Reply to "B. Goyaniuk's motor questions"

This is the last you will hear from me on the subject. I have no axes to grind.
Everyone has thier own experiences and thier own opinions. Everyone is intitled to thier own.
I will not accept another's opinion as a substitute for my own. It may seem shocking to hear but I don't have opinions on absolutely everything.
If I see a person hitting themself in the head with a hammer I just have the natural tendancy to say "I don't think that is too good for you".
Should I mind my own business? Sure, but that's the kind of person I am.
If Gary Hall and Denis Quella both tell me something that is 180 degrees opposite, all I said was I need to consider thier positions.
They could in fact both be right, or wrong, and they were both just trying to help.
By the same token if Elmer Fud tells me something contrary to everyone else and I ignore him and he is right, it is only a reflection on me, not Elmer. "Has anyone seen a wabbit?"
One is not likely to find a Premier Engine Builder on a chat line giving away thier secrets.
If anything they would, chuckle, about it.
There are some new approaches to building now yes, but one can not change the laws of physics, at least not in this place and time and not in this dimension.
With an engine, it isn't as much who built it as how it was built. It is likely that if you build cheap, all you get is cheap. Crap in, crap out.
I make no claims as to the fragilaty of either the FE or the 335's.
To me neither is particulary fragile at all. Where this 351-c block "witch hunt" came frome is beyond me. I suspect that it may simply have to do with the commoness of the current "stroker" engines.
Everyone who says, yea they will break, how many did you break, not just your "buddy"?
I have never blown up any engines although in retrospect I certainly seemed to have tried.
I have never found a 4 bolt D2AE-CA block for sale that had a crack through the webbing and into the cylinder bore as Jack Rousch had shown in his August 1976 article, "Progecting the 351c for the street". That's the only one I have ever seen. However, I do not doubt him.
I have never had an engine builder able to show me one in person.
I have seen broken or repaired XE blocks for sale, granted just a few.
I have seen dozens upon dozens of broken 427 side oiler blocks almost exclusivly injured in the area of #7 and #8.
The logical conclusion is that there may be an issue there.
In fact, I had one cracked just like the "351c failure" cracked severly through the #4 web and into the bore.
I didn't do it. I don't know how it happened.
My point on the D2AE-CA blocks is simply that people are throwing away a more then adequate blocks simply because they read it on a chat line, when in fact that may have little more signifigance then reading it on the walls of the mens room. "For a good time call..."
Newsweek always runs a cartoon with a person carrying a sign saying that the "world will end today". One of them eventually will be right, "dam I should have listened to him".