THIS had been a long, difficult job. But now the 496 stroker big-block Chev was firmly bolted into the wide engine bay of his reworked Holden Statesman. It had come in a box as a new crate engine, with a billet-steel stroked crank, double-pumper four-barrel carb and a distributor set up for electronic ignition. Very smooth.
He had found an off-the-shelf set of exhaust headers that fitted, and now a custom pair of pipes and mufflers
