What parts are so important to Chevy Eng owners?

I keep hearing people telling other people what they should use in their cars. "Use something different" well who is building these "different" motors? The hemi, nailhead, y block, flathead, max wedge, etc. have all been used in just about every project out there for decades. Where are the different motors? Is are there some elves building one off motors and s****ping the blueprints? How do I order a motor that hasn't been used? Maybe I should troll the helicopter bone yard so I can be different.

 

To replace a water pump on a flathead you have jack up the engine as the water pump is also the engine mount. As for wheel bearings, how many of us actually carry spare wheel bearings? I do have belts, coil, points/condenser, wires, hoses etc. Should I carry a spare carburetor or generator too while I'm at it? How about a clutch disc, pressure plate etc? I really don't think most people are going to replacing those on the side of the road. I wasn't talking about driving my car coast to coast, merely going to shows in neighboring states and local cruise ins. If you have the space etc to carry a complete engine rebuild kit as well as the tools to rebuild it on the side of the road, more power to ya, I for one don't or feel it necessary to do so.
Matt

 

I always thought that it was the young illiterate that have no idea what GM stands for both now and in times when America was at war.
-If putting their hands in your wallet as often as they can is important, then GM is your company.

as for being a sheep and following the crowd, that is exactly what you are doing by trying to portray that GM has no idea that each customer will buy 3 engines and 4 transmissions during the average 200,000 mile life of a vehicle.

 

One thing they will never need is to find replacement parts for their 9" Ford or Mustang rack.

But they definetaly will need new bodies, that is over and above the fact that from 1927 thru 1954 GM out produced and out sold Ford by a factor or 2 to 1.

So even though GM produced almost 100% more vehicles than Ford, the extreme low quality of the engines, frames, drive trains, bodies and electrical saw to it that GM's inherent ultra low quality mandated their vehicles into the wreckers at an early date (even after replacing the engine 2 or 4 times).

The fact that there are 50 or 100 surviving '40 Fords, or 10,000 Model T's to every surviving pre '28 GM is a testament to the fact that GM is and has always been about selling you more and more cars and parts in order to keep the corporate honchos rolling in mountains of green.

Illiteracy + M*** consumerism = sheeple


Corrupting and defiling the innocent are degenerate pleasures that need to be enjoyed quickly, while there is still any innocence left.
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Jaguar XK six
Mercedes-Benz 6.3/6.9 V8
Mercedes-Benz 3.5/4.5 V8
Rolls-Royce 6.25/6.75 V8
Aston Martin V8
Aston Martin six
Daimler 4.5 V8
Daimler 2.5 V8
Alfa Romeo 3-litre Montreal V8
BMW 507 etc. V8
Meadows 4.5 six

different enough?

American?
Hudson 308
any one of a dozen flathead straight-8s
Continental, Lycoming, etc. proprietary engines

As regards the SBC: where I live they're almost as exotic as some of the engines on the above list. A few Holden-based local Chevrolets of the '70s were available with an optional 350; lesser versions had a Chevy six or a Holden 308. Before then there were imported Chevrolets, so there is a ****tering of 327s and a few 283s, but they're not ubiquitous by any means.

The parts-availability angle doesn't apply for me, therefore, but there is another aspect: there is a huge body of knowledge that has grown over the years about the SBC. This is real, vernacular, traditional knowledge that exists by floating in people's heads. And as a consequence there is a lot of speed equipment available: not only a lot, but an incredible variety, from so varied a range of sources that it must be possible to build several completely different styles of engine without hardly using any actual GM parts at all. It has quite spontaneously turned into an open-source engine.

 

SBC's are hard to find?? Since WHEN??!! Christ, I'm tripping over the damn things(a 283, 2 327s, a 350, and a 400), and I dont even LIKE them! Just wish I was tripping over hemis...Oh, and if you actually BELIEVE this ridiculous ********, its pretty clear you have never had a hemi apart.