[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
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