Posted by Todd (IP: 216.152.14.111) on December 18, 1999 at 09:16:42:
In Reply to: 302 V8 posted by Bill Hughes on December 17, 1999 at 23:18:41:
There is a Mexican block that is really beefy as far as the casting is concerned, but I have been drag racing a 74 Mav for last 5 years and use 70's era blocks with no problems. Rickyracer is right, deck height is different on some blocks, this will affect compression ratio. The money spent to port and machine
ford heads for screw in studs and guide plates, will just about equal the cost of a set of good aftermarket heads. Was running a set of reworked 302 heads at first on a 1000ft strip, car ran 10:50's, bolted on a set of Edelbrock performer rpm's and car ran 9:49 out of the box with no other mods. This is without using nitrous. Ford small blocks are tuff little engines all the way around.