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Originally Posted by john marcella
Tom,
You know as well as anyone that building race motors is about manipulating every part and component of the engine to just shy of its yield point. It will always be this way.
And those are the people that will be fast.
You go 4.800 BS and there will be a 4.600 bore in it.
If you want bigger bore spacing you can buy that, and it comes with way better parts for making power as a bonus. BUT IT WILL NEVER BE A PONTIAC. JMO
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While I agree with Tom if you are going to go after the big ci motors we need more bore.
I tend to agree with you John it changes everything. IMO it would be better to make revisions to deck height(our 301 deck height and maybe a deck between standard and the 301) and maybe main/rod bearing size and concentrate our efforts on competing with the big inch LS motors.
Most of us I think, fit the "sportsman" category and when you really look at things the LS seems to be on top in that category. I think we would do well competing there with the right changes and could still retain our "Pontiac" heritage. Classic inline heads, RA5 configuration. Warp6 or the upcoming CV2 configuration(both of which really amount to revised RA5 heads) or a revisit/redisgn of the old M/T hemi heads for those that want to go a bit beyond the traditional head configuration would be ok to me.
I kind of like the potential of a 301 deck height in a 400 to 450 ci configuration.