My dad had a '79 Caprice Classic with a 350 4bbl. It would not stop! I swear that car could have been taken into combat and still survive. One of my family's longest lasting cars.
The 350 in the 70 1/2 Z-28 was down rated 10 horse power to 360 because Corvette was the flagship performance line, so nothing that was the same cubic inches was always lower.
The 350 built right is tough as an anvil. What held them all back was the cylinder heads. The technology just was not there. This is what makes the LS so good. It's just an air pump, it has to breath. The LS head just keeps getting better.
Thank you for sharing this. I found it very interesting. There was a time when I could rattle off all kinds of SBC trivia, but now in my late 50s, some of it has slipped my mind. The first SBC that I ever built was a 307 in a 1969. I bought the car my senior year in high school in 1982 while working at a Shell gas station. Every one else was building 327s and 350s, but they had money that I didn't. I put a nice Crane cam inside it and a pair of Hooker headers. I also got an Edelbrock intake and used a Quadrajet carb. Everyone else was using Holley carbs, and I wanted to be different. I bought a book on tricking out Q-jets. (We didn't have the internet or RUclips then). I must have taken that carb apart a half dozen times before I got it right. After that I fell in love with Quadrajets. I finished off my 307 with an HEI distributor which was a tight fit in a Nova, followed by a GM 1 wire alternator. True, my 307 powered Nova was not a quarter mile winner. But I enjoyed the end results because I did it all myself. The cam, headers, and intake were the only big investments. The Qjet, distributor and alternator came from wrecking yards. I drove the wheels off my Nova (figuratively speaking) for about five years before selling it. The guy who bought it didn't change a thing, he wanted to be odd like me and own a semi-built 307.
My 64 Malibu has the 283/ power glide. She's not fast or powerful by today's standards but is the sweetest little engine. Smooth as silk sounds fantastic and propels the little cruiser just fine. Only other sbc I'd want in it would be a 327.
Amazing delivery on information. I have a 79 small-block 350 square body. After 2 g of rebuild it is almost Bulletproof. New cam intake headers and completely new electrical components for ignition. Its pushing about 330 hp rn my first build. Video. Great info.
The late 70s 305 was known for improperly hardened camshafts. My old man had a '77 C10, and GM paid for a cam replacement at about 40,000 miles. When I was in my teens the hot setup for "Limited Sportsman" at our local short track was a Chevelle with a 327. (Limited Sportsman cars had to be 351 CID or smaller, but there were almost no Fords.)
Good video! I caught one mistake. The 70 Lt 350 did make 370 h.p. in the Corvette. But made 360 h.p. in the Camaro! The difference was the exhaust flowed better in the Vette.
First time I have seen any of your vids... Excellent job linking all of this SBC history together in one story. Personally, I am not a fan of the latest electronic technologies in GM's or any other brand of engine. Coil on plug, sequential port FI ... great steps forward. Gas direct FI, variable cam timing, cylinder deactivation, stop / start... Complexity that costs more than it is worth, and potentially more troublesome over time IMHO.
I was at SEMA in 2018. I talked with a GM engineer and asked him which LS/LT engine was the best. He said the LS3 is the best V8 GM has ever built and will probably be the best ever. The LTs were required to have a lot of cylinders deactivation tech that impaired overall design. He didn’t even mention the LS7.
The 327 seemed like an engine they could have done more with. An old lady in the neighborhood used to drive this 66 Malibu coupe kinda like a gasser setup but not as high and she liked to rev it. Seemed like a peppy motor. My mom was lucky enough to own a ‘67 camaro with the 302, mechanic gave it to her when he messed up her push button Plymouth valiant. I liked my ‘92 z28 L98, wouldn’t have LT swapped or LS swapped it. Best engine of the ‘90s is the LT that came in the impala
1984 305 L69 was a great motor. I loved my Z28 5 speed. 190hp rated by GM but it truly was stronger. It never ever let me down and I put 120,000 km's on it before I sold it to a friend.
I bet that the z28 will be called the e28 when cars go full electric and the z06 will turn into the e06 that’s just my thoughts I don’t know what will really happen just an opinion
I have a verity of versions of the 350 at my disposal. I have the old school 4-barrel carb 350 out of an 86 trans am, the famous l98 out of my 89 iroc-z, and the ls6 out of my 04 corvette z06. Each behaves like a different animal. The carbed 1st gen engine is very much a dinosaur. Its easy to mod, maintain and sounds very old-school but, it also gets 7 miles to the gallon. Not great for a daily, especially with the recent prices. The l98 is surprisingly a great motor, though people love to beat down on it only being "240" hp. This is mainly from the emissions restrictions that were put in place and they choke the poor engine so at any rpm higher than 4000 it falls on its face. Its super torquey from factory at 340lb/f and is a great street car. I went and took out all the emissions stuff thanks to the car being over 25 years old and grandfather laws allowing it in my state. The car runs a lot stronger now (and a lot louder too I might add), but I need to get it on a dyno so I can give you an actual number of increase. If you do plan on getting a 3rd gen like you said, it's not bad option to keep the l98 in it if you have one. If it has a 305, yeet that shit though, it's really bad. The LS6 is probably the fanciest of the bunch, if you could call a pushrod V8 in modern times fancy. The all-aluminum setup makes it very fun on the throttle. Whoever made the decision to have headers on it from factory was a genius, or at least I think it's from factory. It can put around town calmly and contained, but then roar down the highway. The subtly and instant power anywhere on the powerband is what sells the ls6 for me. All in all, I love all my cars and their great V8s. GM sure knows how to build them.
7mpg??? holy crap something is definitely wrong. i have a 1975 k20 flatbed with a 400 th400 and 4:10 gears and it still gets 10mpg. not sure whats going on there but if you're actually getting 7mpg something is definitely wrong. i have a 87 Camaro 3.42 gears and a tremec 5 speed with a 425hp 350. that got 21.5mpg on my last trip cruising 80mph with the AC on.
@@konnerkramer329 I haven't driven the car since 2018 but yeah motor wasn't running the best then. I probably would also get 10 if it was ok. The Camaro gets 20ish on the highway if I drive it nice and don't romp on it.
