cleaning up the slant six head

Back when Jack Clifford was still alive and I was just getting into Slants, my thought was the 170 over the 225 and make it a high RPM, NA engine. Jack sat me down and said "Lets talk". Just as Bill and others have said,Jack went on to explain the limits of the head and it would be a better Idea to build the 225 and think about "TORQUE" more than RPM. We all know that torque is what "moves" a object and when more torque is applied the object will move sooner,faster. And again we were talking about no power adders,just what the engine would produce on it's own.
This is just a thought coming up and has nothing to do with Slants,Please bare with me !

In reading all of this, and the compairson to the Z/28 302, I'll reflect on a story about a guy and his 302.Being a teen when the 69 Camaro was "new" and "THE" car to have I was working at a gas station(making $1 a hour) that was the local hang out of all the gear heads around the valley.Dave showed up with a shiney orange Z/28 4 speed 4.10 gears and of course the first thing was get it on the rack install the Hooker Headers and the Cragar SS wheels. The station was at the corner of a new 4 lane highway that was now the local street racers dragstrip.Well some of the other guys had 396 Camaros. As hard as Dave could he would wind up that little small block and get the big blocks out of the hole,1st gear, 2nd gear and then the "torque" of the big block would just drive around him and take the finish line.
Bill, I gotta say "Thanks for the memories" of some of the best times I had growing up. Now back to the Slants.............:wav: