The '400 SBC Trick': Larger Bore, Shorter Stroke

400 Main which was a little over 200 000 bigger but uh put the spacer in the block cap on it that was the correct size for a 350 crank and line board it like say about 400s for two bolt so we've been splayed caps on them like that that worked out for good quickly when they come out with the bow tie block later on that quickly evolved that's what everybody did used a bigger bowl shorter stroke is that the same Arizona was running the 180 degree headers and stuff on his cars yeah you were building these engines back then we didn't build these engines we did this block work and cylinder head work were the cylinder heads you were using like a factory like a Corvette head or do you remember what it was from the very first ones were Factory type he had quickly evolved in what they referred to as the bow tie cast iron head required an extension from out of work so it was all done by hand the heads were very fragile it was a given