Buick nailhead engine family 322, 264, 364, 401, 425
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2023
- Today on what’s it’s like, engine episode Wednesday Buick nailhead engine Family 322, 264, 364, 401, and 425
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Buick is an interesting manufacturer. Their demographic target buyer really didn’t appreciate the engines, rather, they looked to the understated prestigious Buick had. But, interestingly, data shows they were the most loyal to the brand, and were so because the engines were so reliable. The buyers may not have understood every thing you said in this episode, but they knew it was quality.
Totally agree
The Buick slogan back then: "When better cars are built, Buick will build them"...Buick owners have consistently made the brand the most satisfying vehicle, for many years.
My dad's '65 Wildcat was very responsive with an abundance of low end torque. I loved driving it until one morning, I hit the throttle and instantly busted the driver side motor mount which then slammed the throttle wide open. I didn't know what in the hell was going on and I was in traffic as the car continued to accelerate. I managed to get the transmission out of gear and the engine settled back down on the broken motor mount and released the throttle. Man, that was a close call, especially since I was right across the street from Disneyland and had to drive 400 miles back to San Jose. The trip back was harrowing as I had to make sure to apply the throttle very gingerly. Me and my dad replaced the motor mount and rigged a steel cable to restrict engine movement in case the mount broke again. We were very lucky as I had my girlfriend and her two little kids in the car.
Thank you so much for sharing that story =)
Got my great grandpas rusty old 62’ Invicta. Maybe sometime this eternity I’ll get it back nice. The oil pan had ~2” water on the oil and all it took to clean the crank/rods up was a light polish. Tough stuff
Good review of the Nailhead. They were used in dragsters where a few of them had the intake and exhaust ports swapped. It was awesome to see the exhaust pipes coming out of the valley with flames shooting out of them.. More commonly known is Tommy Ivo's 4 Nailhead engines in one car.
The A12/Sr71 Blackbird used a pair on Buick Nailheads to start the jet engines up until the late 60s. Those engines are hard to find now because THE USAF had to search every junkyard to find old engines for replacement parts since they were discontinued. Then they changed over to LS6 454s after they couldn't find any parts anymore. The ground crews said the nail head had a distinctive sound when spooling up the jet engines because of the long duration cams in them.
Awesome information I didn’t know that =)
Thats correct, because they needed a strong and high rpm engine ! Yes you heard right .....high rpm and high torque enginge !! .... to be able to srew up the both SR71 blackbird turbofans till they run by itself !! I drove many years 401s Riviera's and nobody could understand why these stock engine runns 6000 rpm .
I loved to screw it up with 1. Gear(TH400) till 65 mph and left the gaspedal.... so it felts and sounds like somone wanna suck off your pents ! OmG 😂😂 .....so I really love these unbreackable engine for ever !!😊
I believe Buick originally designed the engine this way, with the reversed rocker arms & horizontal valve covers, to keep it narrow enough to fit into the late 53's engine bay intended for a straight 8. I interestingly in 53 if you bought the base model ( 40) it had the 263 L8 with 6 Volt electrics, but all more expensive models used the 322 V8 & were 12 Volt
Great information thank you so much for sharing all that
My dad had my dream car now... 1964 Buick Riviera 465 wild cat with two speed power glide
I had a 64 Buick Wildcat with a 401-445 Nailhead . Awesom e engine.Very smooth running,great power & very reliable!!!
Awesome they are great overlooked underappreciated engines
I’m currently daily driving a ‘64 Wildcat myself. It’s by far the smoothest and most comfortable ride I’ve ever had in any car. Can’t beat a classic Buick!
I agree!!! The 64 Buick Wildcat was a superb vehicle in every way!!! I had three Wildcats,two Rivs, & two Deuce & 1/4's & I liked the Wildcats the most!!! I hope yours lasts a long time!!!
65 wildcat. I had a 66 inthe early 70,s excellent car engine was indestructible.
l like these engine reviews. This nailhead engine is a very underrated beauty.
Totally agree super stout engine they are very underrated for what they are.
