Yeah congratulations you got it. B Parks did get the name of the band and song title but he didn't get the lyrics you did. Congratulations again... I might continue doing name that tune that way because it seems like it's a little bit harder but I might see what genre it is country music, to sing lol
My oldest brothers brother in law had a 4 speed 427 Chevelle SS with cowl induction. Let me tell you that thing was a BEAST. He took me for a ride in it and by the time we got back I had to change my underwear. Only other two time I was that scared was ridding on the back of CBX Honda Motorcycle and on the lake in a hot rodded Bass Boat with a bored and stroked V6 outboard Envinrude. Doing 75 + on water was scary as hell to me but Im a landlubber.
My father and I were shopping for a new pick-up truck in 1971. We looked at Chevy first. They had already introduced the 1972 model in 1971, not indicating that a new from the ground up Chevy pick-up was coming for 1973. The 1972 Chevy C20 we looked at had a 400 emblem on both front fenders and it was a big-block. It also had front disc brakes and factory air. In the passenger cars for atleast 1972-on had a small-block 400. It was there that the big-block 400 was known as the 402 to differentiate the 2 engines. I also remember the 1969 to 1971 Chevy pick-ups having 396 emblems on the front fenders. We ended up buying a new 1971 Ford F250, with front disc brakes, 360 V8, A/T, PS, PDB and no A/C. We had an aftermarket A/C installed soon after we got the truck. Ford did have a factory A/C but the dealer advised us not to get it because most of the glove box would be taken up(your camera test wouldn't have worked). We would have been better of with the Chevy p/u. The big-blocks used in MD Chevy trucks used different cylinder heads and dished pistons for lower compression. I worked in a fleet shop and I had been through the 366 and 427 truck V8's. They had Holley 4-barrel carbs on them and had governors. Most of our MD Chevy trucks had small-block 350's. Those also used special heads and had dished pistons. They a 2-barrel Rochester carbs and electronic governors. The governor control box was under the left side of the dash near the parking brake handle. All you had to do was unplug it and that defeated the governor(which the drivers did). If the engines made it past 20K miles, it was a miracle. The rebuilding machine shop liked to put flat-top pistons in, because they said it made more power. Really, they were just cheaper. Those engines would self-destruct. Ofcourse the forged cranks were supposedly no good and had to be replaced(then they would sell the same cranks back to us, probably). We got wise to them and stopped using them. We started having the machine shop which did our tractor machining work do our gas engines. Surprise! The engines lasted longer than the first engines which came in the trucks when they were new. We even had them do some Olds 350 diesels for us. Car choices: The 1970 Chevelle SS454 would be the one to have. The 1968 or newer SS396 would be cool too. The most common 396 in a Nova was detuned.
@@automatedelectronics6062 yeah I thought they made a small block 400 as well super confusing they should have just called the 402 what it was Thank you for sharing that insight and information
In 1972 I went with my dad to a Chevrolet dealership in Texas, he bought 1972 Cheyenne super C10 402 turbo 400 transmission front disc brakes posi Trac rear end wooden bed, the truck had and has 402 emblems on the fenders. I still own the truck. As far as I'm concerned the 366 was junk, the only thing in it that's worthwhile is the Billet steel crankshaft 6223. I own a 70 Series dump truck that has a 366 in it, and one with a 350 small block and a 350 small block will outperform the 366. I also own a real clean 70 series truck 427 tall deck , twin screw 2 Henderson rear ends, 13 speed. Good truck.
I had one of the 66 Chevelle big block with the 396 375 HP. One of only 200 made with the 4 speed an 4 11 gear. It was the fastest car in town at that time. I was turning the quarter mile in high 12s to the low 13s. One of the fastest cars I’ve ever had. Unfortunately got hit by a train an know was hurt but the car was totaled.
That's about right...when I was in 11th grade in high school I had a 69 440 charger. 3.55 position 4 speed. Mild cam tri power headers. I ran 12.88 on g-60s
I really enjoyed this episode. I grew up in a Chevy family. I loved the Mark IV big block but my dad was a small block fan. I've worked on a bunch of big blocks including the natural gas ones made by Generac. A buddy of mine put a 396 in a 1956 Pontiac and he and the car were extras in the movie American Graffiti. I'd choose the Corvettes but would love any of them. A 1970 454 4 spd Corvette would be my favorite.
