327SBC or 324OLDS Which is better?

Why not a chevy but with olds valve covers the best of 2 worlds

 

You should shipping is going to kill ya but I have a nice 394 and b&M hyrdo, go big or go home my young friend.

Mata,
Here is the deal someone already mentioned crate motors, you are not that type of a man. I know it you know it, if I ever have your ear you never will be. I don't believe that anyone build a 327 crate anyway.

The little olds is going to be heavier than the small block chebby and take up a little more room, but it can be built to overcome the weight and the external size is not a real issue, in the whole scheme of things.

The 327 will turn more revs naturally than the little olds, the little olds can be built to rev but out of the box the 327 is going to be more of a revver. if high rev cruising is your bag then the 327 is the obvious choice.

The cool factor has been mentioned but I would not take anyone's word other than perhaps Bruce's. The only time and engine is going to win cool points is when it is sitting still the rest of the time all anyone should really get a close look at is your tail lights. Cool is just a matter of opinion anyway. I believe for instance that cool and FTW are one in the same, if you concur than it just boils down to one thing, you being yourself.

Either engine mentioned can be as fast, nice and reliable as you would like it to be. Por fin tu seas tu primo.

 

Why disgrace a olds like that

 

Wow, like gag me with service for eight. That is like soooo 20 minutes ago.

 

the level of hatred a person directs toward the small block Chevrolet is directly related to the length of your cuffs and how cool you think HOT RODs make you look.

 

I think both motors are cool and love them both....somebody mentioned ...rpm..... if you want turn some rpm they both need a couple bucks spent.....also
never under estimate the torque the Olds will make ether ......

Just don't tell My little Olds she can't turn rpm....she doesn't know better....I run her 8300 thru the lights, and just pat her on the valve covers, after we had just put a blown chevy on the trailer.

 

If you run a chevy, dress her up nice.....don't be an imposter, Never be embarr***ed and dress your chevy like something else.... But that's me.

 

yea but I had a small journal 302 that didn't start running until 4 and ran until it hit 8 stock out of the box. I was making reference to in stock trim.

You and I get it and a small number of others some of which have been mentioned on this thread or posted on this thread. But there seems to be a sickness on the HAMB, it is takeanyoldjunkmotorandrunwithit-itus. The sickness manifests in whining because it let me down and these engines are just junk.

Given the pocket cash and a little time I could make either engine spin until it came apart, you could to, and do so on a regular basis. I think that the chebby had a liter reciprocating ***embly to start with (I could be wrong) which makes it a little less work. But the down side is that it probably doesn't make the torque out of the gate that the olds does so getting the torque from the chebby is a little harder. One perhaps cancels the other out.

I have a love afair with all things GM, I don't favor either engine. But I am an odd duck as I have been told.

Are we havin' fun yet?

2 of us my friend. If I was taking a pig to the prom I probably wouldn't out a dress on it.

 

Just to further muddy the waters, coolness wise, would you consider a nailhead? I do love 327's and rocket motors both, but to me a well presented nailhead is gorgeous.

 

Funny I was gonna prom reference but stopped short....lol

 

I'd go with the 324. It's just cooler, hands down.
I LOVE a 327 (and I'm a true blue Ford guy), but from 20 feet away, it's just "another SBC". Yeah, it's got a pedigree, but to 90% of the people they won't know the difference from a crate motor unless you tell them..

My two cents, that's all....

 

327 period.

 

Unless your racing.... Dollar for dollar, you're not going to beat a 327 chevy.

 

Im glad to see most of us are the same sick ****s. 55g***erkid & jcmarz are like the only smart ones here. 324Olds WINS!!! Hands down. But the 327 has a SuperT10, camel hump heads, ****ter shield . . . . . . OLDS.

 

Agreed, but the Olds is still hands down much cooler than an SBC these days.

If fast was all that mattered, we'd all be driving drop tanks, not Deuces and Model A's, right?

So you see, gr***hopper, cool counts.

 

The 327 has a SuperT10 with camel hump heads & the 1954 324Olds has a stock auto trans with chrome Oldsmobile ROCKET valve covers. And Im broke.

327SBC or 324Olds?

 

Your broke? Like the rest of us? Use the 327 and sell the Olds to HAMBer Mctim (Y-Block Guy),, he needs one!

 

Good thing Dave answered that Chev with Olds covers idae-- He was a darn sight kinder about it than I would have been!

 

typo41,

funny guy..

If you use your Sherlock Holmes reasoning skills, you will quickly come to the valid conclusion that I have as much use for a Brand X motor as an octopus has for a skateboard...

 

This question really cant be answered unless you finish the ? which is better, for what? What is it going to be used for?

 

What transmission do you have for the Olds?

 

If your broke, sell the Olds for a ridiculous amount of money like all of the other 324's out there and put the money in your build and run the 327/T10.

Early SBC are nice looking engines especially the heads without accessory holes like what you have. Solid trans too.

You can get WOW factor from an early SBC for a lot cheaper than the Olds and have WOW factor when driving too.

 

Both are great motors and have cool factor .

 

Bingo. Define "better".

 

Unless it's an Olds-mo-pile racing a small block Chubby!

 

When I was in high school, my parents drove a 55 super 88 sedan [202 HP 324, 4 barrel] and I used it for dates and Saturday night cruising 'till I got my own Olds...a 56 convertible with the 240 HP 324.
I was able to score the 56 ragtop with new paint, new vinyl interior and a fair top for 250 bucks off a local used car lot...they could barely give those cars away when there was a big demand for the chevies with small blocks, especially the then new 327 engines.
I'd have killed for a car with the 327 and a manual ******! I still feel the same today.
Yeah, the olds' I drove ran pretty good but even the 55 chevies with 283, 4 speeds would beat them.
These were bone stock engines because even back then [mid 60s] it took a boat load of cash to really make an olds 324 run hard. My best buddy had a 38 chevy sedan and he built a 324 Olds for it with his "car lot job" money. He used a built slant-pan hydro behind it and yeah, it ran strong in that light car but the local modified 327 chevies in 37-38 chevies smoked his ***...for a lot less money.
All that coming from a guy who's running a 370 Pontiac in a 34 ford.[Yeah, my olds' got spanked by my buddy's 56 Pontiac 316, 4 barrel, 4 speed slant-pan hydro regularly!]

 

327 for me--hard to beat--if you want it to run hard and keep extra weight off the front of that A

 

You guys amaze me.. You miss the boat completely...

It's like arguing what's worse, a pile of **** or a load of ****!

It's still Generous Motors junk!

 

Ugg that **** drives me crazy. If you want a olds build a damn olds instead of just putting olds valve covers on the belly ****on engine. I say go with the olds myself. But if you dress up the chev properly they look pretty nice. Take a look at the one sinister custom is putting in his T.

 

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