Glad you dig engine episode Wednesday I absolutely love covering engines on Wednesday hump day lol
I remember taking that photo of the 401. That was right after I switched it from a factory 2barrel carb to a factory 4 barrel setup. Sadly about a year later that radiator hose blew and the hot antifreeze discolored the paint on top of the engine. Doesn't look as nice now but still runs fantastic. That made my day when I saw the photo pop up lol
Awesome thank you so much for giving a story behind that picture
Electra and another Electra ,please. I bet parking spots were a lot wider back than because these cars are huge. Great stuff as always.
Glad you dig this episode and channel awesome choices =)
I think I have seen parking space lines redone/blacked out and then repainted to make the spaces narrower than before.
Enjoyed this!👍 Brings back memories of Dad’s 1953 Super V8 hardtop. The Dynaflow wasn’t going to win drag races, but it was well nigh indestructible. When he had the two lane blacktop to himself, Dad would cruise between 95 and 105 mph. That changed when the car got frozen one winter, then tore the rear shocks loose on chuck holes. It would take the rear a minute to stop bouncing at a stop sign.😁 If you had one today, it would have built in theft protection. No thief would figure out that you started it by turning the key on in Park, then pushing the accelerator hard to the floor.😅
Very cool memories!! 👍👍
Thank you so much for sharing those awesome memories =)
Great stories
Not supposed to adjust that starter switch so you have to floor it. Proper adjustment is half throttle activates the starter.
Thanks. That makes more sense.@@michaelbenardo5695
Yup although at least in '56 you're supposed to floor it on hot starts because full throttle actuates a choke unloader. Half throttle for cold starts. Sort of unintuitive, but these engines always start real quick so you shouldn't need to worry about pumping the gas anyway
I'm the proud owner of a 401 nailhead, nestled under the hood of a 1960 Buick (one of which is pictured @4:46) . It sure does make all the torques (445) and horsepowers (325).
That’s awesome =)
A really good friend of mine has a Buick GS which was featured on the channel and he let me drive it and I just could not believe the power that that car had it was awesome
What model Buick do you have?
Yes, the Wildcat. I actually worked on several Wildcats at the Jones Buick dealership in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio.
Awesome =)
Another great one! The nailheads were the sweetest engines of the fifties in my opinion. High revving and smooth. Thanks for bringing focus to this under-appreciated line of engines. Andy
You bet love engine episode Wednesday’s The goal is to hopefully cover a lot of the engines off the beaten path it’s just fighting information on them not turning out to be difficult like I would love to cover the sleeve valve engine one day in detail I also wanna do an episode on Franklin engines as well as continental engines but that would probably be an overview of their companies because it would be really hard to do one or two engines from that from either of those companies information it’s just spotty at best
@@What.its.like. Each of those definitely deserves a full episode. I'd still love to see an overall timeline on engine development, similar to what you did on automobile eras. I don't think many people really understand how auto engineering developed over time. When you look at HP or torque per liter of displacement or per pound of weight you have to wonder how things changed so dramatically in such a short timeframe. I know you can't do every idea that comes up, and these engine episodes must take a ton of work, but I think it's something nobody else has explored in depth. Andy
Totally I’ll look into doing one like that =)
WYR 1: Rivera WYR 2: 1960 Electra. I had a 60 Buick Invicta custom 2 door hardtop. Red interior with bucket seats and padded console, fully load with every option. It was/is my favorite car out of the 50 I've owned, even over my 73 Porsche 911T Targa, bought new, still own nearly 100% still original.
Awesome choices thank you so much for sharing your car with us it sounds like it was really awesome =)
A little know thing,58,59 Chevrolet medium duty trucks offered the 322 as one of the engine options along with the 348,and the 283, along with the 235,261 Chevy 6s.Its also been rumored that the Air Force used the 425 nailhead to start the engines of the SR 71. By the way another great presentation, enjoyed it very much.No question for me,The Rivera.