Great video slideshow. I watched until you started making mistakes. You showed a big block called a small block, then you called the 4.3 a V8. Wikipedia just isn't a good place to get information...
GM can make a statement saying they’re ceasing all gas production all they want. I don’t see it happening. Not in my lifetime. All I see is a political stunt to please the tree huggers
Most people don't know that Chevrolet had an overhead valve V8 in the TEENS,they deemed it too powerful and went with the overhead valve inline 6! You need to dig a little deeper next time.
I guessed 383 before you finished that sentence lol. 416 LT strokers are today’s equivalent. And they are beasts. Also, the 305 of the 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s made around 230-300 ft/lbs of torque, depending on the year.
Personally I don't think internal combustion engines are going anywhere. But that's me. I live in cold climate area and know the limits of batteries. It will be fun to see who actually gets it right.
A properly maintained and running internal combustion engine will start just fine in cold. Batteries are a problem. As well as starters. They make aftermarket, higher cranking capacity starters. And I've also seen people mount a second battery box in the vehicle, hooked up for double amperage. Cold affects pretty much everything metal, plastic, liquid and rubber. Electric cars will go dead faster in cold. One at least has the engine running to supply a margin of heat to the battery, as well as the alternator pushing a charge. I'm convinced that electric vehicle makers could engineer a charging system to charge electric vehicles batteries while driving. But the name of the game is to keep people dependant on big corporations. Be it big oil, coal or nuclear. It's my humble opinion that nuclear is the worst idea for producing energy. The by product from nuclear is hazardous for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years. We STILL cannot get within 10 feet of the "elephant foot" of the Chernobyl plant melt down, for more than 10 seconds. That happened in 1986. Fukishima happened in 2014. To this day, the entire quadrant of that island is pretty much abandoned. They continue to build 100,000 gallon tanks, every day and a half, to hold contaminated water being sucked out. That's just what they can capture. The rest is going into the ocean. There's an abandoned nuclear plant on the coast of California, storing radioactive waste. There are signs posted, saying that you cannot dig, bore, build, remove or disturb the area for another 22,000 years. Until we come up with something or some way of using spent nuclear material, it is far more hazardous in the present and long run, to the world as a whole. This is just my opinion. But many others agree.
Only a year later and the evs are getting solutions to most the cold weather issues it seems. You are starting to see Tesla's as a very common choice for Denver/boulder/CO springs residents who have to make the treacherous i70 commute to the ski towns often. It's because of the Awd, and the ability to run the heat for an insanely long time on a charge when crashes inevitably happen and you sit idle for hours. When I saw this it made me think it's coming ready or not :(
@@samuelriester1419 my buddy bought one in the fall. It's new and it does lose about 30 percent in winter. Loves it but does not use it for trips just as a daily to work.
@@robertbeckler5058 oh yeah I know li batteries are less efficient in the cold, I was referring to concerns that they don't work at all or aren't reliable in the cold.
The LS is the most brilliant engine ever designed! Chevrolet took 50 years of knowledge and improved every shortcoming of the original small block and designed a bulletproof engine that just DID NOT brake or wear out. They put a special coating on the cylinder walls that just prevented any type of wear at all. I bought a 5.3 gen 3 LS1 with 220,000 miles on it and when i disassembled it it literally looked brand new inside with hone cross hatching still on the cylinder walls!!!! And putting the crank deeper into the block and 6 bolt Main caps just made it impossible to break it unless you way over rev it. If you keep the oil clean so you don't hurt the needle bearings in the lifters and rockers you could get a million miles out of one of them. You can make 900 hp without any short block upgrades! Just absolutely brilliant engineering until they started making them direct injection and compromising the valve train with lifters that bypass their pump to drop cylinders for fuel economy. Over engineering we will call that
I had rare 1970 chevelle Malibu with 400 and you right it’s actually 402 I bought it from Connecticut in 1984 for only $1700 and sold it 1992 for $2500 I don’t know about the hp but it was beast and fun to drive
You forgot the lsa,zl1,ls9......I have 2 lsa's one in my cts-v and one I swapped into my '74 nova......which has a 2.45" blower pulley which gets me 14lbs boost if the weather is right!!!!
@@trentdawg2832 Not super worth it, the LS9 is just a hand-built supercharged LS3 depending how you look at it and the LSA is just a second gen, shitter LS9. Also, why would he mention the ZL1 package in an engine video?
I am a huge fan of the original gen 1 small block Chevy. I grew up with them. I built dozens of them, from mild to wild. Daily drivers to 1000+ hp drag race engines. They are a near perfect design, and if built right, using high quality aftermarket parts, can last half a million miles. I've never built or owned one that wasn't carbureted. I don't do EFI. Period. I have zero interest in any engine with a computer connected to it. I am a mechanic, not a computer technician.
Buick was such a genius in creating the small block, that the Detroit Diesel and Olds Diesel engines borrowed the architecture from both SBC and BOP blocks! As far as early fuel injection, the OBD system was so easy to diagnose, all you needed was a paperclip. The sensors themselves only read voltage differences, so as long as the PROM chip was reading good AFR, it would set timing and fuel trim accordingly. A SBC will run on a gas can under the hood, if need be.
@@lop8828 it’s definitely possible. I have a customer right now having us build a small block we suspect will be close to 1000. We suspect, but have never built the combo he’s asking us to, but I think it’ll be pretty close.
Gerald Scott , I have now and have built 283 , 307, 327 , and 350 small block Chevy engines One of my 327 Engines has 12:1 compression, makes 450hp and cranks to the Moon , 11,000rpm before the valves start to float , pulls both front tires off the ground in first and second gear with a M-21 Muncie 4 speed Trans and 12 bolt posi First Generation And I was number 50 on your thumbs up
The 327 was a very good engine. Good balance of usability with the spirit to get out and run. I feel it was really slighted in this video as the big part it was in development of Chevy performance. The jump up to 350 was primarily from different racing groups calling for the 355 displacement. I will agree about the 383. That is a great all around performer also. I am surprised Chevy didn't take advantage of it. I am glad there are all the new bells and whistles to these newer motors to keep the hype up, and new motorheads involved in motorsports and auto customizing. But I am lost back in the olden dazes when you could actually see the engine parts such as heads and intake. Just more personality to the motor.
