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Old 06-28-2016, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Dimis View Post
Really? Pretty much ever Le Mans run engine was Alu, and IIRC the occasional may have even been a Magnesium block

I don't mind me a seasoned IRON block, but if ALU was that bad surely the I wouldn't be able to quote the expert that said - "they make Coyote's & LS7s out of Aluminium don't they?"
Naah, we're talking old farts discussing FE's only. No fancy Le Mans stuff. In fact, nothing fancy at all. Just old crap. Now, they also preferred a nice iron block that had forty or fifty years worth of heat cycles, too.
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