A very good friend, Tom Hemphill made girdles before girdles were a thing. When we all stepped up into an area where we were hurting blocks nothing worked. His customers cracked blocks regularly. We were fine into the 9’s but we soon found their limits and aluminum blocks were ordered and put to use. It was crazy to put money into a stock block if you wanted to go fast.

1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.42@138.27

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