Jay, an old navy veteran doen the street from be growing up, had a 65 vette, 396 with side pipes...my friend and i were imported car fans, and we watched him tune it one day. Turns out, at 100k, he installed an ls6 454 (450hp) and we watched him rev it to 6500 rpms! We were floored, as we thought only small italian engines could rev so high! Learned alot that day!
The big-block Chevrolet engines were not durable enough for NASCAR, but they made wicked drag strip and street engines, especially the versions with 4-bolt main bearing caps and solid lifters.
It was rumored that they furnished a case of oil with every big block Chevy car or light truck purchased. Another great bit of work and a great subject and job,I added some more information on the tall block industrial heavy medium,and got lost in the internet void,and I am to lazy to write again,Jay as always great work,and thanks again.
The 'porcupine' engine made its NASCAR debut in 1963 as a 427 at Daytona. The Chevies that had these engines were able to easily hold their own against the 427 Fords and the Plymouth 426 Max Wedge engines. When people spotted the way the valves were arranged (only seen on the rare times the valve covers were removed), it got the nickname porcupine. It's also known as the Mystery Motor and the Mk IV. GM cancelled any racing programs soon after, and the engine wasn't heard from again until 1965, when it was introduced in the Impala as a replacement for the 409. BTW, the 409 was available for the first few months after the 65s were out, but the 396 was a much better engine. WYR= I'm not a GM guy, but if you gave me one, I'd take any of them. Great research, Jay!
Thank you so much for the clarification. There is another 427 engine as well the mystery motor. I'm happy you did this episode I've been putting it off because I didn't wanna go down the rabbit hole of all the L engines talk about confusing
My dad scored a BlueBird school bus for $800 with a rebuilt 230 truck block six in it, which we turned into a sweet RV. I designed the interior with 110 volt electrical, he got a 327 into it. 15 mpg at 50 mph but only 10 mpg at 60 mph (huge wind resistance in those). We put a rod thru the water jacket on I-75, when the clouds cleared there were cars and trucks everywhere! A 350 truck engine still was a bit light on 7% grades. I always wished for a 427 tall block in front of its 4speed OD. This video confirms how good that would have felt.
Jay: The “Turbo 400” ? That’s the moniker normally given to the Turbo Hydramatic 400 transmission. The Chevy I-6 became known as the “Turbo Thrift”, the Chevy small-block V8, starting in 1955, was called “Turbo Fire” (that name was also applied to the 348 and 409), and then starting with the Mark IV engine, the big blocks were tagged as “Turbo Jet”. I’m no exactly sure when Chevy stopped tagging their engines that way, but I believe it was in the mid-70’s.
These were stout engines and stood equal to any. It wasn't hard to make a stocker really perform with a cam and bolt-ons which made them popular on the street. The 427 was probably the best of them for the street but none were slugs. A fully-built 454 Chevelle with 2 Holley's on a tunnel ram is the quickest accelerating car I've ever ridden in; scary fast watching the police-calibrated speedometer hit 140 quickly with more to go as the car felt like it was floating. The only quicker car in town was a Camaro with a 427. People would block off Main street for several blocks when that guy showed on a Saturday night to embarrass whoever tried to run against him. The low-end torque of a stout big-block is something you have to experience- totally unlike smaller screamers. WYR gotta do the Chevelle and the Nova- Chevy got it right with those cars.
The 366 is a tall deck engine, 1970 402 in a Chevelle or elcamino was available with 350 horsepower. They also had a tall deck 427 used in medium duty trucks. 1970 Chevelle SS, Nova SS
Hi Jay! You know, it's kind of hard for me to admit (being a Ford guy) but, those big-block Chevys were a more tractable and better engine than the famed hemi. The aluminum block versions DOMINATED Can-Am racing for quite a while. Boatloads of horsepower too. I guess it's lucky that Chevy came out with these engines to combat the 427 side-oiler from Ford. (another pretty good engine!). WYR CORVETTE for number one. CORVETTE for number two, too! Never was much of a Chevelle fan after the 1967 model.
