The "Throw Away 318"

With what we are forced to live with these days? We may be in an age of High tech in some ways but in others, we have take several steps backwards. We started out with singles, then twins and eventually 4's and the L6's to advance to V8 and there were bold engineers making L8's V12's and all sorts of other designs of infernal combustion plants. Just look for Arden Hemi conversions for FHV8 Fords. Then Arias Hemi conversions for BBC's. Personally I love a big engine, the bigger the better. Then when you can sqquezze 400+ from a small block and read numbers from a dyno that make a muscle era BB hang its head in shame, well that just gives me a woody. Since engine engineers started making parts to build inches and still stay under 540 lbs of iron, that just makes all the sense in the world because weight has always been a factor. I admit a decked out BB of any brand is tough to not look at and say what a beast or drool over. I wish someone had come out with a real head turning FAT valve covered relocated distributor arrangement for the famous LA...So what's left in that department return to the poly headed block. Those engines didn't have much for port size but it didn't seem to make a lot of difference as they still performed pretty good. At least well enough to race in high level ranks of the time and work with 8 bbls. These days if anyone built a poly and installed it in a later model such as an A or any other model, it would be left up to the old guys to teach kids about how it was done when it was first being done. Getting beat down by a FAT block with over 500 inches is not that bad but being walked on by a SB with over 400 when you're the guy with the FAT block is.