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Old 03-15-2022, 09:28 AM   #560
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Originally Posted by Larry Hill View Post
With me weighing 300+ the iron block would have to make a lot more power for me to consider it. If it not on the list I can’t use it. I try to walk on the knife edge on the rules, but I always have a set of gaskets and I am fearless going to the barn. Been doing this 30 some years and have been good every time, but all it takes is one third of the thickness of a hair (.001”) on the wrong side of a number and I will be disqualified.

Larry,
If your weight and the car's weight does not change then all the iron block has to do is make enough HP to offset the difference in the weight between the 2 blocks. I do not know what the difference will be for those blocks. I do know that many years ago on a difference style engine / block making about 750 HP the iron block made about 15 more HP.

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