Your dump! HAHA I think there was post on this along time ago? It sounds like a good question to me? I almost sure its because of the cost to put that kinda thing into operation would be some major bucks. And you can still find them and fix-em . It might not be to far off that some one will be doing some casting? But most don't want to run a flattie as of yet...I don't know??? Later, BS
I think there is alot more difficult to make a Flathead compared to a SBC, but that did not stop henrys boys crank out 3000 block's a day back on 32. But i heard rumors that someone is tooling up to cas new blocks. But you can buy new French blocks if you need one bad.
But when is someone gonna re-cast some NEW Oldsmobile 394 engines??? Those things run so damn good with so little effort...and just have the "right" character...someone could make a fortune with 'em!!! One vote here! (Two if raising both hands helps!)
On a similar vein, I've heard they're making a 392 for the Nostalgia top fuel crowd. Anyone know more about that one?
New blocks and new stroker cranks for flatheads, Aluminum heads for Y Blocks; next thing you know will be 409's in a crate! Now all we need is to get prices down to below gold chainer level for some of those parts which means "made in China" I guess. I'd love to see some finned heads at $99 a set again!
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