Great choices I was brought up around four as well. My grandpa was a huge and my dad like Chevy and then he went to Dodge and then he went back to Chevy did a Ford F150 at one point and it was the best truck we ever had heavily discounted like $60,000 truck that we got for somewhere around $35k
First pick 1970 Monte Carlo SS 454, second 68 El Camino SS or GMC Sprint 427, a neighbor had a 68 gold and black 68 El Camino use to do burnouts in all 4 gears.i
That's awesome great choices =) I can smell the tires and vaporized gas, which is one of my favorite smells =) The gas that gets burned by cars that have carburetors has a different smell. I don't know how to really describe it but I love that smell.
@@What.its.like. Aroma out the pipe from a carb engine with no cat converter is just different, that El C and other cool cars then to us 11-12-13 year olds and the "illegal" drag races on our neighborhood street was so entertaining. Even got to see a almost new red GTO Judge almost wrap around a pole trying to race backward losing control, , he walked away, but he had an empty pocketbook after that and a 66 Comet coupe hit a tree by my house was the other wreck unfortunately the passenger was paralyzed after that.
Turbo? Like the Turbo transmissions? Using the same technology as Corvair Spyder no doubt. Or maybe it is Turbo in name only? Say it ain't so. This is a great video, im just poking the bear a bit. Thanks for posting. Be well, my friends.
Another great episode, Jay! Side note: in the medium trucks, the engine choices were either 366ci or 427ci, and they were the tall deck variety… as many of your viewers already know, these tall deck variants can be made into huge displacement torque monsters; think 672ci or even biglier! Thanks for sharing, see you in the next episode!😁
Sounds like these would have been extremely desirable engines if they had the strong bottom end (forged crank and 4 bolt main caps) like the hi po car engine and unlike the weaker low compression "civilized" car engine with the cheap crank and 2 bolt mains. Did some of these trucks also offer the 350 small V8 with 4 bolt mains ?
Yes... it should be noted that the 427 used in Corvettes and full size cars was NOT the same as the 427 used in medium duty trucks. Very similar, but still very different engines.
@@davidpowell3347 The tall deck truck engines weren't particularly desirable for high performance because the the taller deck required special heads and intake manifolds unique to the trucks... not so good for high rpm or high hp, they were only good for low end torque. Today you can buy spacers that allow the use of the high perf. passenger car heads and intakes, and in fact, the modern 572 crate engines use the taller deck height as well. 350 small blocks with 4 bolt mains were quite common in 3/4 ton trucks all the way up to the C65/C70 medium duty trucks.
Would be interesting to contrast the overall block weights,center to center bore spacings,and width of the bottom end (provides space for lots of crankshaft throw in case long stroke is desired) between these engines and such as the ill fated Packard V8 , the big Lincoln/Mercury 462 and the 500 cubic inch Cadillac blocks did Packard engineers prove that deep skirt/"Y" block was not needed for V8 engines if the bulkheads and crankcase walls were sufficiently robust ? (Unless of course that the main caps are to be cross bolted in from the sides) Buick had the lightest of the really big displacement V8s ?
Owned a 396 four speed 69 Impala. The stock engine was nice - would not call it sporty - made every car front heavy. A stroked and lighter SBC is better.
Would much rather have a Monte or Chevelle than a Corvette and a 396 or 402 rather than the 454 I believe that a skilled driver with the most potent small V8 in the Corvette or maybe even the Nova could move slightly faster over a realworld twisty road than with the big block V8 due to handling issues and excessive front weight.
Your information seems to show the "mild" lower compression version as having a forged steel crankshaft and even perhaps 4 bolt mains,I wonder if it was later than when the information came out that the "mild" version went to a cast crank and 2 bolt mains (unless my information is incorrect)
But a shocking design with the centre of the cylinder heads having 2 exhaust valves sitting next to each other the same as the small block. Extremely poor design leading to overheating in the centre of the cylinder head.
Too bad Chevrolet didn't better explain the value of the aluminum heads for the big block (reduced the weight down to almost the same as the small block) and didn't produce enough aluminum blocks to make it cost effective (would've weighed LESS than a small block).
