Re: your opinion on 400 smallblock?

Posted by Mark - IN. on June 20, 2007 at 20:00:51 from (64.12.116.14):

In Reply to: Re: your opinion on 400 smallblock? posted by Allan In NE on June 20, 2007 at 17:59:47:

I don't know Allan. I've always been partial to that 427. Stroke at 3.76 and stock bore at 4.25 was a pretty good combo. Balancing and worked over could turn low 8 grands long before they came out with the trick speed stuff they have today. I know, them small blocks could get the R's up faster and higher, but once it started to hit its power band, it more than made up for it at the end of the 1/4 mile. Wasn't it '62 or '63 that Junior Johnson was tearing up nascar tracks with one before Chevy released the first big block into production as the '65 396? Nascar told Junior and Chevy to put it away since wasn't a production motor...and the 406 Fords and 413 Dodges couldn't keep up with that thing?

I remember a guy back in the mid-70's named Kevin Rotti showed up in Denver with the smallest big block I'd ever seen. Huge bore, almost no stroke. Was in the 360+ or 370+ inch range. To look at it, and not confuse it with the truck block, which it wasn't, it looked like any other rat. There's no air to breath in Denver, so gotta run smaller motors, but that was a small big block. Seemed almost laughable. Everyone laughed. By Sunday afternoon we'd stopped laughing. I'm thinking that he was hitting the mid to high 9 grands with that thing, and he took the Pro-Stock trophy home for the Mile High Nationals that year.

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