Awesome information =)
Thank you so much for sharing that great choice
Glad you dig this episode
TV Tommy Ivo dug these mills so much, he put 4 of them on his Wagon master. 2000 HP, smoked all 4 tires down the track. What a showman this cat was. I think the air force even used Nailheads to start the SR 71 Black bird,,,,I think. I remember when I was in grade school, my dad had a 64 Wildcat convertible with the 401 to pull.....a horse trailer. That was the coolest looking car.
I saw pictures I totally forgot to include pictures it looked wicked thank you so much for sharing it with us
I passed my driver's license test driving a 1959 Buick LeSabreConvertible! It had the 364 engine...good torque, but the strange Dynaflow transmission was somewhat lethargic, compared to other GM large cars--they had the Hydromatic transmission. But the styling of the 59 Buick was very radical, especially for Buick!
Awesome
I totally love the 59 Buick design I don’t know if I like that one more or if I like to 60 more I think I’m leaning more towards the 59 because of the instrumentation.. they look like nothing else and with the backdrop of all of the appliances out there they just look great.
Love the 401 in my '66 deuce.
Sweet, these are cool engines =)
Only passenger-vehicle V8s that ever came with full-counterweighted (8 counterweights) crankshafts!
I would rather a Buick from the mid 50s. My parents had a 56 century 2 door. I loved that car!
Great write in with Sentimental value
Yes 425 was standard on the 1964 and 1966 Riviera, but in 1963 and 1965 the 401 was standard. The 401 "regular gas" two bbl engine of the early 1960s was called Wildcat 375. The 401 premium gas two bbl engine was called the Wildcat 410 and the 401 4bbl engine was called the Wildcat 445. Incidently the 1966 340 4bbl engine was also called the Wildcat 375.
Thank you so much for sharing that clarification I was going to try to tackle that but decided not to Buick made it very confusing with their engine naming system during that time, based off of torque figures
A dealer back in late 1966, talked my dad into trying out a 66 Skylark convertible for one day...naturally I took it for a drive..Wow!...it had the 4014bbl engine, being not as large as the biggest Buicks, the car was very fast!...325hp, it compared in power to a GTO. My dad eventually bought a 1967 Wildcat, with the "new" 360hp V8...Even being a heavy car, that Wildcat was really quick! Dad owned that car for over 24 years, and put well over 300,000 miles on it...went through two sets of U-joints--that was the only repairs needed to the drive train...That car was rock-solid!
People forget that Buick was once a premium car right up there with Cadillac and Olds. I had a 62’ Electra 225 and it was the smoothest running V8 I have known to this day. 401 nailheads were the best.
that’s awesome I guess you still don’t have that what did you trade that car for
Buick was traditionally just under Cadillac in the hierarchy,Olds next,then Pontiac just above Chevrolet (although I think Pontiac resembled Cadillac more closely in build quality than it did Chevrolet) also there were some other cars introduced and soon after dropped such as Viking and LaSalle ,I think LaSalle was a fine car with an engine that was basically a sleeved down Cadillac V8 back when Cadillac had one of the better flathead V8s ever manufactured.
My favorite engine of all time, the 401/Wildcat 445.
They are super underrated I haven’t seen one in years really nice lines
Great vid, love the Buick Nailhead! 🤜🤛
Me too they’re great engines have a nice rumble to them
@@What.its.like. 🙂 👍
In 1966, I had a '66 Riviera with the 425 CID Nail Head. In 1967, the engine was replaced with the more conventional out board valves design. When it first came out, The engine failed a lot. In my car, I abused that engine by over reving it. It's a wonder that it didn't fail. It only got ~ 6 MPG. A really heavy car but I got for a good end of year price. bought a Pinto afterwards because of the gas shortage.
Great information thank you so much for sharing all of that as well as your experience and what you traded it for did you get rid of the pinto after they started having all those problems with getting rear ended?
Buick's are my all time favorite cars! It would be hard to choose between these Buick's but I would say the Riviera as I owned a 65 with the 425 when I was a 20 y/o. That being said if I won the lottery I would get a 54 Skylark 1st (I like better than the 53). I currently have 2 322's sitting in my basement and I'm 68 and on a 68 LeSabre 400 2 door with the 280 hp 350. Also have a 455 that I'm probably putting in it. Buick's forever!
