Hot Rods Are you a 283 engine guy or a 327 guy?

Do you identify as a true traditionalist minded hot rodder that thinks the 327(1962 was the first year), is too new, meaning it has to represent 1961 and earlier model year engines only?
Is your loyalty for the 283 engine because "you were there", sort of how the flathead guys felt when those "new fangled" overhead engines came on the scene.
Or is it the 327 because you identify with the early/mid 60's musclecar era more?
Gotta know what makes people tick!

 

There's no replacement for displacement.

 

I love them both, I just broke in an test drove my latest build, a .030 over 283 with ported power pack heads, a mild cam and that little thing is zippy as hell. Not as powerful as my 327 but enough fun for me. But then, I love all my old V8s

 

I'm the build whatever I get my hands on type. Usually ends up being a 283 or 350 because guys seem to think a 327 is somehow superior to a 327. But were I to get my hands on a 327 id build it. As long as it looks right I don't get hung up on displacement

 

I wanted to go all out traditional on my current project. By finally getting the manifold I wanted, the 283 I had on hand was the only thought. It also has to have 3 pedals . For the money I have spent, I could have had a couple of good crates motors. What does it look like you ask ?

 

They are JUST...engines..!

Who cares what inch they are, or what year they are from ? If all I have is a 265 laying around, and I need an engine, that's what I'll put together (or some variation of) . If...all I have laying around is a 400, that's what I'll put together (or some variation thereof).

Small Chevy's that I've run -
- 265
- 327
- 331
- 350
- 364

Mike

 

327, perhaps because of local history. I run one in the avatar.

GM Holden started out in the 40's with 132ci I6 engines (those I love ). We got bigger sixes (up to 202ci), but didn't get a V8 until 1968. That was the 307 Chebby, into the HK Holden. We also finally got a two-door (locally named a "Monaro"), and it came with the 327. The 327 Monaro went on to win the Bathurst touring car race that year.

We got the 350 Chebby in 1969 for the HT Holden, the same time we finally got a locally made V8 (the GMH 253 and 308ci engines).

It's interesting with the HAMB cutoff date - Australia was (perhaps still is) 5 or so years behind the US car styling cues. Stuff from the early 60's that makes it onto the HAMB didn't appear locally until past the HAMB cutoff (the SBC is a great example).

Cheers,
Harv

 

Depending on who you are with; lie about the displacement.

 

My carhas had 265..283 327 307 and 350.
Have a spare 283 and 350 who knows what's next

 

I've had a few 283s over the years, never got any performance out of them...

now that I have a 327 (in a light car), it's pretty fun

 

My deuce roadster, deuce 3 window and 40 coupe each have 300 HP 327's. My daily driver deuce pickup has an honest 56 Chevy 265. Runs like a scalded dog. Seems to like75-80 on the freeway. I will not be surprised if someday it scatters. Only problem is terrible gas mileage if I drive it over 65?

 

265 and 283, because i had several when i was a young hot rodder.

 

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When in doubt, bore it out.....


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My dad had a hot little 301 but if I had to choose between a 283 or 327 I'd pick the bigger cubic inches since it would make more power and we all know Milner was the fastest in the valley with it.

 

I have had a 283, and 327, liked them both. I am a SBC guy. Over the years the coupe has had a 327, 355. and now a bored, stroked, and blown 400.

 

My first two cars were both 283's. First was my '57 Chev Belair with a stock 283, and later I bought a '55 150 six, and built a pretty hot little '67 283 from my '67 Chevelle that got totaled. I loved that 283 and the '55 Chev, and that made me a big fan of the 283.
I've owned one 327 that I put in my Austin gasser when I built it, and it wasn't what the seller said it was, so no fault of the engine, but didn't care for that particular one.
But I've owned more later SBC and BBC engines than early, so can't say I'm a diehard about either engine.

 

I love me a 327. Taboo, our 55 Bel Air, and my two off topic 68 Chevy's all have 327's. My 33 pickup will be getting a 327 in its redo. I could mess with a 283 if I had one on hand, but I am always looking for 327 deals locally.

 

I was only 11 when the 327 came out, and they still weren’t very affordable when I got my license five years later.

The hot setup for the poor among us, which was most everyone was a 283 punched out to 301. My 55 had a 283 but I swapped in a327 (331) as soon as I could.

I never owned a 350 until the early nineties. Now I have three, but I would like a 283/301 some day. Unfortunately the clock is ticking. So it’s unlikely that will ever happen.

 

301

 

I put a 283 crank in a 327.....so I like both

 

I like them both but the best one I ever had was a small journal 327 with a '68 Z-28 crank.

 

uh was the mains bored out then? 68 and later small blocks are large journal including the Z/28's 302. 67 Z/28 cranks (283 crank) were still small journal for the blocks?

 

Back in the 80's i built somewhere just over 360 SB Chevs and grew to really like 283 and SJ 327's. I still have both but in 83 i built myself a 301 that is now in my RPU, best of both combined. What i like about these sizes is the factory rod to stroke ratio and that they are small journal and traditional. JW

 

I consider myself a 327 guy because it's the first engine I built in high school for my '49 chevy pickup. But the 283 could be bored and stroked out to 402 cubic inches. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/402-cubic-inches-from-a-283.1004739/ the 327? I don't know.

 

whatever it is , just let it be old school

none of these gay modern oversized paperweights

i dont even call them engines , to many electronics on them and need a coder to read whatever their problems are

not like the older ones , at where you can hear and listen to it and figure it out . . . imo

 

My mistake, it was a '67. Guy I rebuilt an engine for bought a brand new crank from Chevrolet and let me keep the old one. It was standard and perfect. Go figure.

 

There is no such engine as a 283, they are just a old 327 that came out of a Corvette.

 

I've had them both and always liked them.

The '32 Hiboy sedan had a sweet running 283.



And the '32 pickup had a 327. HRP

 

327

 

YES