Water In Block Or Not?

BBC solid heads, iron block. Run the block dry?

 

I run my block dry. Its a solid head Dart Big M deal. No problems.

 

Interesting, I'm going to a solid head with a big M also.

 

Which head did you decide to go with?

Just curious.
There are so many types of Big block heads you don't seem to see the same head twice.

 

Profiler 375X

 

We had no issue with running the block dry, where we did run into some problems was the heads dry. We were getting small cracks and actually dropped an exhaust seat because of it, snapped off the head of the valve when it closed and all hell broke loose.
Putting solid heads back on it now.
Brodix 14.5 deg

 

TD 4028,
Interesting. Question comes to mind is how lean did you run the motor before dropping the exhaust valve? I don't have solid heads and I'm not running water in my BBC Dart Big-M block.
Thanks, Joe

 

As well, I ran stainless exhaust valves for a season. The valves were so brittle they shattered like glass. Switched to superalloy.