Projects It's 3/27, so show off your 327's!

36/37truck1 by 1pickup posted Mar 27, 2017 at 6:08 PM

Mine: Large journal ('69), bored .040, 11.5:1 pistons, solid lifter (original GM) Corvette 375hp cam, Weiand WC4D intake, Large logo 97's (got to rebuild one more), Speedway "Corvette" ram horns. Stock single points distributor (for now). Cal Custom finned valve covers, & I have a speedway finned pan to match. On a stand at the moment. I have a Saginaw 3 speed & '60-'62 style cast iron bell housing w/ 11" clutch to be bolted on the back. Then, it goes in my chopped '36/'37 Chevy Pick Up.

 

My old deuce pickup. HRP

 

Well I guess since the calendar will never coincide with 2/35

 

Same motor, 4 years apart. Tunnel ram got sold, and the
4 carb unit is going on next in the "Creeper" coupe
Also had a '65 El Camino with a 327, many moons ago.

 

Something cool about a 327 in my opinion. This is a 365hp I bought new from Penske Chevrolet when I bought the car 40 years ago this month. I have replaced one broken ring and a couple of broken valve springs but other than that it has been a great engine.

 

31 327 by 61cad posted Sep 19, 2008 at 4:16 PM

Yep

 

Yeah boy!! I celebrate this day every year...

Stock 1964 300 hp version with upgraded cam. I purchased the engine in Las Vegas, New Mexico in 2005. Then it had around 60,000 original miles. Still going strong.

JC62

 

The 327 in my 63 Impala.

 

in a '33 chevy. 327 block, 283 crank

 

unique 327 here:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/327-no-start-and-more-problems-found.997884/

 

This is the 350 horse 327 for my wifes' 67 Nova.
66 dated Nova/Chevy11 specific block, 11.2/1 plus .040, forged TRW pistons, balanced.
All NOS GM:
Steel crankshaft, rods, 8 inch harmonic balancer, "151" L79 camshaft, NOS "291" heads, (2.02's), valves, springs, keepers, rockers, pushrods, Delco distributor, "490" Winters aluminum intake, dated 1966 GM issue L79 carb rebuilt by Holley Custom Shop.

 

Who's bluffing here ? I say pull a head at let's measure.

 

my 62

 

In a 1938 Ford...

 

327 in the '47 waiting patiently to live again. Well, I call it a 327 anyway; if you pull a head and measure as @Johnny Gee suggests, then it would be a 333.

 

327 in my '34 pickup

 

The one in my '63 SS, it's been sitting a while.


And the one I drug home Thursday:




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I have THREE 327's, not that I planned things that way. I have no way of posting photos, and it's probably good I don't; if I knew how, I'd be posting everything, and never get anything else done. Ya'll have some nice examples of Chevrolet's best, all around, engine (don't slam me for saying that). I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Not good pics but got one in my 65 Buick.been in there for 7-8 years installing a 6/71 on it now


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Small journal with double camel hump heads, newer valve covers, Mallory ignition, 30-30 cam. kind of street roddy looking in this pic

Now its sitting in a stand, needing freshening, have old Offenhauser valve covers and dual quad manifold for it.

 

funny stuff. at work I write the date several times a day. 3/27/17 had me thinking the same thing, starting a 327 thread. here's some 327 valve cover trivia... correct me if I am wrong. 1962 327's have unique valve covers like these:


while later 327's have these:



see the difference? I used to sell a lot of valve covers on ebay, being in the S.F. Bay Area swap meets are abundant, while in Horsedick Idaho, not so much. I found that $10.00 valve covers at swap meets were worth $40.00 on up on ebay. must have sold 50 pairs. 62 Valve covers always brought a premium. 265 Valve covers were the best sellers though.

 

The '64 L76 327 in my '63 Nova. .030 over, knocked back to 10.5 compression,***** rods, 461 heads with genuine Winters intake, Clay Smith 274 deg./ .450 lift cam, and 2 1/2" ramshorns - tight fit!




Yeah, it goes pretty good too!


Bear

 

well that was in my 50 F1 over 15 years ago, kinda needs a refreshing now.

 

Of course you know how rare that dual snorkel air cleaner is right!
Even rarer yet is the correct base for Holley carb.

 

Mine was a 331

 

my 327 inmy 32 roadster

 

'65 El Camino with a 327, PG combo that went like stink! A friend brought it back to Mass. from Seal Beach, California, I saw it, and HAD to have it! ------(35 years ago - blue '72 in the background)

 

Turned into a 383 later

 

My old sedan.