@@ronfullerton3162 the engine masters guy with the Dyno built a 475 hp 327, he is suck a good engen builder, just a career of experience. a 360 hp 327 is vart doable with modern parts.
@@AutoGuild I think he's talking about the 90s lt5 from the zr1s that Lotus help build I believe. Being you put the built 383 in there that gm really didn't build. I'd have added the sb2,sb2.2,ro7 that gm actually built for the Nascar series.
I have a 1955 Chevy with the original 265 and 2015 Corvette with the LT1. I've had 283, 327 305 and 4.8 and 325 LS engines also. I plan on keeping the 265 as long as I can.
It would be fun to port the heads on your 265 and put a aftermarket roller cam and z28 high rise style intake manifold to see how much more that would get out of it. Ram horn manifolds can flow well, so just add a turbo muffler they flow and sound good.
Sooner or later reality is going to hit the auto industry number 1 electric powered vehicles are not going to be here as fast as we all think. How are we going to charge all these electric vehicles when the government is trying to shut down power plants. You're not gonna be able to charge your car solely on on solar panels or windmills. I believe the gas powered engines are gonna be around a lot longer in new vehicles than what we think or what would be in led on to believe. The technology is not here yet or not affordability to the masses. It's going to have to be a technology to be where the car is able to charge itself while moving down the road or self charging systems. Because me personally if I want to drive across the United States I don't want to have to stop every 300 to 400 miles for 8 hours to charge my vehicle.
Those are the pragmatic concerns that I don't hear any of the cheerleaders addressing (and I'm not an EV hater). Add to that battery life and replacement cost... Even if they get the cost down comparable to an ICE car, if it has a 7 year battery life (very optimistic with today's state-of-the-art), at the end it's 7 year depreciation period, it will essentially be worthless unless a 10k to 15k (or more) full battery pack is replaced. Plus, with the initial ramp up, motors and batteries will be very hard to get in the aftermarket channels as the OEMs will be sucking up all the supply for the assembly lines. Me thinks ICE cars will have a period of nice valuations around 2030.
We're not going to run out of electricity . Shutting down overly polluting coal fired power plants is good. Forcing cleaner more efficient power plants to be built in conjunction with renewable sources to create cheaper overall electricity rates.
The one comment I will definitely agree with you on is the best small block ever built the 290 horse 302 other than that you have a lot of your facts very confused .
@@alexbenjaminlubbers that's what you prefer. But cost per performance is the reason why it's overshadowed. Over course the LT1 is a beautiful engine. Things were built to be looked at back then. Not so much anymore. Though, the LS can look amazing too.
@hunnterful1 The DOHC LT5 from the early 2000s is technically built by Lotus. But honestly not many people know about it. It was out only so briefly and in a rare model the ZR1 vettes of those early 90s years. 385-405hp. I hardly see any content on them I'd like to see what they're capable of modified.
@@clifford_2zero7 the new lt6 is cool for new tech but man i just want to own a late c4 zr1, people had specially made cams that produced decent power but those are 1 of 1 cams. Even if lotus did make it GM hated it because they started to discontinue parts for it.
I like the graphics, but I have a suggestion. As they were passing by I did not know which you were talking about. Perhaps having some kind of indicator or something? I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be looking at. But, definitely some fantastic information. Thumbs up.
@@AutoGuild Great job on the vid. I hear you. I'm trying to get going on some vids, it's hard work. I like something called ASMR on RUclips (basically people making soft nice sounds) and I support several people who do that via patreon and RUclips. I talked with one ASMR artist who's been doing it for years. I asked her if it got easier with producing videos. She said, "no. It gets more difficult the better you become at it." That's a bummer, but at least I know what I'm facing. Her videos have become very good, but, in order for her to create that kind of quality, she has to do a lot of video work to do it.
My 2001 Silverado 2500 has a 6.0 liter V-8 that is a LTZ, I believe. What is the actual horsepower rating? It will scream, even with the 3/4 ton truck frame and body.
It didn’t go into production, there was no need for it once they canceled the Grand Sport lightweight Corvette. Oh, wait, you mean the Gen III Mopar Hemi…
A camaro with a 383, high stall, big tires. Man I love that torque. The LS seems to be the best overall of today, considering price point, availability, function, mods available.
I built a 383 for my 72 Chevelle SS in 1987. Had to use the 5.565 400 rods bc they didn't have a piston design that would take the big stroke with the 5.7" 350 rod. It had TONS of torque though and would turn 6200 anyhow!!! Loved that car!!!
I’ve seen 383 builds and they can run pretty good, although the 377 destroker has been overlooked and from what I’ve seen they can do circles around the 383 and sound beautiful doing it, and the throttle response on a good 377 is unbeatable
I'm definitely a true small block man. The L s they claim makes a good drag but I don't see it. My biggest problem with the Ls is it's harder for me to work on have to pull the heads to change cam or lifters and oil pump is harder to get out. But that's just my opinion the Ls I guess is a good engine but I just like the older small blocks. Very good video sir
You forgot the introduction of the roller small block v8 in I think 1987. It was still slow but at least a roller motor was kinda cool plus it switched to a 1 piece rear main seal which was a huge upgrade.
thank you so much for this perfect discribtion about chevy motors .... Love from IRAN to USA and General motors... your normally cars in streets is our dream in sleep🥰🥰🥰
Such awesome videos. 👌 Your spreadsheet was particularly excellent. Super clear with everything I wanted to know. Super well done! 👏 Totally with you on the IROC!
In 1967 I worked at a Pontiac store and one of the mechanics (Gary Seals) had a 65 Impala SS he bought new from Quality Chevy in Wichita.. I saw the engine under the hood as he was working on it and asked him if the motor stickers on the valve covers were real. He made it clear they were indeed real. It was a 327 motor with 425 horsepower on the sticker. 425! No one has ever talked about this motor I have ever seen. I did see motor stickers for sale at some aftermarket parts company in the early 80s that showed a 425HP 327 sticker, but I have never seen it again. Have you ever heard about this motor?
