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Old 04-09-2006, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by stu
I would love to see what a highly tweaked 301 could do, it would never compete with anything else but would be unique.
Didn't Herb Adams use a 301 for the basis of the engine in the SilverBird? Bored and stroked to 6 litres, and with RAIV heads (modified the block so the water passages matched up), around 600 hp, as I recall. But that's pretty highly "tweaked"

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