The Jalopy Journal
That area on front of converter looks like it would fit the crank like in this jetway pic. [IMG]
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1) The chevy 231 block in the book looks like the caddy without that large bellhousing area on the back that olds and caddy had from 1949. When...
I bought the book CHEVROLET 1955 CREATING the ORIGINAL by Michael Lamm. It has the complete story and pictures about the caddy based 231 cube...
Can any of the studebaker V8 blocks be mounted using bolt holes on front face of block on both sides? I have seen holes on the left side that are...
My wrap up. Cole and Barr at Caddy, 331 1949 engine. Stude with Caddy DNA, 232 1951 engine. Kelly at Chevy with Caddy DNA, 231 1952 engine. Cole...
By 1952 ED "crankshaft' KELLY had cut back the 1949 caddy 331 to a 231 cu. in. V8 for chevy, but then ED COLE came over to CHEVY and scraped the...
I am happy and sad at the same time. I got a super high res and contrast 8"x10" picture of the engine but to get it I also had to accept a...
Four more from the net. 4)To alter Chevrolet's time-honored image from builder of mundane people-movers to performance-car specialist, Cole...
[IMG] There is a bung for the crank, but if something had to be done to the crank?
He was in Racine WI same as me.
I still have not found the book, with the picture of the engine. I can not be the only one who had one? I retired from GM and they gave us a book...
I no longer have any of that but at the time I had a 54 and 57 engines so the rockers would have been from? I did not know you could use Harland...
I found this after a days search. 1) The smallblock was introduced for the 1955 model year as a 265ci engine that cranked out 162 gross hp in...
[IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Turbo 400 case has its bell cut off and ridges on front pump taken off so ALUM plate can go on. Cast iron...
Pic was not super clear but like the 49 caddy eng is sort of like the 49 olds eng this was sort of like them but I think the area around the...
Areopagitica posted Chevrolet had an incrementally smaller V8 Kettering design underway that was deemed too costly. This is the 1st time I have...
Any pictures of the 40 or the engine?
The man who built them passed away. The one I had went to Tom Joyce who sold it to some one else? Case was cut back to front pump area. Pump was...
Two local early OLDS nuts built these Turbo400 to early OLDS adaptors.
From about 1995 to 2001 or 2002 messed with early OLDS engines. Not to keep them stock but to find out what other parts could be used in them. Had...
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