Ummm this can’t be good

Garrett Ellison said

That’s a well proven fact! Look how many of things swilled 98% nitro (sometimes mixed with hydrazine!) through an 8-71 and went multiple passes without failures. There’s a guy from the “gator country” with a boat load of National titles (and many others!) with the factory iron blocks of that era…

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Factory nickel iron blocks. According to motor trend some of the nitro cars were making north of 1500 hp on the stock forged cranks and rods.

Depending on just how deep I go into this, I might have the crank cut for big block Chevy pins and rods basically creating a 364 stroker with a corresponding bore