Private Malone - David Ball , My name is Private Malone and if you're reading this I didn't make it home
Yeah congratulations you got it. B Parks did get the name of the band and song title but he didn't get the lyrics you did. Congratulations again...
I might continue doing name that tune that way because it seems like it's a little bit harder but I might see what genre it is country music, to sing lol
Always be ridin with inmate Jerome
Hahaha
1966 Corvette Stingray. Love the shape. So iconic.
Both of the Chevelles. Such a bad-ass look.
1966 Stingray with the 427!
Awesome =) match made in heaven
My oldest brothers brother in law had a 4 speed 427 Chevelle SS with cowl induction. Let me tell you that thing was a BEAST. He took me for a ride in it and by the time we got back I had to change my underwear.
Only other two time I was that scared was ridding on the back of CBX Honda Motorcycle and on the lake in a hot rodded Bass Boat with a bored and stroked V6 outboard Envinrude. Doing 75 + on water was scary as hell to me but Im a landlubber.
You know its a good design to survive all these decades. I've had two 454s in my 454SS PUT. Good performers.
My father and I were shopping for a new pick-up truck in 1971. We looked at Chevy first. They had already introduced the 1972 model in 1971, not indicating that a new from the ground up Chevy pick-up was coming for 1973. The 1972 Chevy C20 we looked at had a 400 emblem on both front fenders and it was a big-block. It also had front disc brakes and factory air. In the passenger cars for atleast 1972-on had a small-block 400. It was there that the big-block 400 was known as the 402 to differentiate the 2 engines.
I also remember the 1969 to 1971 Chevy pick-ups having 396 emblems on the front fenders.
We ended up buying a new 1971 Ford F250, with front disc brakes, 360 V8, A/T, PS, PDB and no A/C. We had an aftermarket A/C installed soon after we got the truck. Ford did have a factory A/C but the dealer advised us not to get it because most of the glove box would be taken up(your camera test wouldn't have worked). We would have been better of with the Chevy p/u.
The big-blocks used in MD Chevy trucks used different cylinder heads and dished pistons for lower compression. I worked in a fleet shop and I had been through the 366 and 427 truck V8's. They had Holley 4-barrel carbs on them and had governors. Most of our MD Chevy trucks had small-block 350's. Those also used special heads and had dished pistons. They a 2-barrel Rochester carbs and electronic governors. The governor control box was under the left side of the dash near the parking brake handle. All you had to do was unplug it and that defeated the governor(which the drivers did). If the engines made it past 20K miles, it was a miracle. The rebuilding machine shop liked to put flat-top pistons in, because they said it made more power. Really, they were just cheaper. Those engines would self-destruct. Ofcourse the forged cranks were supposedly no good and had to be replaced(then they would sell the same cranks back to us, probably). We got wise to them and stopped using them. We started having the machine shop which did our tractor machining work do our gas engines. Surprise! The engines lasted longer than the first engines which came in the trucks when they were new. We even had them do some Olds 350 diesels for us.
Car choices: The 1970 Chevelle SS454 would be the one to have. The 1968 or newer SS396 would be cool too. The most common 396 in a Nova was detuned.
@@automatedelectronics6062 yeah I thought they made a small block 400 as well super confusing they should have just called the 402 what it was
Thank you for sharing that insight and information
Read the comment I just posted.
I just did
In 1972 I went with my dad to a Chevrolet dealership in Texas, he bought 1972 Cheyenne super C10 402 turbo 400 transmission front disc brakes posi Trac rear end wooden bed, the truck had and has 402 emblems on the fenders. I still own the truck.
As far as I'm concerned the 366 was junk, the only thing in it that's worthwhile is the Billet steel crankshaft 6223.
I own a 70 Series dump truck that has a 366 in it, and one with a 350 small block and a 350 small block will outperform the 366.
I also own a real clean 70 series truck 427 tall deck , twin screw 2 Henderson rear ends, 13 speed. Good truck.
