[DeTomaso] 408 Stroker Life Expectancy

Tue Jun 26 23:26:44 EDT 2007

Both ;-]>

Peter Kovacs <peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net> wrote:          
  MD,

  I am looking for a little clarification here. When you stated "Wotz the point of having all that juice and not doing anything with it?", were you refering to the Pantera or the Trophy wife??

  Peter Kovacs
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  ----- Original Message ----
From: Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>
To: Art Stephens <artstephens at charter.net>; B. Seib <oldwheel at mts.net>; Donny Williams <Donnylee at ccwebster.net>; JDeRyke at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:56:16 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 408 Stroker Life Expectancy

  Art,

  I love you man but I also know you and if you spend the money needed for one of these 'yet-to-be-produced aluminum blocks I can guarantee you that knowing you that you will freak out at the final completed cost and then you will NEVER RACE and what fun will that be?

  I'd like to see these NEW iron and aluminum Cleveland blocks built too but just remember they still need to be machined before they can be built!!! 

  You will end up with an expensive show pantera with an engine that is 3 times what you thought it was going to be and  then YOU will get paranoid about breaking it because you-have-so-much-money-invested and then you or 95% of this List will then be afraid to ever drive it HARD. 

  I can think of a several Pantera owners with aluminum blocks (flame suit on!) and huge dollars invested and NONE (maybe one) of the owners even races.....one of them with a twin turbo charged Pantera showed up at a TPOC dyno day a couple years ago and when I told him I was looking forward to him running his Pantera on the chassis dyno said, 

  "ohhh, I am not running my Pantera on the dyno...I have too much money invested to break it"......a week earlier he was telling everyone that would listen about his 1,100 HP Pantera.
  I'm sorry I don't get it... Wotz the point of having all that juice and not doing anything with it?
  I then looked at his Pantera and then looked at his trophy wife and I thought.........okay never mind.

  Wots your budget slacker? ;-]>

  md

Art Stephens <artstephens at charter.net> wrote:
  Yeah, I sure would like to get one of those aluminum Cleveland blocks 
someday!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. Seib" 
To: "Donny Williams" ; ; 
; 
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 408 Stroker Life Expectancy

> Until that new strong pure Cleve block begins it's production run!
>> http://www.network54.com/Forum/119419/thread/1174843414/Attention.
>
> Donny Williams wrote:
> Yea I think the Windsor is a better candidate for this kind of cubes. 
> Lots
> more parts available, lots of strokes,and they are reliable.
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