Either way, the engine will make 500 horses and big-block-style torque, while saving 150 to 200 pounds, compared to the traditional Rat. And youll still be able to say, Yeah, I got a 427 under the ...

It's Barry Kluczyk's look at a big engine that came in an unconventional (and very unassuming) package for the period: a 500-horsepower, 550 lb-ft Bill Mitchell 427-cubic-inch small block ...

Bill Mitchell has a Sensible Alternative to Big-Buck Small-Block engines. ... In addition to offering bare and race-prepped blocks for sale, Bill Mitchell Hard Core Racing Products offers a 427 ...

But most engine builders aren't like Bill Mitchell. For the past 35 years, he's made a business out of acting on the what if thoughts that pop into his brain, and that's led his Long Island, New ...

Yes, this Sting Ray is a 60-year-old championship winner with a Chevy small block that was one of the first engines to surpass the hallowed 1-hp-per-cube barrier. Today it makes about the same ...

His most recent venture has been to team up with Bill Mitchell at World Products to develop an aluminum 409 block. "The problem is that blocks have just about dried up," Walden says.

Mitchell says the improved single-plane is also up 3-4 hp at 2,500 rpm and 15 hp at 4,000 over Merlins dual-plane offering. Rated at 870 cfm, the carb is a hybrid Holley double-pumper built up ...

The Bill Mitchell/World Products hybrid SBC/LS cast-iron block has the cam raised 0.134 inch over a classic small-block, 350 2.20-inch mains, an LS 9.240-inch deck, a 4.120-inch bore, four-bolt ...

The first thing that Mitchell’s design staff did was to remove the 327 small-block and drop in one of the new 427 ZL1 all-aluminum Can-Am engines.

Bill Mitchell’s 1970 “Scirocco ... Small-block Corvette hoods from 1968 to 1972 were “nice ... Mitchell thought it was pretty cool that the same basic engine he used in his ...

C3 Big-Block Engine Swap - Big ... person on the planet when it comes to Chevy's 409 big-block—he designed the new all-aluminum 409 and 509 for Bill Mitchell's World Products—and he holds the ...