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      01-25-2018, 11:00 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by dparm View Post
I still think that's very impressive: a larger, higher displacement engine with more sophisticated valvetrain + components is only 30 pounds heavier than the one it replaces.
It is, but a large part of that is also that a V block is inherently a more compact form than an inline block.

That, and the S54 block being made of iron
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