How long is the current wait on the BME aluminum block?

I wonder how callies blocks are coming along.

Would be pure magic to have an available supply of high quality iron, and aluminum race blocks. Ya know like ford and chevy guys enjoy. Loving mopar takes a special kind of tough love to endure.

I was told by Dave Koffel several years ago that there was a lot of problems in casting iron blocks, he mentioned black magic art also
I had to wait around 2 yrs for my Koleno block and then it had a casting problem on the #4 exhaust lifter bore that Koleno took care with no hassle with me
You got to be hard headed and willing to wait if you want to build and race Mopar engines

Ray is correct, I bought a bull dog block. Nothing but issues. I have no internal water leaks, but the rear plugs leak water and the oil pan will not seal at the rear main seal retainer. Lots of extra machining required. Head bolts where only tapped 1/4 inch deep, lots of issues. At the end of the day, stay far away from the Bulldog blocks.

Over the last 4 years I have purchased 16 Bulldog blocks. Every single block had some kind of issue. They could all be corrected and used if you owned a machine shop except the last 5 we received. Many had the cam tunnel too tight, not an easy fix. All were too tight in the main saddles and needed align hone. Some had the main bearing tangs in the wrong locations. A few blocks wouldn’t accept a distributor because the hole was too small. Three blocks wouldn’t accept the oil drive gear and had to be machined longer for the gear. A recent block had a pin hole in a cylinder. All the blocks have an oil pump bolt that goes into the water jacket. We had 4 blocks that had the soft plug holes machined too small. Some blocks had the rear water holes tapped too big and the plugs would never tighten. All the HEMI blocks need to be machined for pushrod clearance. The oil pickups adaptor was a copy of the world block but is on the wrong angle and the adaptor + pickup hit the crank. Many of the blocks need to be lifter bushed because the lifter holes were .002” tapered. Last week we had a new 540 Hemi on the dyno for cam break in. When we removed the valve covers the oil was milky. Removed the intake and pressurized the tower and found 8 pin holes in the lifter gallery. When I called Bradshaw he said stop leak, should fix it and he would call me in the morning. That is not the answer I want to hear and wouldn’t send it out the door like that. After seeing this new problem we pressure tested the 5 new blocks I have and 4 of them all leak water into the lifter oil passage. There is no fix for this. I have called Bradshaw every day for 10 days and he will not even return my calls. If you have a Bulldog block or waiting for one I would check all the things I mentioned.

Ray Barton

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