Re: One more rant on SpeedTV's Muscle Car challenge

["ndaracer1975" <ndaracer1975@xxxx>]

hmmmm, I thought 383 strokers were built for torque. 


--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "John W Rosa" <JohnRosa@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> Big difference, dude.
> 
> Small blocks will get their high cubes by 
> stroking longer, whereas big blocks have 
> bigger bores. This forces small blocks to 
> work harder to achieve similar HP while 
> never really reaching the torque numbers 
> of the big blocks. And that torque is 
> your launch. If you can't launch, you can't
> win.
> 
> Had AMC had the ability to finance the 
> creation of their own Big Block, who knows 
> how badly we'd have embaraased the big 
> three. But as history stands, all we could
> do was get close.
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ndaracer1975 [mailto:ndaracer1975@xxxx]
> 
> Cubes are cubes so I don't see the relevance of the 
> block that carry's em.