First, that was a fun vid! Our family cars had a 283 and 350, and I cut my gearhead teeth on SBCs in high school. They'll always have a place in my heart! However, I noticed that while addressing the debut of the 400s you showed a picture of the 402 BBC in the truck, which was also referred to and labelled as a 400.
My favorite engine will always be the 305 V8 engines they aren’t the powerhouse unlike the other SBC and BBC engines but they can have potential if they build
I exclusively build 305s, only because everyone says they aren't worth more than a boat anchor. A good friend of mine said I was wasting my money. Finished the (mild) build in my S10, took him for a ride and he couldn't stop giggling. Now it's a wild build. Forged internals, aluminum heads, sequential port efi, and 250 shot to follow. He won't be ready this time lol
Good video, but there was a part carry over from old small blocks to the ls. That is the rod bearings are the same part number. The rod journal on both cracks are the same
Me and my dad put a 305 in my 1972 Chevrolet Custom 10 truck 9 years ago and we got it out of a 1969 Chevy truck it feels like its making more power and torque than a stock engine.
You mention the SBC that GM never sold in a vehicle... the 383 stroker. The crate engne GM Performance sells is even better than the original home grown recipe. With no need to do a .030 over bore, and no leftover 400 cast cranks needing smaller main journals, they come with 4.0 bores, forged 3.80 stroke cranks, and a new block castings that already has rod clearance.
You forgot to mention the 97-99 350 4bolt main with the votec heads 4bolt vs 6 on the intake runner side, one of the most wanted for a carb conversion the infamous L31/L98
About 10 years ago I bought a 92 corvette LT1 I picked that car because it had decent HP and torque not great but I don't drive radical and as long as it looks mean and sounds mean I'm happy but the great thing about it the average Joe backyarder can still work on it once you start with the LS's things get complicated.
Old news now but ford does produce the 7.3 Godzilla truck engine offered to date. You mentioned that domestic car companies had no plans to produce any new version v8s.
My 383 rotating assembly needs to get back from the machine shop time now. It's the last part I'm waiting on. 86 IROC 383 forged everything with a TKX and hit of the juice.
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My dad had a '79 Caprice Classic with a 350 4bbl. It would not stop! I swear that car could have been taken into combat and still survive. One of my family's longest lasting cars.
That was one of the nicest cars Chevy made
painted in the G M Good Wrench #3 colors
My ‘72 Chevy van had a 305 with 3-on-the-tree. That engine and transmission were flawless.
The 350 in the 70 1/2 Z-28 was down rated 10 horse power to 360 because Corvette was the flagship performance line, so nothing that was the same cubic inches was always lower.
The 350 built right is tough as an anvil. What held them all back was the cylinder heads. The technology just was not there. This is what makes the LS so good. It's just an air pump, it has to breath. The LS head just keeps getting better.
5.3 were designed solely to breathe better than 350s
Henry Smith, hell yeah
I had nothin but problems 🤷♂️ But Oldsmobile and ford v8s I made plenty of and they all ran great.
Thank you for sharing this. I found it very interesting. There was a time when I could rattle off all kinds of SBC trivia, but now in my late 50s, some of it has slipped my mind.
The first SBC that I ever built was a 307 in a 1969. I bought the car my senior year in high school in 1982 while working at a Shell gas station. Every one else was building 327s and 350s, but they had money that I didn't. I put a nice Crane cam inside it and a pair of Hooker headers. I also got an Edelbrock intake and used a Quadrajet carb. Everyone else was using Holley carbs, and I wanted to be different. I bought a book on tricking out Q-jets. (We didn't have the internet or RUclips then). I must have taken that carb apart a half dozen times before I got it right. After that I fell in love with Quadrajets. I finished off my 307 with an HEI distributor which was a tight fit in a Nova, followed by a GM 1 wire alternator.
True, my 307 powered Nova was not a quarter mile winner. But I enjoyed the end results because I did it all myself. The cam, headers, and intake were the only big investments. The Qjet, distributor and alternator came from wrecking yards. I drove the wheels off my Nova (figuratively speaking) for about five years before selling it. The guy who bought it didn't change a thing, he wanted to be odd like me and own a semi-built 307.
Owner of a 1996 LT4 Corvette. It's awesome.
Amen 😎😎😎
The beauty of the 350 is it's so simple to work on and improve with no frills.
Raced 302 in drags and 97 Vortec350 was bombproof. Great torque engine!
My 64 Malibu has the 283/ power glide. She's not fast or powerful by today's standards but is the sweetest little engine. Smooth as silk sounds fantastic and propels the little cruiser just fine. Only other sbc I'd want in it would be a 327.
I personally think the 283 is one of the best engines gm ever made
Amazing delivery on information. I have a 79 small-block 350 square body. After 2 g of rebuild it is almost Bulletproof. New cam intake headers and completely new electrical components for ignition. Its pushing about 330 hp rn my first build. Video. Great info.
The late 70s 305 was known for improperly hardened camshafts. My old man had a '77 C10, and GM paid for a cam replacement at about 40,000 miles. When I was in my teens the hot setup for "Limited Sportsman" at our local short track was a Chevelle with a 327. (Limited Sportsman cars had to be 351 CID or smaller, but there were almost no Fords.)
Good video! I caught one mistake. The 70 Lt 350 did make 370 h.p. in the Corvette. But made 360 h.p. in the Camaro! The difference was the exhaust flowed better in the Vette.
The most underrated motor is the small block 400 it's called the monster mouse,look David Bizarre up and you will see.👍 video
Did you mean to say (David Vizard) cause I didn't really find anything on David Bizarre you spoke of.
My friend just got a 95 c/k 1500 with a first gen Chevy small block CRATE, and the things a monster
You can thank Smokey's "Best Damn Garage in Town" for the development of the first small block chevys. GOD BLESS SMOKEY.
