[DeTomaso] 351C Engine Weight Savings

[Will Kooiman]

A bare stock block isn¹t heavy.

I weighed mine.  I believe it was something like 162 lbs.

That¹s obviously more than an aluminum block, but I doubt you¹d notice it
with the seat-of-the-pants dyno.

On 9/20/16, 9:14 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of JFFR"
<detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of pantera at vtc.net>
wrote:

>I believe that a bare 9.2 deck Fontana aluminum block weighs 116 pounds
>according to Jack Deryke. I didn't take the time to weigh mine before
>the engine was built, but a bare Fontana block is very light.
>
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