30 Jul 97 12:54, Puleeeeze Brer Bill Clark, Dooooon't trow 396 in dat der 
Briar Patch!
 BC> On (28 Jul 97) Roy Witt wrote to Tom Collins...
 BC>
 RW>> Not likly.  283's were hard pressed to make it to a 4" bore.
 RW>> That'd be an 1/8" to bore out.  You'd need a perfectly cast block.
 RW>> I remember a lot of them going to 292, but hardly any 301's from
 RW>> 283's.  Some, but not many, and those weren't streetable due to the
 RW>> heat warping the thin cylinder walls.
 BC>
 BC> I remember a bunch of 283s punched to 301 running around the streets
 BC> of southern Ohio in the late '50s. In fact I had one that made it's
 BC> way through 2 different street rods before I became bored with
 BC> Chevys, and went to Olds for the sake of something different.
As did we in Illinois.  But not many of them lived very long without adaquate 
cooling.  Once the walls warped, all kinds of stuff started to happen..
... The truth is more important than the facts.
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