I had one of the 66 Chevelle big block with the 396 375 HP. One of only 200 made with the 4 speed an 4 11 gear. It was the fastest car in town at that time. I was turning the quarter mile in high 12s to the low 13s. One of the fastest cars I’ve ever had. Unfortunately got hit by a train an know was hurt but the car was totaled.
That's about right...when I was in 11th grade in high school I had a 69 440 charger. 3.55 position 4 speed. Mild cam tri power headers. I ran 12.88 on g-60s
I really enjoyed this episode. I grew up in a Chevy family. I loved the Mark IV big block but my dad was a small block fan. I've worked on a bunch of big blocks including the natural gas ones made by Generac. A buddy of mine put a 396 in a 1956 Pontiac and he and the car were extras in the movie American Graffiti. I'd choose the Corvettes but would love any of them. A 1970 454 4 spd Corvette would be my favorite.
@@geebs76 thank you so much for sharing the literature
I haven't drove a IV big block yet got to drive a bubble top 409 which was cool
Jay, an old navy veteran doen the street from be growing up, had a 65 vette, 396 with side pipes...my friend and i were imported car fans, and we watched him tune it one day. Turns out, at 100k, he installed an ls6 454 (450hp) and we watched him rev it to 6500 rpms! We were floored, as we thought only small italian engines could rev so high! Learned alot that day!
I would say out of them all i always favored the 396 ! It really moved the weight !
Awesome
I owned a 69 SS 396 Chevelle 4 speed and it was a strong running vehicle for stock.
Sweet that car sounds amazing
The big-block Chevrolet engines were not durable enough for NASCAR, but they made wicked drag strip and street engines, especially the versions with 4-bolt main bearing caps and solid lifters.
Yep … The Mark IV engines had to be modified to install an additional head bolt to keep the head gaskets on them.
It was rumored that they furnished a case of oil with every big block Chevy car or light truck purchased.
Another great bit of work and a great subject and job,I added some more information on the tall block industrial heavy medium,and got lost in the internet void,and I am to lazy to write again,Jay as always great work,and thanks again.
Thank you so much for sharing that information =) greatly appreciate it
@@What.its.like. Always enjoy your hard work Jay.
The 'porcupine' engine made its NASCAR debut in 1963 as a 427 at Daytona. The Chevies that had these engines were able to easily hold their own against the 427 Fords and the Plymouth 426 Max Wedge engines. When people spotted the way the valves were arranged (only seen on the rare times the valve covers were removed), it got the nickname porcupine. It's also known as the Mystery Motor and the Mk IV. GM cancelled any racing programs soon after, and the engine wasn't heard from again until 1965, when it was introduced in the Impala as a replacement for the 409. BTW, the 409 was available for the first few months after the 65s were out, but the 396 was a much better engine. WYR= I'm not a GM guy, but if you gave me one, I'd take any of them. Great research, Jay!
Thank you so much for the clarification. There is another 427 engine as well the mystery motor.
I'm happy you did this episode I've been putting it off because I didn't wanna go down the rabbit hole of all the L engines talk about confusing
My dad scored a BlueBird school bus for $800 with a rebuilt 230 truck block six in it, which we turned into a sweet RV. I designed the interior with 110 volt electrical, he got a 327 into it. 15 mpg at 50 mph but only 10 mpg at 60 mph (huge wind resistance in those).
We put a rod thru the water jacket on I-75, when the clouds cleared there were cars and trucks everywhere! A 350 truck engine still was a bit light on 7% grades. I always wished for a 427 tall block in front of its 4speed OD. This video confirms how good that would have felt.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience
Jay: The “Turbo 400” ? That’s the moniker normally given to the Turbo Hydramatic 400 transmission.
The Chevy I-6 became known as the “Turbo Thrift”, the Chevy small-block V8, starting in 1955, was called “Turbo Fire” (that name was also applied to the 348 and 409), and then starting with the Mark IV engine, the big blocks were tagged as “Turbo Jet”.
I’m no exactly sure when Chevy stopped tagging their engines that way, but I believe it was in the mid-70’s.
I want them all!
Awesome all is a choice =)
What a work horse of an engine! It loved gasoline though. Too much! My favorite chevy engines.