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Do a show on the 1963 Pontiac Tempest Lemans It is a truly unique car with an engine called 326 but was actually 336 cubic inch a transaxle sourced from Corvair no hump in the floor 4 wheel independent suspension & pretty fast for the day
That is a car that I’ve been looking for all year I haven’t been able to find one but also I would love to drive that car because of the unique transmission transaxle thing.. I can’t believe how hard that car is to find now
The 1965 Buick Wildcat.
Awesome choice =)
The 2nd gen small block LT1 is a pretty good engine. Unfortunately it wasn't made long enough for cheap aftermarket parts
I choose the '63 Rivvie, my uncle had one in black, the first of several.
Those cars look timeless they look epic against anything now
Your uncle has great taste =)
WYR: the Riviera and the Skylark.
This brought back an old memory. A friend of mine had a Buick that was listed as a 445. Instinctively we knew it wasn’t the cubic inches of displacement, but we couldn’t figure out why Buick would call it the 445. Finally learned that in those days Buick used the torque rating for their engine nomenclature. I think that went away after the 401.
In any event, great content as always thank you ~ Chuck
Great choices =)
Thank you so much for sharing that memory I was going to try to dissect all of that and I really should’ve because Buick had some really misleading names like wildcat 465, as well as B 12,000 there was a part in the video where I said what that was but it didn’t make sense to me that each cylinder could make 12,000 foot pounds and I figured it would lead to stuff in the comment section so I didn’t I took it out..
was able to find an advertisement piece that explained it.
It seems like advertisement jargon but thank you so much for sharing that memory with us =)
59 and 60 Buick's ---- Great Cartman by the way , I do a mean Hank Hill
Haha yeah
=) great choices
Really enjoyed this one, Jay. Thanks for all your hard work making these videos.
Thank you =) glad you dig this episode and channel
I still think it's a good combustion chamber design.
I'll admit this. When you said that the engine was lightweight at about 600 pounds, my sick mind immediately thought of the Queen song, 'Fat Bottom Girls'.
Hahaha nice =)
I owned a 1966 Wildcat as a four door hardtop. It had the 401 with a four bbl. What a great car. I've always been a Buick guy, though, today I drive a Cadillac.
Sweet =) wildcats are super underrated
Sliding rear window?
Riviera/ Riviera..........425 cu in. Thanks Jay!
Awesome choices =)
Very informative. Unique configuration with the pushrods on the outboard side of the rockers. Also looks like a pretty deep skirted block.
If would be neat to see a comparison of all the big block engines, 455, buick 455 pontiac, 455 olds, 454 chevy, 460 ford, and 440 chrysler. Plusses, minuses, differences in function, layout, design purpose
TV Tommy Ivo liked 'em. easy to work on
Hi Jay tough choice this time as the riviera’s are a work of art but I’ll take the wildcat and the 53 skylark
I was thinking the same I was like man this is gonna be hard the ones of the wildcat are really something, I used to see those all the time I haven’t seen one of those in a very very long time I’ve been looking for one to do
I'm partial to the '65 Wildcat as my dad had a 1966 model that I occasionally drove as a teen. The torque and acceleration were phenomenal.
Even at near 100K of miles on the car, I easily got it up to 115 mph when racing a classmate on the freeway. Could the car have gone faster? That was as fast as I needed to go to win the race.
Great memories thank you so much for sharing that awesome story..
I saw a guy yesterday flying through the country and a Tesla with his phone in front of his face he must’ve been on auto pilot or at least I hope he was because he didn’t have a care in the world of walking in front of him and that’s unfortunately that’s what’s going to happen to the driving experience when you drove cars back in the day you actually had to pay attention to what you’re doing.
I have a 52 Chevy 1 ton truck and that vehicle you can’t text and drive there’s too much going on. It’s really hard to have a phone conversation and drive because it’s really loud in there I believe cars are getting too isolated people feel like they’re not even driving and that’s why people are having car accidents because they’re not paying attention
Oops, just started watching minutes before you ended. Lol. Nice ending tho. 🙂 I will catch the whole thing tomorrow.
