05-28-2018, 05:59 AM
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Senile Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
Posts: 4,566
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Originally Posted by 1795
Go with what you can afford and makes you happy. Good 289 blocks are getting harder to find while 302's are much more plentiful. Slap a 289 sticker on the air cleaner and nobody will know the difference.
Jim
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What Jim said. You can "dress" a 302 to replicate a 289 (dimensionally the same) so that most people can't tell without looking at casting numbers. Plus you can run a roller cam do away with valve adjustments (unless you WANT to) as well as have easy, non-stressed horsepower. My slab has a 302 and I have had numerous people at shows comment about "so that's what a real 289 looks like!"
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