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In the Top Alcohol Hydro and Top Alcohol Flat almost all the engines run either Arias, Stage IV, or Brad Anderson Engineering heads on heavily modified production based Chevy 454 or Ford 460 blocks. When you get to Top Fuel Hydros the powerplants tend to use Keith Black or Janke or other dedicated drag motors.
About the only odd ball powerplant I have seen is one powering the Fair Warning Top Fuel Hydro. The use a dual turbocharged Ford fuel motor. The inlet for the turbos is about 6 inches in diameter. Sounds really weird compared to other supercharger big blocks.
There is a guy here in Tulsa that runs an old Ford SVT skunkworks DOHC big block in a Mustang II. Awesome looking engine. Most people don't even notice the odd shaped heads at first glance. No telling where he got the engine and how he got Ford to let go of it.
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