1962 Was a new campus year in the same residence with a new roommate, my third. One Sunday we drove into Detroit to Logghe Stamping. In a warehouse, we could see a dark shape. It was a twin engine dragster. With NHRA outlawing exotic fuels the cars on gasoline again sought new formulas. Hot Rod had a technical article about the very engine in this dragster. It was the first 4 inch by 4 inch Chevrolet V-8. The pistons had plugs over the piston pins with grooves for the piston rings since with the stock deck height the crowns of the pistons (Forgedtrue?) now were only a few inches high. A custom crank with a four-inch stroke (Moldex?) replaced the 3-1/4-inch stroke of a 327. Now each engine had 400 cubic inches. What was going on this day was my roommate’s friend from High school was replacing the Joe Hunt Vertex magnetos with Mallory Mini-Mags. The Mallory items had a small battery pack and ordinary points. I noticed that he used Link-Belt type timing chains. I had a Corvette dual row roller chain on my car. He thought that the roller type stretched but was a good coupling between the two engines with back to back sprockets. (Am I making this last sentence up?) From then on one had to distinguish between a 409 big-block and a 400, small block. Earlier this same roommate had introduced me to his friend Paul who had a 409 cubic-inch Biscayne two door no special trim and 360 horse power from a single (Carter AFB, I think) four barrel. Wow! With Positraction and 4.11: 1 gears in the rear and a 4 speed it just fishtailed. This opened a way it seems to a special order from Parkwood Chevrolet in Lakewood, California for a 1965 Chevelle Malibu convertible with a 396 with 375 horsepower, Positraction aluminum four speed but normal 3:33 rear gears. When that did not come through as it was late August coming up I waited.