Reply to "New Heavy Duty 351C Block, by Tod Buttermore"

I must be a really spoiled old timer. Maybe just plane lucky.
I was looking to reduce compression on my Clevelands and FE's.
I never had to aligh bore, or deck any of them.

$2900 plus the shipping and another $1200 to $1500 is a lot for an engine that doesn't need a full race prep.

What happens on the first rebore with new pistons and a new pin height? You have to do it all again?

It doesn't make sense to spend that kind of money on the block. What you are tring to do is equalize the compression stokes on each cylinder.

A production block won't even care about that until 8000rpm.

Does this block have more in it then 8000rpm?
You are into titanium everything with that you know?

That's the territory where the NASCAR "hot shots" put a Hank the Crank recip assembly in the LeManns Pantera and it blew up because the welds couldn't hold the Mallory metal in the crank at that rpms.

I wouldn't trust anyone with a NASCAR background. They can't even make a bobsled go fast without blowing up.