Reply to "B. Goyaniuk's motor questions"

Bohdan,

The 9.5" deck height alloy Dart block is about 77 pounds lighter than the 351C iron block and can sustain much more abuse. It can take crankshafts up to 4.25" stroke. It comes in either 4.00 bore or 4.125 bore. With a 0.030" overbore, bringing the max bore & stroke to 4.155" x 4.25", that brings you to about 460 cubic inches! Even with that much overbore, the cylinders will have a UNIFORM thickness of about 0.070". The cleveland cylinder walls are never uniform in thickness. It is without a doubt a very good piece of equipment. Either the Dart iron block or the alloy block would be a wise investment for somebody who is going to shoot for very big horsepower numbers or somebody who plans to hammer his engine hard in competition.

Either as a Clevor or pure Windsor, this is a much more costly engine to build, the block is very expensive, none of your cleveland parts will interchange, and you will need conversion pieces to adapt the block into your Pantera chassis.

Here is a link to the Dart website page for this block:

http://www.dartheads.com/fordaluminum.aspx

Is saving 77 pounds worth $4000 USD? Such an expense is not justified by the level of build up you are proposing or the type of use you are planning.

A 450 bhp motor does not require this block. Period.

SJ Performance of Australia is supposed to release their alloy Cleveland block this winter.

your friend on the DTBB, George