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Old 05-15-2020, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
Yes. The small block chevy has decades of winning. Although on the surface, it may not look that impressive, it works, works well. Ford had to copy Chevy to make a competitive engine. They just copied the Big Block Chevy design, with the canted valves, enlarged it a little, and whala 385 series. They downsized it a little and whala 335 series.

Pontiac took FE 427 Tunnel Port heads and put them on their V8, called Ram Air V engines, and it couldn't out perform the SBC.

Smokey Yunick experimented with multiple prototype SBC head designs, even canted valve heads, and they didn't offer much of an advantage over the standard SBC heads at that time. So, nothing was changed.
Yeah I’ve heard all that junk before. None of it is true.
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