What Bugs Me About the 300

Okay... How about; you're making an apples to oranges comparison when you compare the 340 to the 360. The 340 was designed as a performance engine, the 360 was designed as a mid sized small block V-8 for use in full sized vehicles (1971) with its primary focus being meeting emissions regulations.

How about; the highest factory output version of the 340 came from the factory with 360 casting number cylinder heads on it.

How about; For the (appx) last 1 1/2 years of 340 production, they had cast iron crankshafts also.

Another how about; The vehicle Collison is referring to (LRT) was the quickest production vehicle in the 1/4 mile offered by any domestic manufacturer in the year it was introduced.

Patrick - Please try to realize one thing; Daniel Stern cannot keep an open mind because he is "the" expert on everything. As a result, he can't/doesn't know how to lower himself to our everyday level of thinking and reasoning, nor can he understand how those of us at our level may post something in error occasionally. Pity! RP

Neil,

You seem well versed on the Chrysler small blocks. And I appriciate your response. However, this post of mine was in reference to the W2 cylinder heads. There was some question about the W2s and I took the time to dig and sort through a ton of old magazines I've collected over the years and then posted the info I found. I thought the info would be appreciated by the group. And I thought it was, until Daniel lambasted me with name calling and insults. I expected a little more from a guy who seems very intelligent. (I've researched some info he had posted about lighting and learned quite a bit.) Is he always so antagonistic? Or was he just having a bad day?

Patrick

" snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Patrick)" wrote, regarding Daniel Stern:

Yes! RP

Thank you. I have about 33 years of experience with them.

Your post(s) seemed to be about a lot of things in general, the W2 heads were but one item that you brought up.

There was no "question" about the W2 heads. They showed up on a pre production vehicle but their chances of making it into production were slim to none. Collison was doing some wishful thinking at best.

And it appears that this occurred -after- you refuted that someone had corrected you that W2 cylinder heads were a race only piece, and that someone happened to be correct. W2 cylinder heads do not work very well on a street engine/application. Putting them into a production vehicle would have been a disaster.

Like? Most intelligent people do not casually ignore blatantly incorrect information.

(I've researched some info he

That's a good thing. :-)

If you've spent any time in r.a.m.c you'd know that the answer is no. Daniel spends a lot of time contributing and helping people, probably as much or more than anyone else.

Dunno what kind of day he was having, but it appeared to me that you hit one of his hot buttons.

Man, was I off base. I thought "never argue with a fool" was the number one law on usenet. Was that repealed?