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Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: International Edition and Last Friday’s Answer


Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: International Edition and Last Friday’s Answer

Last Friday I threw some photos of a race block at you and despite my best efforts to be vague and oddly angled with the photos, you nailed it. It is a Ford race block that will wear Hemi style heads. I thought it would at least take a few wild ass guesses before someone nailed it, but I’m obviously dealing with ninja-level BangShifters here. We’re going to pester Dana and Jon at Custom Automotive Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts when they start screwing that monster together to get you all the inside dirt on what should be a spectacularly powerful mill. A mean Hemi Clevor it will be!

Onto today’s action. Since you’re all a bunch of smarty pants jerks, I’m going furrin’ on you! BangShifter Darryl sent me these photos and they feature a V8 engine made on a different continent. Chad guessed Antarctica. He was wrong. He also guessed France and I let him know that France was wrong, too and then he was all offended and asked how they got a form of bread named after them and that there’s no such thing as “American bread”. He may have been snorting fingerprint dust in the $200 Hauler, I’m still not sure.

Disregarding that, your job is to identify the make and cubic inch displacement of this block. Oh yeah, tell us where it is made, too you bunch of gearhead know it alls!

 


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9 thoughts on “Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: International Edition and Last Friday’s Answer

  1. Dominic O'Loughlin

    I may have an unfair advantage being Australian, but my guess is a 308 Cubic Inch Holden. R/H Cylinder bank is ahead of the left, which is the give away.

  2. 65RHDeer

    Yes, too easy for the blokes from down under, it’s a standard pattern 308/253 Holden block, (Not turbo bolt pattern) cast at Holden’s Fishermen’s bend plant. Note the four bolts per cylinder for the heads.

  3. clint

    Sorry not a 308 Holden, it doesn’t have the 4 head bolt bosses inside the valley like the 308 holden behind it in the second photo. However it might be a 304 Holden….

  4. racer193

    Its a 304 holden from the info and pics I could find.I ran out of time so I cant find the specs .

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