WYR: 70 Chevelle and 70 Vette, although the 66 Chevelle would be awesome.
Great info as always, thank you for everything you do ~ Chuck
Awesome choices Charles
70 Monte - 68 Nova -
402 truck motors were in all camper special trucks, super durable…
Awesome =)
Great video thank you
Thank you so much for watching happy you dig this episode
66 Chevelle, although does Monte Carlos a couple of them were Big Blocks SS and 4-speed those are some rare ones.
These were stout engines and stood equal to any. It wasn't hard to make a stocker really perform with a cam and bolt-ons which made them popular on the street. The 427 was probably the best of them for the street but none were slugs. A fully-built 454 Chevelle with 2 Holley's on a tunnel ram is the quickest accelerating car I've ever ridden in; scary fast watching the police-calibrated speedometer hit 140 quickly with more to go as the car felt like it was floating. The only quicker car in town was a Camaro with a 427. People would block off Main street for several blocks when that guy showed on a Saturday night to embarrass whoever tried to run against him. The low-end torque of a stout big-block is something you have to experience- totally unlike smaller screamers.
WYR gotta do the Chevelle and the Nova- Chevy got it right with those cars.
The 366 is a tall deck engine, 1970 402 in a Chevelle or elcamino was available with 350 horsepower. They also had a tall deck 427 used in medium duty trucks. 1970 Chevelle SS, Nova SS
Thank you so much for that information =)
There's an 8.2l/502ci variant for marine applications. I've worked on hundreds of them.
@@rustjockey next generation
1970 402 was also available in 350 and 375 HP in the Chevelle SS and others
Awesome thank you so much for that correction 402 is hard to get and 366 hard to get information about
Nova
Chevelle
Corvettes
Any would do for me 😉
Great Episode
Happy Motoring ✌️🤠
Awesome choices
Hi Jay! You know, it's kind of hard for me to admit (being a Ford guy) but, those big-block Chevys were a more tractable and better engine than the famed hemi. The aluminum block versions DOMINATED Can-Am racing for quite a while. Boatloads of horsepower too. I guess it's lucky that Chevy came out with these engines to combat the 427 side-oiler from Ford. (another pretty good engine!). WYR CORVETTE for number one. CORVETTE for number two, too! Never was much of a Chevelle fan after the 1967 model.
Great choices
I was brought up around four as well. My grandpa was a huge and my dad like Chevy and then he went to Dodge and then he went back to Chevy did a Ford F150 at one point and it was the best truck we ever had heavily discounted like $60,000 truck that we got for somewhere around $35k
First pick 1970 Monte Carlo SS 454, second 68 El Camino SS or GMC Sprint 427, a neighbor had a 68 gold and black 68 El Camino use to do burnouts in all 4 gears.i
That's awesome great choices =)
I can smell the tires and vaporized gas, which is one of my favorite smells =)
The gas that gets burned by cars that have carburetors has a different smell. I don't know how to really describe it but I love that smell.
@@What.its.like. Aroma out the pipe from a carb engine with no cat converter is just different, that El C and other cool cars then to us 11-12-13 year olds and the "illegal" drag races on our neighborhood street was so entertaining. Even got to see a almost new red GTO Judge almost wrap around a pole trying to race backward losing control, , he walked away, but he had an empty pocketbook after that and a 66 Comet coupe hit a tree by my house was the other wreck unfortunately the passenger was paralyzed after that.
For both choices I would take the Chevelle. They may be the obvious choices, but they are what I choose.
Awesome choices
I'd go with the Chevelle for both of them.
Both Corvettes!
Turbo? Like the Turbo transmissions? Using the same technology as Corvair Spyder no doubt. Or maybe it is Turbo in name only? Say it ain't so. This is a great video, im just poking the bear a bit. Thanks for posting. Be well, my friends.
Yeah, I have no idea why companies named it like that Porsche still doing that with the taycan turbo s
1970 Chevelle all day long.
Finally!
