-=> Quoting Sean Dunbar to Landon Robinson <=-
 SD> That little 351 wound up pretty good when I lived in El Paso.. managed
 SD> to get  it up to about 70 going up some STEEP hills (floored).  One day
 SD> I couldn't get  past 45 though.. floored.. in second gear.  You gotta
 SD> love windy days (so  windy that when I opened the hood to check the
 SD> oil, the wind grabbing the hood  lifted me AND the hood!)
The 460 never had a problem with hills it always seems to have more power
than was needed. My father just bought a new '97 F-250 that came with a 351w
in it. He wishes that it had the 460 but that was another $3,000.
 SD> Around here there's no hills.  Bah.
 
Plenty around here.
 SD> 351M (actually considered a big block), 160k.  I've (accidentally)
 SD> spun it  well past redline before though.  Last time was last week when
 
That is something I wish would get settled soon... the big block/small block
thing. One engine is a small block but another is a big block and yet they
are one cubic inch differance apart (the Chevy 350 and the Ford 351).
How does one look at this... the actual dimentions of the engine or the 
internal cubic inches?
 LR> with no big huge gaping holes with connecting rods sticking
 LR> out the sides when several years from now it comes time to
 SD> That DOES help when you want to rebuild. :)
 SD> Bondo? ;-)
 
Acutally bondo might work if you mixed it really hot and actually plugged up
the hold before it dried.  But engine vibration might it crack if the hole
were to large.
 SD> This is my first vehicle, though hardly the first thing I've driven. 
 SD> I  BELIEVE I'm the second owner of the truck; when I got it, the
 SD> original reciept  dated July 1980 was in the glove box, along with
 SD> maintenance records up to the  mid 80's, owners manual, and lots of
 SD> other papers.  All with the same name on  them.
I believe I'm the third owner of the pickup my dad bought it with 34k on
the odometer after it was about three years old and I bought it 11 years
later.  It was in really good condition then.  Then a couple of wrecks and
an incident with a semi (I drove away and the semi was in worse shape than
the truck). So needless to say it needs some work.
Ttyl,
-Landon
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