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- Subject: Re: 302 parts compatible?
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 16:48:35 GMT
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- > Now, for you Australian fans, there's the Australian 302 from the '70s,
- >which was a derivative of the Aussie-built 351 Clevelands. It is
- >essentially a destroked 351C, and might be considered a high-deck BOSS
- >302 with 6.02 inch rods. They import 5.0 Windsors from the US now.
- >
- > For you guys running in the 5-liter classes, an Aussie 302 crank in a
- >351C block could give you a huge advantage over the Windsors.
-
- Can I assume they don't do this already? What about weight? Isn't the
- 351C block a lot heavier?
-
- I have one car with the 351C (circa 1972) motor as you described,
- destroked by the factory to 302. Everything bar the rods and crank are
- the same - makes life hard when you need to tell at a glance what the
- capacity is. Trust me on this, but the 302 loves to rev its head off,
- more so than the 351 which seems to baulk at the chance to exceed 6000
- RPM (even without a rev-limiter).
-
- Anyway, I have a query. I have been told that the 351 motors produced
- here were more 4 bolt mains than 2 bolt mains. From about 1975 on, we
- produced 2 bolt only and imported the 4V 4 bolt mains 11:1 motor from
- the US. What was this motor, was it a 351C?
-
- Incidently, in 1972, the Australian 351C 4 door GTHO achieved the
- fastest speed of a production car of 167 MPH. Not bad for a car 3450
- lbs (1568 Kg), hey? Boy those were the days. Now we get this 5.0L
- Windsor (made in Mexico?) and fair dinkum, it would have trouble
- pulling the skin off a rice pudding.
-
- Cheers.
-
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- Posted by: Mark Jose <emory!werple.apana.org.au!speednut>
-