Small- Block Chevy Engines

Drive real men Trucks not hondas or Bemmers. Get something with nuts!! It will get you the wild fucking girls A lift truck with a stroked 383 and sftermarket cam with open exhaust will get you the girls that are worth taking home.
Small blocks have the best potential of power to weight ratio. There just bad-ass.

and your point to this thread?

@ chevy

If you want a macho engine, why not a big-block?

Ummmm, most women don't know, and don't care about the engine. They care about looking good in the car.
Oh, and showing off to their friends. Now, the classic Chevy small block has stood the test of time and is probably one of the best engine designs ever created.
But it won't get you pussy.

Sounds like over compensating.

am i the only one that smells a spoof?

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Originally posted by Suckrates

If you want a macho engine, why not a big-block?

1.) heavy as fuck
2.) guzzle gas, so barely drivable
3.) expensive to mod, example...u could take a 454 with $5000 into mods and take a 302 with $5000 into mods and the 302 will hand the big blocks ass on a silver platter

if ur on a budget or u just want a motor that will fit in almost any car...get a small block

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I modified a 350 into a stroker 383. It's a cross between a 350 and a 400. Relatively good engine, great torque, good compresention, lacked a little on top end. Way better than any big block.

Chevy 350 is a great design. It's stood the test of time and has a million plus uses. But, however, it's by far, not the best.

These new 4 cyl and 6 cyl H/O motors are kickin and screamin with horsepower and low end torque and high top end. The engineering is beautiful. Amazing what they can do with these little motors. Almost the same numbers and the small block.

However, I agree. A girl cares nill about the size of motor or what it is. Unless she's a mechanics daughter. She cares more bout the sound of the exhaust and how good she's gonna look sitten in it. Also, how high or how low the ride sits.

small block chevys are great engines...you can make great power and still have good weight distributon....

id take an outdated 4 bolt 350 over any DOHC 4/6 cylinder u can name

I'll take the Chevy 350 engine anyday...where is that clip of the stock Corvette dusting a Lotus Esprit

I like the pontiac engines better

Ok to make my point, read this: Quote from http://www.7extrememotorsports.com/nhra/stats/


"One dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower then the first 8 rows at Daytona. Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 1/2 gallons of nitro per second, the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747, but with 4times the energy volume.

The supercharger takes more power to drive then a stock hemi makes.

Even with nearly 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into nearly-solid form before ignition.

Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock.

Dual magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.

At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the flame front of nitro methane measures 7050 degrees F.

Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.

Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting off it's fuel flow.

If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in those cylinders and then explodes with a force that can blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or blow the block in half.

Dragsters twist the crank (torsionally) so far (20 degrees in the big end of the track) that sometimes cam lobes are ground offset from front to rear to re-phase the valve timing somewhere closer to synchronization with the pistons.
To exceed 300mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G's. But in reaching 200 mph well before 1/2 track, launch acceleration is closer to 8G's.

If all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs $1000.00 per second.

Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have read this sentence. * Top Fuel Engines ONLY turn 540 revolutions from light to light!

The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm.

To give you an idea of this acceleration, the current TF dragster elapsed time record is 4.477 seconds for the quarter mile. This means that you could be coming across the starting line in your average Lingenfelter powered "twin-turbo" Corvette at 200 mph (on a FLYING START) and the dragster would BEAT you to the finish line FROM A DEAD STOP in a quarter mile distance! "

Ok now, lets see... do they use a 350?

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Originally posted by IDMaxGuy

Ok now, lets see... do they use a 350?

No, its a cross bolted main, two valve head Chrysler design based on the 426 Hemi. The BB Chevy-based Rodeck has had (limited) success in Top Alcohol and is mostly known for its use in monster trucks.

top fuels are well over 500 cubic inches by the way....

Small Blocks are great motors depending on what your putting them into and how knowledgable of a builder you are. My satellite would be slow and weak with a smallblock though. the bb 440 is perfect for this application and the parts are cheap. American muscle kicks nuts and always will.