318 combo help

LJ67barracuda340 said

I'd like to address the HARD BLOCK issue. Maybe someone can chime in if I'm wrong on this. I thought "hard block" was when they filled the water jackets with basically cement to give a drag race engine's cylinders more strength. If that's the case I've never heard of one living on the street with no water around the cylinders. I think I read this in How to hot rod a mopar small block. I'm going to try and dig it out and check.

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You are right about the hard block. This motor is hard blocked tall fill half off. That's the part that gives me hope that I can run this on the street.

I'm going to run a 26 inch aluminum dual 1 inch tube radiator with the ford contour electric fans. The fans are said to flow 3400 cfm so it is my hope I can cool the engine enough for it to be happy on the street. If not I might have to build a fun cheap drag car.

Thank you for you input and if you have more information please share.