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Originally Posted by Jeff Teuton
I was quietly drinking beer, and I get drug into this mess. I will be in E this year. I managed to get myself 'upped' a class. Don't know how I did that. I don't know about the FE or FD's or anything like that. If RJ and Blair are involved, then it's open range law. On the cranks, it just makes more available especially for some of the older cars. It's just gotta look like a stock crank and can't have the whole counterweight gone, and no knife edge. Did I miss something here. The good thing RJ and I have going, is by the time we are in the bottom of the ladder, we will be racing wheel chairs in a home.
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Hey Jeff, when you and RJ get into wheelchairs, I'll race you for some of that beer!
Larry, the "strokes of the pen" you refer to were done based on info about combos and hood heights that did not exist from the OEM. There is no disputing that FE's never came with 2.2 rods, but they were accepted as replacements, and alot of water has run under that bridge since then. If there was any advantage, it has been absorbed by now in the AHFS, much like any changes are that affect performance. Aluminium heads and permitted grinding of combustion chambers helped BB Chevys alot more than it did my junk, but I lived with it, and just tried to make my stuff better somewhere else to level up with a change that affected me negatively in comparison to a closed chamber BBC.
You will see lots of Ford blocks, and 50 year-old iron heads, and OEM manifolds on many FE Stockers. Blocks, heads, and manifolds make alot more difference than different bearings with MORE surface area. Everyone gets a perk here and there.............maybe yours is next............if it makes your Mopar a rocket, you will either move up a class like Mr. Jeff, or you will outrun our FE junk until we get smarter!
I usually don't post on here..........don't have much time, but I had to chime in on this one. Happy Thanksgiving to all. I hope I get to see you guys at the races some next year. I'm not much of a beer drinker, but I would drink at least one with Jeff Tueton just because he is an asset to class racing and a fine feller.