Bill Mitchell had Hemi and Wedge aluminum blocks at PRI. World did not have an iron block there and an inquiry resulted in "how do you know about that?" and an explanation that they are in the works. No Bulldogs in sight anywhere that I saw.
So are you saying World is going to cast Iron Hemi and Wedge blocks?
That's the scuttlebutt. No involvement from Tony. Seems to be early in the process. Guy I went with talked to them. I'll have to ask him if they said anything about an ETA.
When the World blocks were released around 2007 it was said that the "race" gray iron block (and the CGI block) was the same casting as the aluminum block (casting no 5153778). That foundry (
https://www.gwcast.com/en/) is still in business.
This means that if BMP wants to, the production of iron blocks could start without to much work.
Note that the "production" casting sold by Mopar is a different one (no 5153843). Weight difference doesn't seem big though.
Both types were described in the 2009 World catalog pg 57 (
http://www.hivolume.info/catalogs/WorldProducts2009_catalog.pdf).
