[DeTomaso] New Windsor vs All aluminum new 5.4 modular? - Life after 3 decades with a Cleveland
mark skwarek
ehpantera at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 18 19:59:58 EDT 2010
Sort of reminds me of the Vega Al block. Another better idea.
Mark
--- On Sun, 4/18/10, JDeRyke at aol.com <JDeRyke at aol.com> wrote:
From: JDeRyke at aol.com <JDeRyke at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] New Windsor vs All aluminum new 5.4 modular? - Life after 3 decades with a Cleveland
To: teampantera at yahoo.com, detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 7:28 PM
In a message dated 4/18/10 3:26:57 PM, teampantera at yahoo.com writes:
> This particular 5.4 block that I mentioned is a Shelby aluminum block
> using a Ford patented process called PTWA or Plasma Transfer Wire
> Arc.....where a high energy metal--spraying technique deposits a 1010 alloy steel
> liner in the aluminum cylinders that is only 150 mics thick. I'm sure Shelby
> isn't building the blocks but I'll call Gary Patterson (Manager at Shelby)
> on Monday to see what he says.
>
OK- that's Fords unreleased new block for the Shelby 500, due out soon. The
spray liners save 8 lbs according to the news flash last month. Maybe they
made further changes.... Cheers- J Deryke
_______________________________________________
Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA
Archive Search Engine Now Available at http://www.realbig.com/detomaso/
DeTomaso mailing list
DeTomaso at list.realbig.com
http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso
More information about the DeTomaso
mailing list