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Old 04-11-2006, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by MalteseFalcon
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"
Sigh...in a phrase, hell no. Herb did not use a 301 block in the Silverbird. Short deck it may have been (like a R.A. V 303 or 366 block), but it was not a 301.

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