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Old 10-16-2008, 04:44 PM
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Looks very nice.
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I saw that monster up close and personal today. It's a beauty!
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Originally Posted by Black02SLPSS
What makes the warhawk blocks a headache out of curiosity..
Also curious. What makes this block not worth the money? I figured World would put out pretty high-quality stuff, albeit I've never had any first hand experience.
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Just my observation, are the cylinder walls paper thin? Maybe it's the picture. Being solid roller is he planning on spinning past 7,500 rpm's and with the large stroke?
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That's the first 4.500 inch stroke LS engine I've seen. I'll be interested to see how this works out. I'm suprised it still has a decent compression height. I'd love to have one of those tall deck blocks. What do you plan on doing about headers and an intake manifold?
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y is the warhawk a headache
Old 10-16-2008, 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted by NemeSS
y is the warhawk a headache
Well, for starters we got one with the wrong caps. The one before that looked like it was surfaced on an endmill.

We have one on the CNC right now, I'll see if I can snap some pics tomorrow.
Old 10-17-2008, 03:45 AM
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Originally Posted by NemeSS
y is the warhawk a headache
It's a new part and hopefully will just keep getting better. Lot's of small issues that can be corrected and should be as these blocks get more time on them.
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Originally Posted by Beaflag VonRathburg
That's the first 4.500 inch stroke LS engine I've seen. I'll be interested to see how this works out. I'm suprised it still has a decent compression height. I'd love to have one of those tall deck blocks. What do you plan on doing about headers and an intake manifold?
The ERL 500 inchers are 4.500 strokes as well. Jud and ERL did one at SAM 2 years or more ago already. It's a rather tight fit and makes you run an undersized base circle on the cam for rod clearance as well. Not a lot of lifters work well but it's gonna have a lot of low end! That one is like 10.200 deck height whereas this one is 9.800. Your at the edge of having enough cylinder to make it work so you have to be really careful.
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Wow, that's quite impressive. I'm also curious about what rare f-body it's going into.
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Originally Posted by Patrick G
TFS 235 cathedral port heads massaged by Brian Tooley and set up for solid roller.
wow, they flow better than the ls7 heads?
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^ They work better than LS7s. Flow numbers aren't everything.
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Originally Posted by The Alchemist
Wow, that's quite impressive. I'm also curious about what rare f-body it's going into.
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awesome build! looking forward to dyno results and more pictures.
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Originally Posted by Black02SLPSS
What makes the warhawk blocks a headache out of curiosity..
we had one with the saddle machined too narrow on the thrust bearing. Which resulted in tooling up a custom shim on our dime.

Any issues/questions with the block and people at world prod. give you the run around and say the engineering for the block was contracted from outside (?)

and the main caps are all over the place on the ones we've had.

nothing that can't be fixed with some attention

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Originally Posted by conan
Beautiful looking engine. Two Q's is there any issues with sleves cracking? Is there any coolant jackets in the bock for the 3,4,5,6 cylinders?
Any one have any feed back about my 2 questions. Those cylinder walls look scary to me.
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I wanna see how this one turns out, as well as the car its going in
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I think that motor is looking for a donor car. Low mileage late model SS hardtop.
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Ron, do you guys build the motor's in house or does somebody else?


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