And Grumpy !! 😁
First time I have seen any of your vids... Excellent job linking all of this SBC history together in one story. Personally, I am not a fan of the latest electronic technologies in GM's or any other brand of engine. Coil on plug, sequential port FI ... great steps forward. Gas direct FI, variable cam timing, cylinder deactivation, stop / start... Complexity that costs more than it is worth, and potentially more troublesome over time IMHO.
Got my little 4.3L L99 up to 131 mph! Good little engine
The Vortec name first showed up on 4.3l SBC based V6 truck engines in the '80s and came from the swirl port head design
I was at SEMA in 2018. I talked with a GM engineer and asked him which LS/LT engine was the best. He said the LS3 is the best V8 GM has ever built and will probably be the best ever. The LTs were required to have a lot of cylinders deactivation tech that impaired overall design. He didn’t even mention the LS7.
The 327 seemed like an engine they could have done more with. An old lady in the neighborhood used to drive this 66 Malibu coupe kinda like a gasser setup but not as high and she liked to rev it. Seemed like a peppy motor.
My mom was lucky enough to own a ‘67 camaro with the 302, mechanic gave it to her when he messed up her push button Plymouth valiant.
I liked my ‘92 z28 L98, wouldn’t have LT swapped or LS swapped it.
Best engine of the ‘90s is the LT that came in the impala
1984 305 L69 was a great motor. I loved my Z28 5 speed. 190hp rated by GM but it truly was stronger. It never ever let me down and I put 120,000 km's on it before I sold it to a friend.
190 net hp
Idk why but GM undersells their engines. I have only been disapointed with a single engine.
@@caioaugusto3138 wich one?
@@jeffcolt9185 I haven't found the name of it but it is the 1.0L (1000cc) Chevette Júnior engine. 50hp at 6900rpm. For a 900kg car
@@caioaugusto3138 thanks
A comparison between the 6.2ls and 392 hemi would be sweet
i had an ls1 2 3 all great. still have an hci ls2. i also have an lt4.
Own 2 c10s both with 350s
Great job on this video!
I bet that the z28 will be called the e28 when cars go full electric and the z06 will turn into the e06 that’s just my thoughts I don’t know what will really happen just an opinion
I have a verity of versions of the 350 at my disposal. I have the old school 4-barrel carb 350 out of an 86 trans am, the famous l98 out of my 89 iroc-z, and the ls6 out of my 04 corvette z06. Each behaves like a different animal.
The carbed 1st gen engine is very much a dinosaur. Its easy to mod, maintain and sounds very old-school but, it also gets 7 miles to the gallon. Not great for a daily, especially with the recent prices.
The l98 is surprisingly a great motor, though people love to beat down on it only being "240" hp. This is mainly from the emissions restrictions that were put in place and they choke the poor engine so at any rpm higher than 4000 it falls on its face. Its super torquey from factory at 340lb/f and is a great street car. I went and took out all the emissions stuff thanks to the car being over 25 years old and grandfather laws allowing it in my state. The car runs a lot stronger now (and a lot louder too I might add), but I need to get it on a dyno so I can give you an actual number of increase. If you do plan on getting a 3rd gen like you said, it's not bad option to keep the l98 in it if you have one. If it has a 305, yeet that shit though, it's really bad.
The LS6 is probably the fanciest of the bunch, if you could call a pushrod V8 in modern times fancy. The all-aluminum setup makes it very fun on the throttle. Whoever made the decision to have headers on it from factory was a genius, or at least I think it's from factory. It can put around town calmly and contained, but then roar down the highway. The subtly and instant power anywhere on the powerband is what sells the ls6 for me.
All in all, I love all my cars and their great V8s. GM sure knows how to build them.
7mpg??? holy crap something is definitely wrong. i have a 1975 k20 flatbed with a 400 th400 and 4:10 gears and it still gets 10mpg. not sure whats going on there but if you're actually getting 7mpg something is definitely wrong. i have a 87 Camaro 3.42 gears and a tremec 5 speed with a 425hp 350. that got 21.5mpg on my last trip cruising 80mph with the AC on.
@@konnerkramer329 I haven't driven the car since 2018 but yeah motor wasn't running the best then. I probably would also get 10 if it was ok. The Camaro gets 20ish on the highway if I drive it nice and don't romp on it.
LT4 in 96 versus early 97-99 LS1 is a toss up. The LT4 actually puts out eerily similar torque and hp on a Dyno.
LS7????? Not listed
Great video slideshow.
I watched until you started making mistakes. You showed a big block called a small block, then you called the 4.3 a V8. Wikipedia just isn't a good place to get information...
Do a search for the vid titled 4.3L V6 VS 4.3L V8-WHICH OTHER GUYS MAKES A BETTER BUILDER? on Richard Holdener and get back to us.
Except the 4.3 he referred to in the Caprice IS a V8. It’s not the 4.3 V6 in the trucks that you’re thinking about.
GM can make a statement saying they’re ceasing all gas production all they want. I don’t see it happening. Not in my lifetime.
All I see is a political stunt to please the tree huggers
Most people don't know that Chevrolet had an overhead valve V8 in the TEENS,they deemed it too powerful and went with the overhead valve inline 6! You need to dig a little deeper next time.
Best engine’s ever.
My baby is an LS3 in a 2016 SS sedan. Looks like you forgot to discuss the 70-72 solid lifter LT-1...the best small block of the musclecar era.
I guessed 383 before you finished that sentence lol. 416 LT strokers are today’s equivalent. And they are beasts.
Also, the 305 of the 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s made around 230-300 ft/lbs of torque, depending on the year.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! ALL OF THEM A GREAT MOTORS FOR ANY HOT ROD.
what about the LT5???
No LT5? Not considered a small block? Is it because was built by Lotus?
It is considered a small block, guess he looked over it
Why does this guy act like a 383 was a factory engine? I run into people all the time that think this bastard motor was factory installed! Lol
Personally I don't think internal combustion engines are going anywhere. But that's me. I live in cold climate area and know the limits of batteries. It will be fun to see who actually gets it right.
