[DeTomaso] Alu engine

Julian Kift julian_kift at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 17 11:59:18 EST 2014


IIRC the walls on Tod's aluminum block were going to be thick enough to go to something like a 4.15 bore, giving 440 CI.
I have a deposit on block #15 :)
Julian

> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:11:54 -0500
> From: spkorb at gmail.com
> To: detomaso at poca.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Alu engine
> 
> I bet you'd save 75lbs.  I think it would be really neat if someone
> built these with the 400M deck height and you could build a nice
> compact elephant motor with the same weight as a stock cast iron lump.
>   496 sounds like fun but you could have a conservative 427 build.
> 
> sean
> 
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Rob Dumoulin <rob at dumoulins.net> wrote:
> > Anybody care to speculate how much such a build would be from scratch and
> > how much weight it would save over a stock block and heads?
> >
> > Rob DuMoulin
> > 904.476.8744
> > rob at dumoulins.net
> > www.kbsi.co
> > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-dumoulin/0/1b6/58
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:06 AM, gudmund frøland <gudmundfroiland at yahoo.no>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Just came across some interesting engine build.
> >>
> >> http://www.mustangandfords.com/techarticles/engine/1312_all_aluminum_351_cleveland_engine_build_alloy_awesomeness/
> >>
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