Hot Rods "It's a Corvette Mill"

Blame it on fat fingers, I know the engine came out of a '65 not a '64, my bad! HRP

 

On the other side, I’ve heard of people calling all Ford V-8’s “Thunderbird Motors”. There is a guy I work with who has an O/T early Eighties Oldsmobile Cutl*** with a “Rocket 350”.

 

Toured the (OT) Corvette mill in Bowling Green in the early 80's, would much rather it had been the St. Louis one.

 

L-84????....

 

My ole vette has had three real vette motors in it. It now has a crate motor that runs better than those.

 

What is my 1969 427 has aluminum heads and Isky mechanical roller cam ?

 

dont forget that all had 4 bolt mains too!

 

I had a buddy from high school that had 3 different Chevy cars, all 3 had Corvette motors, even the one with the 307 (2bbl carb and all) in it (someone checked the numbers on it and called him on it)! In that auto shop, someone would call you on spewing BS.
I'm not a Chevy guy, so I kept asking him what year Chevy put a 307 with a 2bbl in a Corvette, never did get an answer for that question.

 

Fred Beezley Motors that changed to Pabisz motors after Fred's son in law took over kept at least 3 sets of Corvette valve covers on the shelf along with at least 3 O98 Cams. The valve covers sold for right at 30 a pair then.

 

This 454 was actually out of a vette



Then I have this small block that isn't but everyone swears it is

 

I owned a 65 Chevelle that was a 327 c.i. 350 h.p. that came in the car when it was new. The engine was the L-79 version.

This car came from the factory with a 4 speed and once it had a 456 gear and Sig Erson cam and the distributor tricked up, and it was fast!!!
This car raced and beat many 409s

Jimbo

 

The LG 327 in my '49 Chevy P/U has a steel crank. I didn't know anything about casting numbers when I built it in high school, but the wife of the guy I bought it from had a Corvette at one point in time so I'm thinkin maybe???

 

C’mon we all know every SBC is out of a vette

every 235 is a “blue flame “ vette engine as well .

Made me laugh when I was building my inline 6 every part was always tied to a vette and folks where asking silly money for it .

 

This is my 58 283 I picked up years ago. I ran the numbers and it too came back as a Corvette motor.

 

Maybe we need to start a new myth about how fast van blocks are, and how much better they are than Corvette engines?

 

There may actually be a reason some real Corvette engines survived. As opposed to other Chevs that end up in the boneyard or crusher, Vettes tended to be saved, rebuilt, new and bigger better engines installed back when numbers didn't matter, so the old engines got tucked away or reused in something else.

 

How many Corvettes were wrecked and totaled? Then their engines were harvested.

 

I'm not going to do the math on it, but...if ya added things up, I think they wreck and write off more Corvettes for parts then they fix.

As mentioned, it wasn't just Corvettes providing part #'s, it was all the rest of the GM model lines. That's a lot of parts floating around. Engines and transmissions to be pulled.
And it seems around here, it not finding a 283 or a 327 that a problem, it's the condition they're found in. A guy has to be some what smart with his money. Easier and cheaper to buy a whole destined for s**** car for a used motor to rebuild other then the work to pull it.
Corvette Sales Volume & Production Numbers by Year (corvsport.com)
On some level we can tell ourselves what ever story we want but at the end of the day, this stuff isn't that rare. Not any more anyways. Some parts are and always will be maybe, but most aren't.
The desire to keep it around, that's getting rare.

 

So now we all need an old Vette in the back yard.
We can buy up all the van blocks cheap.
Drop them in the Vette.
And Bingo. A Vette mill.
Big Profit.

 

Here is one you can rob the engine out of for your TROG roadster and still claim it is a vette mill! What could be more traditional?

 

I guess ive got the other non-Vette small block. It's a large journal 327-250 hp small block out of a pickup. Probably also more rare than a Vette engine...

 

612% of them!

 

That it never originally came in.

 

Friend of mine calls small block Chevys "Vega motors".

 

If that's a late '70s Vette the flathead is probably an improvement.

 

I see that buddy, but it was on the internet, so I have to think it is factual.

 

This was on flatspot on fb a few days ago, allegedly the hose from the right head tees into the hose from the left head so it may be far more show than go driving wise. Pro fairgounds from the opposite spectrum. Sorry about the OT image. View attachment 5535246

 

You can see a bit of the cross pipe curving forward to the Y right behind the alternator.

 

Probably the only plastic car on the HAMB with a flathead