Yeah? So what's your point? It was light, and I carried the entire
engine, but I couldn't do that with a 289. Remeber, I was 18, 6'4" 275lbs,
played football, and ran track. I could dead lift 425lbs, so carrying 275
or so was no big deal.....Although it did impress the hell out of my shop
teacher. The engine was covered in typical engine grime and crud, so you
couldn't tell it was aluminum. I think he aged about ten years on the spot
!
Rich..not near as burly as I was twenty years ago... 8-(
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> From: mmeswarb@huntel.net[SMTP:mmeswarb@huntel.net]
> Reply To: mmeswarb@huntel.net
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 8:07 AM
> To: tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: 215 CI Buick Mill
>
> Sorry, but this sounds like a case of: "The older I get the faster I
> was". I'd like to see a picture of anyone doing this, especially a high
> school kid. I just weighed the bare block in my basement. No crank,
> pistons, rods, heads, nothing. It weighs 75 pounds.
>
> No offense,
> Mark
>
> Richard Atherton (Entex) wrote:
> >
> > Actually, the engine is quite a bit lighter than even the thin
> wall
> > castings of the 289. Remember, the heads on the 289 are not so thin!,
> nor
> > are any of the other cast iron parts on it. To give you an idea of the
> > weight, I carried the complete engine minus the Aluminum bell housing,
> on my
> > shoulder with ease into my High school shop class in 1978 when I bought
> it
> > from a wrecking yard. Granted, at that time I was 6'4" and 275 lbs, so
> it
> > wasn't any big deal. But this was the complete engine. Exhaust
> manifolds
> > (iron), intake, water pump, pan, iron crank, even the fly wheel.
>
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