 inch bore on the right?
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Old 02-05-2010, 10:21 AM   #11
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is that a 5 inch bore on the right?
Dunno. But I heard you can bore the crap out of these blocks.
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Really? Besides for intake manifolds they cant make crap. Even there they still suck.
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Old 02-05-2010, 11:10 AM   #13
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Really? Besides for intake manifolds they cant make crap. Even there they still suck.
They make pretty good Pontiac heads. Not great but with some work they work well.
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Old 02-05-2010, 12:08 PM   #14
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See if you can ID it.
Nice! I read about these a few months ago. Pretty cool how they did it. I think they worked with someone that had a lot of experience building them in the past? IIRC the heads had a shim under them for development and was a little strange looking in the article.

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is that a 5 inch bore on the right?
It is just a optical illusion, it is basically just a BBC with the deck cut on an angle. There is more to the block design but thats what it started life as originally. The heads and pistons look like freaks of nature too

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