Re: [AMC-List] 401X Race Block

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, I won't speculate on value anymore. Evilbay type auctions breed high prices for garbage [not that an X block is such!].
  I would try and get it in a place where nuts like us could look at it and go COOL!
I don't see the point in actually building an engine with such a one off piece.
  After all most everyone here doubted the thing even really existed! How owuld you replace it if it was trashe? with such small bores, what's the point. It's an oddity for sure, but that is all.
--
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Nick ALFANO wrote:
> 
> > I am not sure where he got it from and there were no
> > heads there yet when I looked at it.  He has grand
> > ideas of the block being worth somewhere in the area
> > of $2500 by itself.
> 
> Well I hope he doesn't do something regrettable when/if he
> doesn't get $2500 for it. With documentation and pedigree,
> maybe, but with no docs? No history? $2500 seems a big high,
> even though it is really strange. I doubt I could get that for
> my Navarro Indy six "kit", and it's got paper(s) and a hell of
> a lot more than a single block.
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Nick Alfano 
> > Alfano Performance
> > Kenosha, WI. 53142
> > 262-308-1302
> > 262-942-8271 after 6pm central and weekends
> > 
> > Message: 11
> > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:06:25 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [AMC-List] 401X Race Block
> > To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > 
> > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Nick ALFANO wrote:
> > 
> > > I would tend to go along with you that they didn't
> > > really exist except I inspected it yesterday.  It
> > does
> > > have the 401 cast into the side of the block, there
> > > definitely is an "X" stamped above the casting and
> > it
> > > is a 3.750 bore.  The water jackets are much larger
> > > than a normal AMC V8.  Looking at the size of them,
> > I
> > > doubt this engine could be bored more than .060 over
> > > the 3.750 bore.  The oil return holes in the intake
> > > valley are plugged and it had 4 bolt mains at some
> > > point in it's life.  The part number shows it is a
> > 401
> > > but the bore is definitely not.  There is also "401"
> > > cast into the valley section of the block.  This is
> > > not some homemade job.  It is definitely cast into
> > the
> > > block.  The casting marks are much more pronounced
> > on
> > > this block than normal.  The block has been tanked
> > and
> > > blasted down to a bare casting so there is no hiding
> > > what is there. 
> > 
> > Wow, that's pretty spectacular. Where did you get it?
> > Where
> > did it come from?
> > 
> > Where there heads that came with it?
> > 
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