Thread: Cobra 427 vs. Griffith 400
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Old 10-19-2021, 05:09 AM
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I suspect that the first 260 cid cars had blueprinted engines (and maybe even tweaked a little), anticipating that they would be the subject of magazine road tests. Once the production cars were tested, performance fell off quite a bit.
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