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04-19-2021, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by blykins

The 390 wouldn't have been lighter weight. All FE blocks are the same. If anything, the 427 is lighter because the bores are larger.

I think a lot of the stuff you read is speculation or opinion.

Perhaps Legate was referring to the aluminum 390 that Ken Miles ran in CSX2196 at Nassau in 1964. It would certainly have been lighter than the iron block FEs. But I don't know if that's what the weight distribution calculations were based on - just speculating here.

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