Originally Posted by Al Soran:
There's the problem. I say steel block, and everyone in sprint car racing immediately thinks Bowtie or Dart. "How can I spend more money"? Go ahead and get your Bowtie or Dart. If you run steel blocks, I guarantee some kid who wrenches at the local oil change facility will go to the junk yard and find a block out of an old pick up truck, and he will eventually whip you....or not. But, that's the point. Give a regular guy a little hope. Why else would he get a sprint car? He wouldn't, and they don't. They get modifieds.
Did Opperman EVER run an aluminum block? Kenny Weld? Did the two of them ever have any good races? Have any fun? Did Opperman come from money? Would we have ever seen him run if he were starting out today? Unlikely.
there is a couple of things about running a stock cast block (even with it being prepared)
1. if there is not a cubic inch rule trying to find good 400 blocks are almost gone
2. most of your stock blocks have core shift and the less the core shift the more power you can make ( I have about 8 stock small blocks at home and everyone of them are core shifted)
steel blocks are not a bad idea but if tracks are going to go to them we might as well go to a crate engine and that would be fine with me too.
as for everyone talking about the blue collar guy in my opinion if you want it bad enough you will figure a way out to get it.