Haha yeah I just like to have fun at the end with something random lol
Had a 57 special. Lathered in chrome!
Awesome what did you think of the car?
I'll take the Rivieras!
Awesome choices =)
Hi Jay!: Was fun to see the history of the famous "nailhead" Buick! As always learned a lot! WYR#1 going to be the Riv, it's sweet! #2 I don't know why but I REALLY like the 1960 Buick design! So, I'm picking it!
=) Great choices glad you dig this episode I love both of 59 and 60 given the choice between the two of them I don’t know which one I like more the only downer is the automatic transmission if you could put a manual behind it that would be awesome.. those cars are great
You could get a manual in the LeSabre, so it would be easy to put one in one of the other models.
Need to have a competition between the Oldsmobile 425 and the Buick Wildcat 425,I think the Olds would win in an endurance run or last longer on a dyno if both engines were set up running at their maximum power output but the Buick would probably win in a drag race. Especially if it had the factory headers that I think some of them had.
After 1967 did beancounters end Oldsmobile's forged crankshaft use in favor of a casting?
Early 400s,425s,and even 330s more rugged than the later 455 and 350 (Oldsmobile) Not to mention the lightened 307 and 401 although in neutered low compression low powered form those engines gave quite reliable service certainly much better than Cadillac's "HT 4100"
any of those old generation Oldsmobile and Buick engines were very unlikely to "blow" when driven by the typical conservative drivers who usually bought those "Senior Models"
I think Oldsmobile internal documents actually referred to the 88,at least the top "Delta" model and the 98 as "Senior Models"
Awesome information =) and insight
65 Riviera all day - 401 motor
Sweet =)
65 GS with 401, my favorite (Skylark)
Awesome choices Great write in
My parents went through three 401's in their 1966 LeSabre. It was forever throwing connecting rods. They put-up with the thing for only two years. Absolute junk. They never bought another Buick.
That’s crazy I remember somebody else telling me that too you must’ve got a bad one.. thank you so much for sharing that story as well as your experience with this engine really appreciate it =)
The 364 and 401 were the very best. The 425 lacked meat and usually failed early. 64 Riv with a 425 was the fastest. My choice? 1960, 1966 Wildcat (401) and any First-Gen Riv.
Sweet choices and insight =)
Talk about the 215/300/340/350 Buick engines.
Awesome we will definitely cover those =)
1965 Rivera 59 Invicta
Awesome choices
If I understood this video, it stated the highest HP of the 322 being the 1955. But the 1956 Century and Roadrmaster engine produced 255 HP. That is greater than the 1955's highest HP rating.
my uncle has a 65 gs with the 425 dual quad
Awesome car I got to drive one last year really Experience
My 67 Sportwagon has a 340. It was only made in 66, and 67 and was used in the Skylark GS as well. They ARE torque monsters. They don't rev like a Chevy. Here's a look at it -
ruclips.net/video/oFga8Q69OUw/видео.html For today's choices, I'd take both Rivieras . My other Buick was a 73 Riviera GS boat tail. I towed my 67 Chevelle SS to the drags with it.😀
Awesome
Thank you so much for posting that link I definitely checked it out it’s a super stellar wagon man I love the fact that it has the vista top =)
I would rather-Wildcat and Skylark!
Sweet choices =)
In both cases the Rivieras.
=) great choices
First choice the 59 Buick, the second, 65 Rivera GS.
Awesome choices those are both excellent cars actually all six of those choices I thought that it would be a really hard choice I love the lines of the wildcat even though it’s a big car =)
@@What.its.like. Like the 68 wildcat coupe even better, much sleeker car with fender skirts, looks better than the Pontiac , Chevy and Olds coupes.
Great episode Jay. Nine minutes went by in about three minutes. It was interesting to watch how those Nailhead V8's got more and more powerful as the speed race among the major car makes intensified during the 1950's and also1960's. They sure were powerfully built engines for their time -and big too maxing out at 400 cubic inches.