A properly maintained and running internal combustion engine will start just fine in cold. Batteries are a problem. As well as starters. They make aftermarket, higher cranking capacity starters. And I've also seen people mount a second battery box in the vehicle, hooked up for double amperage. Cold affects pretty much everything metal, plastic, liquid and rubber. Electric cars will go dead faster in cold. One at least has the engine running to supply a margin of heat to the battery, as well as the alternator pushing a charge. I'm convinced that electric vehicle makers could engineer a charging system to charge electric vehicles batteries while driving. But the name of the game is to keep people dependant on big corporations. Be it big oil, coal or nuclear. It's my humble opinion that nuclear is the worst idea for producing energy. The by product from nuclear is hazardous for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years. We STILL cannot get within 10 feet of the "elephant foot" of the Chernobyl plant melt down, for more than 10 seconds. That happened in 1986. Fukishima happened in 2014. To this day, the entire quadrant of that island is pretty much abandoned. They continue to build 100,000 gallon tanks, every day and a half, to hold contaminated water being sucked out. That's just what they can capture. The rest is going into the ocean. There's an abandoned nuclear plant on the coast of California, storing radioactive waste. There are signs posted, saying that you cannot dig, bore, build, remove or disturb the area for another 22,000 years. Until we come up with something or some way of using spent nuclear material, it is far more hazardous in the present and long run, to the world as a whole. This is just my opinion. But many others agree.
@@MNJay1 Yes, poorly maintained Nuclear power plants are a huge risk. But for a well maintained and updated one, they hold very very little risk.
Only a year later and the evs are getting solutions to most the cold weather issues it seems. You are starting to see Tesla's as a very common choice for Denver/boulder/CO springs residents who have to make the treacherous i70 commute to the ski towns often. It's because of the Awd, and the ability to run the heat for an insanely long time on a charge when crashes inevitably happen and you sit idle for hours. When I saw this it made me think it's coming ready or not :(
@@samuelriester1419 my buddy bought one in the fall. It's new and it does lose about 30 percent in winter. Loves it but does not use it for trips just as a daily to work.
@@robertbeckler5058 oh yeah I know li batteries are less efficient in the cold, I was referring to concerns that they don't work at all or aren't reliable in the cold.
The LS is the most brilliant engine ever designed! Chevrolet took 50 years of knowledge and improved every shortcoming of the original small block and designed a bulletproof engine that just DID NOT brake or wear out. They put a special coating on the cylinder walls that just prevented any type of wear at all. I bought a 5.3 gen 3 LS1 with 220,000 miles on it and when i disassembled it it literally looked brand new inside with hone cross hatching still on the cylinder walls!!!! And putting the crank deeper into the block and 6 bolt Main caps just made it impossible to break it unless you way over rev it. If you keep the oil clean so you don't hurt the needle bearings in the lifters and rockers you could get a million miles out of one of them. You can make 900 hp without any short block upgrades! Just absolutely brilliant engineering until they started making them direct injection and compromising the valve train with lifters that bypass their pump to drop cylinders for fuel economy. Over engineering we will call that
LS1s are 5.7s
The 400 never had 330 hp, that was actually a 402 bb, but called the 400
I had rare 1970 chevelle Malibu with 400 and you right it’s actually 402 I bought it from Connecticut in 1984 for only $1700 and sold it 1992 for $2500 I don’t know about the hp but it was beast and fun to drive
You forgot the lsa,zl1,ls9......I have 2 lsa's one in my cts-v and one I swapped into my '74 nova......which has a 2.45" blower pulley which gets me 14lbs boost if the weather is right!!!!
The LS9 and LSA are Gen 4 small block’s and the ZL1 is a trim/package, not a engine.
@@loganamurray64 well what ever.....he didn't mention them...
@@trentdawg2832 Not super worth it, the LS9 is just a hand-built supercharged LS3 depending how you look at it and the LSA is just a second gen, shitter LS9. Also, why would he mention the ZL1 package in an engine video?
Those are all derivatives of the 6.2L gen 4 LS. He was just categorizing based off of displacement.
If it wasn't for the valve drop problem i would say the ls7 is the best engine ever made
I am a huge fan of the original gen 1 small block Chevy. I grew up with them. I built dozens of them, from mild to wild. Daily drivers to 1000+ hp drag race engines. They are a near perfect design, and if built right, using high quality aftermarket parts, can last half a million miles. I've never built or owned one that wasn't carbureted. I don't do EFI. Period. I have zero interest in any engine with a computer connected to it. I am a mechanic, not a computer technician.
Buick was such a genius in creating the small block, that the Detroit Diesel and Olds Diesel engines borrowed the architecture from both SBC and BOP blocks! As far as early fuel injection, the OBD system was so easy to diagnose, all you needed was a paperclip. The sensors themselves only read voltage differences, so as long as the PROM chip was reading good AFR, it would set timing and fuel trim accordingly. A SBC will run on a gas can under the hood, if need be.
1000+ carburated?
No force induction?
Pass the weed
@@lop8828 it’s definitely possible. I have a customer right now having us build a small block we suspect will be close to 1000. We suspect, but have never built the combo he’s asking us to, but I think it’ll be pretty close.
Gerald Scott ,
I have now and have built
283 , 307, 327 , and 350 small block Chevy engines
One of my 327 Engines has 12:1 compression, makes
450hp and cranks to the Moon , 11,000rpm before the valves start to float , pulls both front tires off the ground in first and second gear with a M-21 Muncie 4 speed Trans and 12 bolt posi
First Generation
And I was number 50 on your thumbs up
...I'm at 1.1 million on my 1981 chevy K10, 350 with a TH350, front seal just went, I survived the BC Floods
Cadillac had the flathead Monoblock V8s in the late 30s into the 40s as well.
Original small block ran through the model year 2000 get the facts right
Yeah, bought a Jeep with a 262 swapped into it. All you can do with those is either stare at them or remove them...... sigh.
America is no longer America.
Is the LS considered a small block or not ???
Yes they are. The LS1 and anything LS1 based are Gen 3 small blocks and anything LS2 or later that isn’t a LT is a Gen 4 small block
no
Always wanted to build a fat bore 302, got crazy power out of the fomoco 5.0 I built, be neat to compare.
