[Russ Noble]

Bob was never one to be confined by traditional thinking..... I remember some years before the Mustang when he had his Anglia with a sleeved, hugely overbored Cortina motor that kept splitting the block lengthwise. The attempted cure was to drill through the block between the bores and install three long bolts to try to pretension it to prevent the splitting....Can't really remember now how successful that was, but I think it made them last a little longer.