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215 CI Buick Mill

To: tigers@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: 215 CI Buick Mill
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 19:50:46 -0500
>At 03:16 PM 1/20/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Why would you want to mess with the 215 Buick engine?  I have a block
>from one that I made into a coffee table.  The only advantage it has
>over the 289 is that it won't rust.  With its cast iron cylinder sleeves
>and re-enforcing, it weighs nearly as much as a 289 block.  Plus there
>aren't exactly a glut of high performance (let alone any) parts for it. 


Ah, but there are!  This became a stock high-performance Leyland engine for
many years and parts are available from the UK (or were fairly recently).
I believe it is still used, in its 3500 guise, in Range Rovers and the like.

Marc

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