The 302 is the biggest HP lier of the bunch but the 327 is probably the best street engine
The 327 was a very good engine. Good balance of usability with the spirit to get out and run. I feel it was really slighted in this video as the big part it was in development of Chevy performance. The jump up to 350 was primarily from different racing groups calling for the 355 displacement.
I will agree about the 383. That is a great all around performer also. I am surprised Chevy didn't take advantage of it. I am glad there are all the new bells and whistles to these newer motors to keep the hype up, and new motorheads involved in motorsports and auto customizing. But I am lost back in the olden dazes when you could actually see the engine parts such as heads and intake. Just more personality to the motor.
@@ronfullerton3162 the engine masters guy with the Dyno built a 475 hp 327, he is suck a good engen builder, just a career of experience.
a 360 hp 327 is vart doable with modern parts.
Even the Mythbusters couldn't kill a 350.
Fuck electric. I plan to purchase one more brand new V8 powered car and that should last me til the end.
Comment of the day. But I will say Ive driven a few electrics and they are insane fast. No cool sounds but you will beat any car off the line!
@@Olds_Pwr 100 years ago the government didn't force people to give up horse and buggies for a Model T.
Love these videos, so much knowledge 💯
Never mentioned the LT5? Dual overhead cam with 500 ish factory ponies if I remember correctly
Good point, I do mention in my LS vs LT video tho!
@@AutoGuild I think he's talking about the 90s lt5 from the zr1s that Lotus help build I believe.
Being you put the built 383 in there that gm really didn't build. I'd have added the sb2,sb2.2,ro7 that gm actually built for the Nascar series.
I have a 1955 Chevy with the original 265 and 2015 Corvette with the LT1. I've had 283, 327 305 and 4.8 and 325 LS engines also. I plan on keeping the 265 as long as I can.
It would be fun to port the heads on your 265 and put a aftermarket roller cam and z28 high rise style intake manifold to see how much more that would get out of it. Ram horn manifolds can flow well, so just add a turbo muffler they flow and sound good.
your torque rating for the lg4 305 is incorrect, its was around 230-240 ft/lbs
The 350 is Legend! And will be the only engine still running after the Apocalypse just ask Immortan Joe! Fury road! V8!!!!!!!
Sooner or later reality is going to hit the auto industry number 1 electric powered vehicles are not going to be here as fast as we all think. How are we going to charge all these electric vehicles when the government is trying to shut down power plants. You're not gonna be able to charge your car solely on on solar panels or windmills. I believe the gas powered engines are gonna be around a lot longer in new vehicles than what we think or what would be in led on to believe. The technology is not here yet or not affordability to the masses. It's going to have to be a technology to be where the car is able to charge itself while moving down the road or self charging systems. Because me personally if I want to drive across the United States I don't want to have to stop every 300 to 400 miles for 8 hours to charge my vehicle.
Those are the pragmatic concerns that I don't hear any of the cheerleaders addressing (and I'm not an EV hater).
Add to that battery life and replacement cost... Even if they get the cost down comparable to an ICE car, if it has a 7 year battery life (very optimistic with today's state-of-the-art), at the end it's 7 year depreciation period, it will essentially be worthless unless a 10k to 15k (or more) full battery pack is replaced.
Plus, with the initial ramp up, motors and batteries will be very hard to get in the aftermarket channels as the OEMs will be sucking up all the supply for the assembly lines.
Me thinks ICE cars will have a period of nice valuations around 2030.
We're not going to run out of electricity . Shutting down overly polluting coal fired power plants is good. Forcing cleaner more efficient power plants to be built in conjunction with renewable sources to create cheaper overall electricity rates.
Also charging times are getting faster every year.
The one comment I will definitely agree with you on is the best small block ever built the 290 horse 302 other than that you have a lot of your facts very confused .
The engine in the Chevy D series was also a flat plane crankshaft
Did not know that!
The LT1 is a beautiful engine, too bad it's overshadowed by the LS
It's cuz LS are really cheap. Tons of people put them in everything
You can't go buy an LT1 for $600 running and swap into nearly everything with bolt on parts. That's why.
@@RodknockRhett
Don't care, I prefer the LT1
@@alexbenjaminlubbers that's what you prefer. But cost per performance is the reason why it's overshadowed.
Over course the LT1 is a beautiful engine. Things were built to be looked at back then. Not so much anymore. Though, the LS can look amazing too.
the best 90's small block is the LT-1 alloy or iron heads,its a beast,and the last real small block 1955-1996
97 was the last year of the LT1/LT4. I got a LT1 in my 97' camaro😎
@@clifford_2zero7do people not know about the 1995 c4 zr1 with a refreshed LT5
@hunnterful1 The DOHC LT5 from the early 2000s is technically built by Lotus. But honestly not many people know about it. It was out only so briefly and in a rare model the ZR1 vettes of those early 90s years. 385-405hp. I hardly see any content on them I'd like to see what they're capable of modified.
@@clifford_2zero7 the new lt6 is cool for new tech but man i just want to own a late c4 zr1, people had specially made cams that produced decent power but those are 1 of 1 cams. Even if lotus did make it GM hated it because they started to discontinue parts for it.
@hunnterful1 look up the history of the LS1 and you'll realize why they never went further with anything like that.
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I like the graphics, but I have a suggestion. As they were passing by I did not know which you were talking about. Perhaps having some kind of indicator or something? I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be looking at. But, definitely some fantastic information. Thumbs up.
Great suggestion! I thought of that but decided it would have been too hard to do. Im still learning how to edit these videos : (
@@AutoGuild Great job on the vid. I hear you. I'm trying to get going on some vids, it's hard work. I like something called ASMR on RUclips (basically people making soft nice sounds) and I support several people who do that via patreon and RUclips. I talked with one ASMR artist who's been doing it for years. I asked her if it got easier with producing videos. She said, "no. It gets more difficult the better you become at it." That's a bummer, but at least I know what I'm facing. Her videos have become very good, but, in order for her to create that kind of quality, she has to do a lot of video work to do it.
My 2001 Silverado 2500 has a 6.0 liter V-8 that is a LTZ, I believe. What is the actual horsepower rating? It will scream, even with the 3/4 ton truck frame and body.
