Most locomotive builders play the what if game all the time: "What if the cam were a little higher in the cube?" or "What if I could get another 0.250-inch stroke?"
But most engine builders aren't like Bill Mitchell. For the over 35 years, he's made a business out of acting on the what if thoughts that pop into his knowledge, and that's led his Long Island, New York-based company, Earth Products, to not only build high-performance street and racing engines but also throw out the cylinder blocks, heads, and intakes of which they're composed. That includes Chevy trifling-block, big-block, and LS-style engines; Ford Windsor-mode engines; and, more recently, Chrysler Hemi/wedge blocks.
So when you're the guy in fact pouring the molten metal into the molds and you get an idea, you're in a nice position to act on it. Mitchell's latest brainstorm is a biggie, too: What if you combined the tried-and-frankly form of the original small-block Chevy with the superb breathing characteristics of modern LS engines? You'd get far easier initiation in vintage cars, traditional distributor-triggered ignition (a fundamental in many racing classes, especially circle track series), and essentially unlimited airflow possibilities with the LS heads. Too bad LS heads don't fit on a undersized-block, right? But Mitchell took a few measurements, punched a few numbers on a adding machine, and had his CAD designers redesign the small-block's water passages to fit the LS head. The result is the Motown II LS (Motown being the name of World Products' gauge small-block casting). We recently visited the Clique Products facility to check it out in person and found more than a theoretical pattern-we followed the assembly of the first small-block/LS combination and witnessed it put down about 630 hp on one of the company's locomotive dynos.
Source: Hot Rod Magazine
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