Does anyone have a link to a Hot Rod Magazine or Car Craft article about crate engines?  I'm trying to brainstorm a really nice '68 Firebird up that I can't pay for, and I'm trying to remember a Shafiroff-type Poncho engine builder.  

Are you talking about Bruce Fulper.  

Maybe.  There was another guy who had a small outfit building crate engines.  I think I remember that he used aluminum con-rods even on street applications.  And still another shop was casting their own blocks to crank up the displacement.  I wish I could get to my magazine collection!  

You might want to check these sites www.angelfire.com/fl4/pontiacdude428 and www.pontiacengines.com  

Thanks.

I think I found it-- Jim Butler

http://www.butlerperformance.com/products/engines_assemblies.html#Engines