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Old 21-11-2005, 05:04 PM   #1
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Default Stupid freakin' cracked block!

Okay, so taking the heads off my 351 Clevo has revealed slightly more cancer than I believe it had when it rolled out of the factory 27 or so years back. This wouldn't bother me quite so much if I had not have found two pinholes coming through the cylinder wall.

I'm now unsure of what to do with it. Do I scrap it? Do I try to sell it? Do I dig a hole and bury it?

Before I decide which of the above three will be the quickest and least painful (okay, so we can forget digging a hole), I want to see what else I can do with it.

It's cleaned up alright on the outside with a bit of degreaser and a quick squirt of the hose, so I reckon if I gave it a real good scrub and maybe painted it, what are some of the ideas you lot have out there?

I've though about finding a heap of speakers to fill each cylinder and running wiring through the block to a cd player and setting it up in my garage just for a different approach to the speaker tower look. I've also seen a few under a sheet of glass for a coffee table, which can look good, but I have no interest in spending any money on it due to the slap in the face it gave me last night when I tore it down. At the minute, I really like the idea of turning it into a ship anchor, but I'd have to find a cheap boat first.

Just to stir up a bit of creativity (yes, I'm quite aware of how dangerous that can be around here, but it's still fun to watch), what else can be done to create a bit of a centerpiece from my rat-eaten block?

A paperweight, just incase my collection of stickbooks aren't quite oily enough already? Fill it with dirt and stick a tulip in it?

Go hog wild, but remember to throw in some description of how your idea might be put together rather than just saying "pez dispenser" and giving me no way in hell of working out how to make that happen.

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