As for WYR, since I was admiring that light blue 1963 Buick Riviera at 5:02 I would most certainly take that as my first choice, and then it would be hard not to chose the '53 Buick Skylark for the second choice. I am not much of a fan of mid 1950's Buicks, though I know a lot of people are, but in my book it is a rare and collectable car worth quite a lot nowadays.
Awesome choices thank you so much for sharing all that insight and information greatly appreciate it =)
I think I want Brad Hamilton's blue 60 Buick sedan, with Phoebe Cates riding shotgun! 😁
Sweet =)
Hello 👋 good buddy Jay good 👍 to hear you talk my friend it's been a while since I have been able to watch any RUclips I've been extremely busy taking care of my uncle he is currently in the hospital now doing better when the Dr's gave him hours to live a couple weeks ago he is doing better it's a miracle but anyway I have lost a few senior neighbors since I last talked to you and almost lost my oldest brother to what they called a widow maker heart attack I reckon if he hadn't of taken some Bayer aspirin just before he left home to go to the hospital he wouldn't be here is what the doctor said. But he isn't overweight and works hard everyday and never had any warning signs at all it just came on him suddenly. His wife drove him to the er and they airlifted him 40 miles to Lexington and couldn't have gotten there any sooner is what they said..I hope you are doing well jay.
I’m so sorry to hear that I’ll send a prayer to the man upstairs for you and your family =)
Very rare 401 and/or 425 car with 4 speed instead of the horrid Dynaflo would be very interesting to drive
1965 car might have been available with Nailhead and proper Turbohydramatic 400 transmission
I had thought that these were undersquare engines but from the dimensions given they are actually oversquare (short stroke)
I got to drive to Riviera GS with a turbine automatic it was a three speed that car turns into a totally different animal if you shift it manually.. really fast =)
I drove a 56 with 322 dynaflow and was surprised it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be tons of torque
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Buick gs
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1959 Buick Electra,1960 Buick Electra
Sweet choices =)
465 wild cat in a 1964 buick Riviera loved i loved that big lobster boat sounding bitch two speed power glide
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Did you do a straight 8 Buick episode, or any of the pre 50s inline 8s, nailhead had such a distinctive look valve cover narrow and straight up ,seems like a compromise design but torque is essential in family cars to get up to speed without effort instead of high speed
Yes here is all the engines to date
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Here is Buick straight right specifically
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65 Wildcat
65 GS Rivera
I owned a 62 Buick Invicta rag top with a 401 4 barrel. The nail head was a strong engine and I had zero issues with it. It made plenty of power and lots of torque. It would move that big rag top down the road.
Sadly, it was coupled to IMO one of the worst transmissions ever put in a US automobile the mushbox dynaflow.
Awesome choices =) yeah it’s a pity they didn’t offer a manual it did get a little better in you had the turbine trans which was a three speed
A friend of mine has Buick rivera GS and let me drive/shift manually shifting manually turns it into a completely different animal
Sr 71 program used most of the engines up
Would you rather... I'll take the Electra in both cases. Both cars can seriously do The Monster Mash.
Awesome choices I love doing something random at the end
#1. Buick Wildcat. #2. 65 Riv GS. I am NOT a fan of convertibles. But a 1960 Electra 225 hardtop would be great.
I tried to make a would you rather hard all of those are stellar choices =)
Gimme the 59.......
Awesome choices
WYR: All of them so I can have varying driving experiences.
Those engines probably sound great, but they aren't the 426 Hemi, T-head, or knucklehead designs. The knucklehead may be a Harley-Davidson engine, but it's easy to identify them by sound. When motorcycle guys hear a knucklehead, they start drooling. I said "probably" because I've never heard a nailhead.
Awesome
What if I was to tell you I have a 1957 Buick super hard top with the 364
1965 Wildcat
1963 Riviera
=) awesome choices
you can 600hp out of the Nailer 400's... Smokey Yunik did in 1964....
Smokey is a legend =)
I have a 1965 Lesabre 400 sport coupe with a 300 cu. in. & 3 speed auto ,after looking it up in my old Motor manual it seems to contradict what you have said as to the year of the 300 cu.in. engine.