Haha it's been along time coming
Another great episode, Jay! Side note: in the medium trucks, the engine choices were either 366ci or 427ci, and they were the tall deck variety… as many of your viewers already know, these tall deck variants can be made into huge displacement torque monsters; think 672ci or even biglier! Thanks for sharing, see you in the next episode!😁
Sounds like these would have been extremely desirable engines if they had the strong bottom end (forged crank and 4 bolt main caps) like the hi po car engine and unlike the weaker low compression "civilized" car engine with the cheap crank and 2 bolt mains.
Did some of these trucks also offer the 350 small V8 with 4 bolt mains ?
Thank you so much for watching and digging this episode, as well as all of the added information and insight. Greatly appreciated.
Yes... it should be noted that the 427 used in Corvettes and full size cars was NOT the same as the 427 used in medium duty trucks. Very similar, but still very different engines.
@@davidpowell3347 The tall deck truck engines weren't particularly desirable for high performance because the the taller deck required special heads and intake manifolds unique to the trucks... not so good for high rpm or high hp, they were only good for low end torque. Today you can buy spacers that allow the use of the high perf. passenger car heads and intakes, and in fact, the modern 572 crate engines use the taller deck height as well.
350 small blocks with 4 bolt mains were quite common in 3/4 ton trucks all the way up to the C65/C70 medium duty trucks.
Hey the mark IV engines where made from 1965 to 1990 thats it folks.
Would be interesting to contrast the overall block weights,center to center bore spacings,and width of the bottom end (provides space for lots of crankshaft throw in case long stroke is desired) between these engines and such as the ill fated Packard V8 , the big Lincoln/Mercury 462 and the 500 cubic inch Cadillac blocks
did Packard engineers prove that deep skirt/"Y" block was not needed for V8 engines if the bulkheads and crankcase walls were sufficiently robust ? (Unless of course that the main caps are to be cross bolted in from the sides)
Buick had the lightest of the really big displacement V8s ?
Owned a 396 four speed 69 Impala. The stock engine was nice - would not call it sporty - made every car front heavy. A stroked and lighter SBC is better.
Both Chevelles and Nova
Sweet choices
Great job on getting name that tune =)
Been running a.030 over 402 BBC in my '71 F-250 highboy since 1979
@@jedclampett6466 that probably doesn't impress the ford boys lol
1970 Monte Carlo or the Corvetter in the second group
Sweet choices
Would much rather have a Monte or Chevelle than a Corvette and a 396 or 402 rather than the 454
I believe that a skilled driver with the most potent small V8 in the Corvette or maybe even the Nova could move slightly faster over a realworld twisty road than with the big block V8 due to handling issues and excessive front weight.
That 454 was a torque monster meant for pulling or so I've read I've never driven a car with the 454 I've driven trucks
70 Monte Carlo, 70 Corvette tho I'd prefer it to be a 69
69 it is =)
1)Carlo 2) Chevelle
Your information seems to show the "mild" lower compression version as having a forged steel crankshaft and even perhaps 4 bolt mains,I wonder if it was later than when the information came out that the "mild" version went to a cast crank and 2 bolt mains (unless my information is incorrect)
It's possible
Monte Carlo - Chevelle
Sweet choices
Monte Carlo
In school, one of my best buds has a '72 Kingswood with the 454... BEEEAST! Horrible mileage! Great car (well, for a GM :-) ) WYR: 1) Monte 2) Vette
Mote Carlo ss
66 chevelle
WYR:
1- Chevelle
2- Corvette
Awesome 1970s my favorite year for the Chevelle in my humble opinion I also really like the Buick GS which looks very similar
And the final version, the 8.1 liter?
It's in a different generation
Those cars are supposed to have a big block.....boring.
I want my big block in a Datsun B-210.
None! Lol. The 1970 Hemi Cuda was the fastest factory production car.
But a shocking design with the centre of the cylinder heads having 2 exhaust valves sitting next to each other the same as the small block. Extremely poor design leading to overheating in the centre of the cylinder head.
You have no idea what you are talkin bout bro😂😂😂
Well researched just like all the other videos..
Too bad Chevrolet didn't better explain the value of the aluminum heads for the big block (reduced the weight down to almost the same as the small block) and didn't produce enough aluminum blocks to make it cost effective (would've weighed LESS than a small block).
Another great engine episode, Jay!