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| Author: | Badvert65 [ Wed Mar 09, 2016 4:11 pm ] |
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Ok, for anyone keeping track of such things... I sent my 79 block to the machine shop. Clean, bare, with main caps and bolts weighed in at 147 lbs. Machine shop hot tanked it, new cam bearings, freeze plugs, and .070 shaved from the deck. It weighed in at 136 lbs. Hard to believe an 11 pound difference, but I'll take all I can get. |
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| Author: | Dart270 [ Thu Mar 10, 2016 6:17 am ] |
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Interesting, but I would question their scale... 11lbs loss by cleaning and a little machining? 80s blocks I have weighed are in the 140-145 lb range. 60s blocks are 160-170. Lou |
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| Author: | Badvert65 [ Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:36 am ] |
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I have a digital medical scale. It is usually pretty accurate. I will have to reweigh it. See what numbers I get. 11 lbs seems like an awful lot. |
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| Author: | slantzilla [ Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:14 am ] |
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Did it have lots of crud in the water jacket? |
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| Author: | Badvert65 [ Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:54 am ] |
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That I couldn't say. It was a 100,000 mile engine from my Volare Wagon. I don't really care much how much it weighs, I just like to keep track of things on the race car. |
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| Author: | Badvert65 [ Sat Mar 26, 2016 7:47 pm ] |
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Update on the block weight. I reweighed the block more carefully this time and I got 145 lbs, much more realistic than the 136 lbs I got before. Clean, machined, bare block with main caps and bolts, 145lbs. (Helps to have good batteries in these scale thingies.) |
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| Author: | Dart270 [ Sun Mar 27, 2016 4:47 am ] |
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Great. Thanks for the update! I had thought the 70s cast crank blocks were heavier, but I guess not. Lou |
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| Author: | JohnnyDees [ Fri Apr 22, 2016 3:14 pm ] |
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Is there any info on the weight of blocks and what years the weight changed? |
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