The 300 isn’t in the nailhead family different engine family small block Buick
But there is tons of conflicting information as far as dates go
In both scenarios I have to go with the Riviera. Although I like the '60 Buick.
My father drove two '54 Buicks when I was really young. I wonder if either had this engine? Anyway, good video as usual.
I think by 54 the straight eight was gone if it was a special it would have the 264 all others had the 322
I got to drive a 56 with the 322 it was cool the starter was on the gas pedal and would only start in park
Great story awesome memories thank you so much fir sharing them
Great choices
One of the '54s was a Special, the other was (I think) a Super. On the Special, the starter switch was underneath the dashboard, next to the parking brake.
I wonder if all those cars (Packard had some of them) with electric starter buttons under the gas pedals had a lockout or other backup switch to make it impossible to engage and destroy the starter by hitting the start button during,say,an attempt at a high speed passing acceleration. I think not a good idea to have starters like that since wide open throttle is not good during a cold start before the engine has had a chance to establish oil pressure and push air out of the galleys/oil distribution passages. Might have contributed to some of the many cars you used to see on the road trailing blue oil smoke going down the road when the car only had less than 100k or 80k miles on it.
Some GM cars in earlier times may have not have had the electric starter solenoid switch but rather a starter pedal that when pushed down with a certain decent amount of force overcame a spring load,operated a shift fork that threw the starter pinion into engagement with the flywheel/ring gear,then at the final bottom of the pedal travel closed a heavy set of switch contacts that fed the battery power to the starter motor. I used to think that that was Kettering's famous invention,one of the Ketterings may have first engineered it but I think now that the famous first electric Kettering start on a Cadillac was different,a two way generator/motor that cranked the engine by means of its heavy belt drive. Same principle as on a Yazoo Master Mower with an electric start "Wisconsin" engine and a starter battery. 1950 Pontiac had a push button to operate the starter located near the headlight switch. @@What.its.like.
I think it had some sort of cancel out switch cause I tried to start the car in neutral and it would not start it would only start in park so you couldn’t activate the starter in drive only in park when moving the selector it took quite a bit of effort and it made a really cool noise whenever it did it I clicked every single one.
I worked at the Classic Car dealership last year we had that car for two weeks and it was gone I have a picture of it next to a Ferrari outside I’ll share that it was from a year ago
@@davidpowell3347 There are a couple safeties. One's a vacuum switch on the carb; there's a steel ball that sits on switch contacts in a plastic cylinder at rest. When the engine fires the idle vacuum draws the ball up off of the contacts. The second involves some sort of voltage variability on the generator. I forget exactly how it works.
All Electra. 🇺🇸🍺
Sweet =)
65 wildcat and 60 Electra 😊
401 were outstanding motors ... Never😢 pushed the 425 ???
We pulled the Buick 300 aluminum head 4 barrel out of mid 60s Skylark Special and put the 401 in the skylarks...
Then you put the buick 300s in Vegas or Chevy Luv trucks 😉👌..
If you want a car from the factory for fun?? look up 1975 Chevy Monza with a
4.3 V-8 😂 smoged pathetic under bored 350!! 🤯 Drop a 400 out of a Impala bolts in with no modifications 🤔same weight and the brakes didn't need upgrades 😱
Great Sleeper 😊.. great episode 👏👏
🥶Screw you guys I'm going home 👉👉. I killed Kenny ...... 😂✌️
Hahaha I’ll have to say that in Cartman‘s voice I want to do an electric episode where it talks about all of the mess and how electric cars are just a giant lie that one’s going to take a long time to put together though they’ll probably come out around Christmas or December I’m gonna wait until December to do that one.. I want to do a ton of research and make that one until like a mini documentary not saying that all of these videos aren’t many documentaries I want that one to be a really good episode.
Great information thank you so much for sharing all of that insight I really appreciate it
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@@What.its.like. Toyota has electric car figured out 900 mile range on the new batteries and a robotic drive thru changing the battery in 5 min for a fully charged one ..
Which direction do we proceed for electricity ???? Big Question ⁉️😦
Buick 215 aluminum V8.
That one is definitely in the pipeline. I believe we’re doing the Packard six tomorrow.
