Re: aluminium blocks

[Wolff <quattro200@earthlink.net>]

c a l i b a n wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Eaton Dave wrote:
> 
> ]there is one certified aluminium block wr in new zealand which i know about.
> ]a rare commodity, and the owner knows it....
> 
>         how can one tell, by looking under the hood?

Get a magnet. Stick it to the side of the block. In the unlikely event
that it doesn't stick, you have won the prize. (The heads are alloy, so
no point in testing them.)
HTH,
Wolff
4 iron block I-5's.