In my "neck of the woods", GM got a bashing and Ford was the engine company....GM had the body by Fisher, rolling coach, ride like on a cloud.
So here we have these old "Babbit Bearing" they were called Chevys back in the early '50's and Ford was still using the flat head up till 1953 when they went to OHV....aunt had one.
Two things:
One is the word Babbit which was a slander term but seems Babbit is THE material for engine bearing "races" and is used today, possibly with more tin alloy over a copper base. My Mac dictionary has quite a write up on the subject of Babbit bearings.
No mention was made of what Ford used. However, after reading the replies below, maybe the slap was due to the Chev splash oiling system of the day.
Been a lot of years but back when I was a kid seems to me the cubes in the GMC were 270 and we called them the "Jimmy 270".
I was a Ford man (boy) at the time but the Jimmy lovers would split the exhaust manifold into two separate exhaust systems and install dual " glass pack" pack mufflers. Boy did those suckers sound neat in second gear winding out. Best sound I ever heard coming out of an L6.
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