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Posted by jdemaris on July 21, 2006 at 18:55:48 from (66.218.23.204):
In Reply to: Re: 327 v 400 posted by Allan In NE on July 21, 2006 at 15:40:19:
I've got nothing but good to say about the small blocks (except maybe the 307s). I remember when the ultimate street car that I couldn't afford was a 55 Bel Air with a 265 bored to 283. Sears-Roebuck used to sell a kit for it. From my experience, there was never a better high-revving engine that the 327 - especially the 365 horse Vette engine. But . . . late 60s a rich kid in town got a new big-block Chevelle from his parents in 1966. All stock with the highest output 396 offered. Nothing in the area could touch it - not small blocks, Hemi-Cudas, 421 Goats, etc. The rich kid couldn't even drive a four-speed trans., so he got other guys to drive it for him in 1/4 mile runs. He finally drove it into a tree and it was done with. Years later, I had a few 396s and 427s and none of them ran like that Chevelle. Also had a Powerglide 409. I read somewhere that Chevrolet, for the first two years of production, greatly understated the horsepower ratings of the 396. True or not, I don't know. The most impressive small block I've ever been around was - I think in 69. A friend got out of Nam and bought a brand new Z28 when it came with a high-output 302, solid cam, factory installed headers, double-pumper Holley, and a rock-crusher M-22 trans. That thing ran and sounded like a space-ship - and I've never been in anything else quite like it. As I recall it was a short-stroke engine - basically a 327 with a 283 crank - or something like that, along with big valves heads, etc. It would of been interesting to see what the Z28 would of done against the big-block SS396 Chevelle - but it never happened.
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