DECEPTION AND COMPETITION are a nearly inseparable alliance that has been part of the performance game for as long as engines have been inhaling atomized fossil fuels and burping spent hydrocarbons. Regardless of the type of competition, surreptitious creativity quite often plays heavily into the game. Some might call it cheating. Others consider it opportunity.
The trick, of course, is to successfully pull off the ruse while avoiding detection. Detection can often be avoided with the addition of an intentional distraction… and in certain situations the trickery can be even more effective when there is none.
Such is the game the owner of this 351W stroker engine intended, and he wanted to be sure he would be able to play it well. With a punch-you-in-the-face displacement of 426 cubic inches, the Windsor build