Wouldn't that be an LQ4 in the 01 Silverado?... If so, 345 hp
Thats a LQ4, they’re rated for 300hp. The blocks rated for 1300hp though by Summit Racing
Chevelle and malibu are the same.
Malibu and ss are packages both chevelles
Oh yeah. Good catch!
Good info 👍🏿
Bro.
Where is the Hemi?!
I know I know I need to do a Hemi video. I will add it towards the top of my to-do list. : )
It didn’t go into production, there was no need for it once they canceled the Grand Sport lightweight Corvette. Oh, wait, you mean the Gen III Mopar Hemi…
Hemi 6.4 episode coming soon?
@@Olds_Pwr I can tell you've never opened up a pair. It's cool man I'll let you know from first hand experience, yes, they are hemispherical.
Great job! Heard recently the Camaro is being discontinued to free up resources for the E transformation. Sad news indeed.
And dodges charger and challenger ffs kill me already
A camaro with a 383, high stall, big tires. Man I love that torque. The LS seems to be the best overall of today, considering price point, availability, function, mods available.
I built a 383 for my 72 Chevelle SS in 1987. Had to use the 5.565 400 rods bc they didn't have a piston design that would take the big stroke with the 5.7" 350 rod. It had TONS of torque though and would turn 6200 anyhow!!! Loved that car!!!
I built a 383 for my pulling truck, aboutpull the tongue off my car trailer!
383 in my 67 Camaro. ..
I’ve seen 383 builds and they can run pretty good, although the 377 destroker has been overlooked and from what I’ve seen they can do circles around the 383 and sound beautiful doing it, and the throttle response on a good 377 is unbeatable
@@matteblackexterior I mean, probably gonna depend on what parts are in it.. as in definitely gonna matter what parts are in it.
I'm definitely a true small block man. The L s they claim makes a good drag but I don't see it. My biggest problem with the Ls is it's harder for me to work on have to pull the heads to change cam or lifters and oil pump is harder to get out. But that's just my opinion the Ls I guess is a good engine but I just like the older small blocks. Very good video sir
You forgot the introduction of the roller small block v8 in I think 1987. It was still slow but at least a roller motor was kinda cool plus it switched to a 1 piece rear main seal which was a huge upgrade.
thank you so much for this perfect discribtion about chevy motors .... Love from IRAN to USA and General motors... your normally cars in streets is our dream in sleep🥰🥰🥰
I like how you said “ don’t expect an all new V8” even though GM just released the 632 lol
I grew up on the gen 2 lt1. Awesome video here!
FYI - the 283 was available in all cars in 57. The FI version made 283 hp
Such awesome videos. 👌
Your spreadsheet was particularly excellent. Super clear with everything I wanted to know. Super well done! 👏 Totally with you on the IROC!
In 1967 I worked at a Pontiac store and one of the mechanics (Gary Seals) had a 65 Impala SS he bought new from Quality Chevy in Wichita.. I saw the engine under the hood as he was working on it and asked him if the motor stickers on the valve covers were real. He made it clear they were indeed real. It was a 327 motor with 425 horsepower on the sticker. 425! No one has ever talked about this motor I have ever seen. I did see motor stickers for sale at some aftermarket parts company in the early 80s that showed a 425HP 327 sticker, but I have never seen it again. Have you ever heard about this motor?
First, that was a fun vid! Our family cars had a 283 and 350, and I cut my gearhead teeth on SBCs in high school. They'll always have a place in my heart!
However, I noticed that while addressing the debut of the 400s you showed a picture of the 402 BBC in the truck, which was also referred to and labelled as a 400.
My favorite engine will always be the 305 V8 engines they aren’t the powerhouse unlike the other SBC and BBC engines but they can have potential if they build
I exclusively build 305s, only because everyone says they aren't worth more than a boat anchor. A good friend of mine said I was wasting my money. Finished the (mild) build in my S10, took him for a ride and he couldn't stop giggling. Now it's a wild build. Forged internals, aluminum heads, sequential port efi, and 250 shot to follow. He won't be ready this time lol
Man at the demos you know know your going to hear a 350 roaring to like 8grand one last year shot a bunch of NOS thing sounded nutty
Good video, but there was a part carry over from old small blocks to the ls. That is the rod bearings are the same part number. The rod journal on both cracks are the same
Me and my dad put a 305 in my 1972 Chevrolet Custom 10 truck 9 years ago and we got it out of a 1969 Chevy truck it feels like its making more power and torque than a stock engine.
I had an 89 RS five speed, T-Top Camaro, sans mufflers. I miss it and want one again.
You mention the SBC that GM never sold in a vehicle... the 383 stroker. The crate engne GM Performance sells is even better than the original home grown recipe. With no need to do a .030 over bore, and no leftover 400 cast cranks needing smaller main journals, they come with 4.0 bores, forged 3.80 stroke cranks, and a new block castings that already has rod clearance.
Great Video and thanks so much for making it!! Cheers!
Hey I got a 1988 Corvette. Now I’m a bit happy I got the best of the L98s
As a gm tech, great video, i learned:) thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. The best chanal to who need learn
You forgot to mention the 97-99 350 4bolt main with the votec heads 4bolt vs 6 on the intake runner side, one of the most wanted for a carb conversion the infamous L31/L98
About 10 years ago I bought a 92 corvette LT1 I picked that car because it had decent HP and torque not great but I don't drive radical and as long as it looks mean and sounds mean I'm happy but the great thing about it the average Joe backyarder can still work on it once you start with the LS's things get complicated.
I have 2 of them a tbi 350 in a 88/89gmc and a vortec love both of them.
Love these videos
Small Block....love the 327. Big Block....love the 427. Hated.....the 305 ''Smog Dog''!
Old news now but ford does produce the 7.3 Godzilla truck engine offered to date. You mentioned that domestic car companies had no plans to produce any new version v8s.
My 383 rotating assembly needs to get back from the machine shop time now. It's the last part I'm waiting on. 86 IROC 383 forged everything with a TKX and hit of the juice.