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bvar22

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9. Not to be too picky, but...

Fri Feb 22, 2013, 06:30 PM

Feb 2013

...those were small block heads.
I guess it is different today than when I "ran",
and I guess you can bore out a small block, and stroke it to 427,
but 427CID means RAT MOTOR BIG BLOCK to me.

The car seems pretty fast, but somebody who builds an 8000RPM motor
without a Blow Proof Bell Housing is an idiot with a death wish
....and then he proves it in the video.
In at least one clip, it appears that the driver is holding the camera
at speeds over 130.

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