Posted on 03/11/2015 6:22:47 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Thanks.
I always like to see old iron go again.
I've done that a few times, just because we could.
But the amount of smoke it threw at startup tells me somebody had the foresight to make a rudimentary effort at preserving the motor.
Most that I've found in the junk yards from the '50's or so are irretrievably frozen, or at least uneconomically irretrievable.
“Remember, Any tool can e the right tool”
Fingers and brain not in sync...almost bedtime.
I did that in an Opel Rally with a 2 liter soda bottle taped to the radio antenna. Had to stop about every 15 miles and fill the bottle back up, but it got me home.
I had a '51 Chevy PU with that tranny. If you got lazy with the shifter you could get it in 2 gears at once.
“I had a 72 Mercury Montego with a 289 smallblock out of a 67 Fairlane police car.”
I had a Montego convertible with a 390 that was crazy fast. Developed a whistle after 120 MPH with the top down.
Couldn’t afford to put gas in it at the time,
260 and 289, great engines. Dodge had the 273 and 340. AMC had the 290/390/401 but suffered from 3/8” head bolts.
Yeah, since Ford intro’d in ‘54, GM in ‘55
Slip and Slide
The V8 OHV Ford engine that debuted in ‘54 was the so called Y block. (239, 272, 292, 312) It had a flat oil pan rail that resulted in a heavy block,much like the FE series (’58-76) BBF’s. (352, 360, 390, 427, 428). The SBF’s (260, 289, 302, 351W) pan have concave areas where the crankshaft goes and is much like the SBC’s block design.
About 225 slanted cubic inches worth.
Sure wish they still made 'em...
That Y-block looks funny with a tiny 1V carb sitting in the middle
Not only could you work on the ford straight 6 they are beasts you could beat the hell out of one and it just kept going i know i owned a couple of them the bodys wore out and the motors never did !
A friend of mine in Korea, had the carburetor of their jeep shot off during a skirmish. He had a blow torch and fed gas into the intake while sitting under the hood while his buddy drove to safety.
The Chevy small block V-8 is another testament to good old fashioned engineering. The cutting edge aircraft of Kelly Johnson through the Saturn V moon rocket were designed with little more than slide rules and good practical engineering. Sometimes I think that our computer aided design may leave out some of the practical engineering know how that gave timeless designs like the small block Chevy V-8
Rust holes in the floor are not a bad thing. Lets you drop your beer cans out the bottom rather than throwing them out the window.
A man walks into a bar carrying jumper cables. The bartender says, “Hey! Don’t you try to start anything in here.”
My first car was a ‘55 Chevy wagon with a 283 in it. It was a total project car that I picked up for $400 in 1983. At one point, the shifter was broken so I removed it and reached through the hole in the transmission tunnel to engage the gears to drive to school. The small block Chevy motor never caused me any trouble.
Many thanks to the designers of that motor. And many thanks to you, Impala, for posting the article and bringing back some fond memories.
You can get three deuces! Not that I want to try to keep the synchronized.
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