I’m going to cover all three versions Buick, Pontiac, and Oldsmobile. Eventually I’m not entirely sure when.
Buick 3800
WYR would have to be the Skylark and the Riviera. I had a 66 Wildcat with a 401, and it was surprisingly fast though it required premium fuel, which you could do without driving gently with leaded regular. You could retard the timing to avoid 'knock' but that cost performance. Anyone buying one of these old high-compression engines today will need either an octane booster or racing fuel. Also hardened valve seats if you expect long life from them. A friend had a 66 Riviera with the 425, a real torque monster. I can only imagine what it was liketo step up to one of the new OHV engines after decades of the flathead Ford with half the power being the fastest for decades; dpuble the HP overnight.
Great memories yeah these are total beasts compared to a flathead ford nice rumble
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The first OHV Ford V8 was not all that much faster. Same with the Pontiac. Both Fords and Pontiacs got truly fast in 56.
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You forgot the 56 - 255 horsepower and 341 lbs. ft. of torque.
Not enough space to write all so from base to max if I missed it. Sorry
In my opinion, Tommy IVO was the king of the nail head buick engine. Most of them he took to the drag races were fuel injected. I don't think he ever ran a supercharger on any of them. Was that your Cartman voice?
It was supposed to be but it was a really bad impression I might try to do Peter Griffin the next time I used to be able to sound just like him. But it’s been years since doing the voices just starting to try and do them again to entertain all of you lol thank you so much for all the information and insight I did see that hot rodders love these engines putting superchargers and adding fuel injection
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I recognized the Eric Cartman voice. Some where along about 1960. Tommy IVO built a two engine dragster, because Nitro Methane had been banned. He was looking for more power. He put the two nail head engines side by side.
He rolled them outward opposing each other, about 15 degrees each.
He meshed them together at the flywheels, so one of the engines had to run backards. It was pretty ingenious at the time. I'm not sure how that car did at the drags, but I bet it was fun to watch!
@@robertwatkins364 He did pretty well with the twin-engined car but I can't remember how the year finished. It was widely talked about though. Later he tried a 4-engine set-up but it was too heavy and not as competitive. He did run a single-engjine car with a supercharger. On this car with a flash of genius, he turned the cylinder heads around as the bolts were symmetrical, using the boost to compensate for the now-smaller intake ports. IIRC that car won the championship that year. I'm getting old and my memory foggy but IMHO those were the best years of drag racing with so much variety and innovation.
The 215 4bbl
Awesome definitely will cover that ending not sure how to approach that one yet if it will be a standalone engine episode or tied in with the Oldsmobile engine like the tempest engine or lump it in with the small block Buick but definitely =)
Riviera both times lol
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1:49 -- horrible Y frame missing the perimeter rails-I think Ralph Nader noticed that (did Oldsmobile refuse to use it on their cars? (Some other GM cars of the era also had it)
1:18 - looks like that one had factory header exhaust manifold
those look to have a Y block design-hard to imagine how they could be lighter in weight than a shallow skirt design
at 4:00 we have a proper X brace frame with perimeter
Totally agree that is the biggest downer about that car is it doesn’t have a proper perimeter frame so if you get T-boned your screwed
boby borris picket did the mash
Haha at the end =)
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I would rather have the '59 Electra and the 53 Skylark.
I was gonna say the song sounds like another one from the Beach Boys, but I see someone else already guessed it.
Yeah I gotta make it harder for name that tune because I’m pretty sure he uses software but there were a few his software program could not get it so I always love a challenge.
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59 and 53
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63 Riv, 61 Electra
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You could do an episode featuring the Buick 445 Stage 1, the ultimate Buick engine, also known as the Hemi killer. The GSX was quite a muscle car! Too bad so few were made.
Awesome video idea
Would you say this was equal to the Ford FE series
Both are good in their own ways I have never driven a vehicle with an FE in it though I have driven a car with a nail head and it was absolutely incredible
63Riv -65 gs twins
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BUICK FIRST V8 IN 1953..WAS CRAP..MANY HAD THE RINGS REPLACED WHEN NEW..