You where writing to Sean Dunbar;
> 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?
Physical external dimensions. Mostly. =-) 
 400cid small block chevy.
 396cid big block chevy.   and whatever other makes and models of engines
you choose to throw into the fray.
You just gotta get to know the engines over time so you can label them.  In
the begining I kept getting myself into a heck of a fray by using the term
400 big block. (with 396, 402, 400's all being bandied about).
Alex.
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