THere's one like this:

http://speed.racingjunk.com/category/127...inum-Block.html

near me for sale. New as well, drilled for water passages/motor mounts.

Never seen the built-in girdle/main cap mounting system before.

Would this be a good engine to run on the street? Anything to look out for?

Everything is std. Std bore/sleeves, cam height, lifter bores, deck height, etc.

Those haven't been made for probably 25years. I want one just to have. I have only seen one in person. They have wet sleeves and require a 0psi radiator cap.

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no one here noticed that it is a three piece block

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what am i missing Fred i only see two?

yea i figured that had something to do with it...but then wouldn't that make it a four piece block

What exactly is the problem with wet sleeves and the street? I've personally put millions of miles on them with no trouble, albeit not in a Hemi.

Kevin

Here's the block thinking of getting.

I never could get mine to seal in my dragboat, met Nick Arias at PRI back in the 90's, he had just bought up all of the molds, castings, sleeves, etc, from Milodon, got all new o-rings and sleeves from him, still wouldn't hold water, changed over from blown gas to blown alky just so I could get some use out of the block. A lot of plus's for the block at the time, love the oiling system, oils through the girdle, pressures the mains on the bottom at 5 and 7 o'clock instead of
from the cam down. The girdle/main installation is pretty straight forward, 4-studs per main with about 20 3/8ths perimeter studs, just not user friendly if you have to get to the main bearings on a regular basis. Given the availability of new blocks now, the $6000 block is way, way over priced, only someone doing a ground up restoration on a nostalgia funny or dragster is going to want to pay that much. If your buddy will sell his for 1000-1500 and it hasn't been exploded and repaired it could be run in a dry-block drag, injected or mild blown alky combo, don't think you could ever get it to seal water for the street though. BTW if you do get it, I've got 9 sleeves and most head and main studs if you need any extras. Thats all I could salvage from mine.......

so that is why the Arias block has a slight similarity about it

early Milodon

Hey Fred,

Forgot that you might not recognize this screen name, joined M'chat back in '01, when I was still running my old altered with the 512 ironhead wedge motor. Just never got around to changing the screenname there when I went back to the Hemi. Don't know why it took me so long to join over here, been lurking for years.