Technical Does anyone care about chevy 265s?

my 59 chevy parts book shows that block available as a replacement, so it's likely it is.

 

Likely all of those engines would need a rebore before they could be put back in service. Nothing special about any of them. there just ordinary 265 p***enger car engines.

 

Yup! I’m having fun though!


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Ive kept a worn out 57 283 short block for 46 years. It has 7 flat top pistons and one eyebrow piston. It needs everything however its not stuck. I keep thinking about putting it together and only using new gaskets. Just to start up and make big clouds of blue smoke. I got it from a black 4 door that was wrecked. It was a free car. I seen it running a couple of hours before it was totaled out. The guy who wrecked it kept the power pack heads and the 4 bbl intake & carb. ten years after I got it I stripped the body and hauled it to the crusher. I found a unopened bottle of 7 year old Old Charter whisky in the car.

 

@Old wolf ........didn’t that make that bottle of Old Charter 17 years old by that time?

Ray

 

Yes it was 17 by then. However it don't think that made any difference. They age whisky in charred white oak wooden barrels and the wood imparts some flavor. Then if the empty barrel is used again that product is Brandy.

 

I’m kinda bummed those engines look pretty bad inside.. There’s a house I go by on my way to a friends place and along the way there’s a yard with 3 Chevy big blocks sitting out in the elements yeah round.. Why..? They look fairly complete top to bottom with headers and all..

 

At one time some people thought 265's wherent worth anything. I knew a guy had a 55 with a 265 that poured oil out the rear main. He placed a brick on the gas pedal and ran it wide open till it quit running.

 

37200991 casting number is a 1956 block; one's original, the other a dealer replacement. Flat top pistons without valve reliefs is original, the other is the dealer replacement with valve reliefs, most likely for warranty valve/piston contact. Really too bad they're so rusted up. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Sorry Old Wolf, that one is incorrect. I know this thread is about 265s, but.. I’m in the beverage alcohol business. Brandy is made from fermented and distilled fruit. Brandy without an added description is made from wine, otherwise it’s labelled with the type of fruit- “apple brandy” or “apricot brandy”.
Bourbon (American) is required to be aged in new, charred white oak barrels. Which is the source for Canadians to purchase (for cheap) the once used barrels, that the Americans aren’t allowed to reuse, and age their whiskey into their style of “smooth Canadian whiskey”.

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