Hot Rods "It's a Corvette Mill"

I watch the local Craiglist for parts for my two old Vettes, scored some good door panels last month. Always 'Corvette Engines' advertised but a bounty of them at the moment, take your pick.

3916323 Big Block 396 1967 1968 Corvette Chevelle Camaro Beaumont BBC
1964-65 corvette 327 engine
1968 Corvette 327 V8
CHEVROLET 350 4-BOLT MAINS COMPLETE ENGINE OUT OF A 1984 L82 CORVETTE
early corvette parts
350 LT1 Corvette motor aluminum heads rebuild from top to bottom pipe performanc
CORVETTE 327
1966 Chevrolet chevy Corvette 427 engine
1970 350 Corvette engine with aluminum LT1 heads
427 1966 corvette engine
LT1 CORVETTE ENGINE AND TRASMISSION

 

10 out of every 4 Chevrolet V8 engines ever made started life in Corvette.

 

I remember a guy telling me that his '65 Impala had the high performance 327 in it "because it's got Corvette valve covers on it".

 

I just last week had a guy tell me he went 200 MPH in the 1/8 mile in 52 ford P.U. because it had corvette SBC. SO there's that!!!!! Jus Sayin!!!

 

Every 327 is out of a corvette and every 348 is a 409 on craigslist, lol

 

We ran the numbers on my friend's just acquired A coupe last fall....what do you know, the generic looking late 70s 350 is an L82 Vette engine. I was quite surprised. He didn't mind at all.

 

..............and all 427's are L-88's!!!

 

Well Gee! You mean that my roadster motor isn't a Corvette. Shucks
Many years ago I went to look at a supposedly 350 hp 327 . As it turned out ,it was just a bare block and heads. The heads were 300hp heads, but the block had been acid dipped ,new cam bearings and soft plugs and the cylinders were honed all by a local machine shop. I bought it for $100 . Ran the numbers , it was a 66 Corvette 300hp. I didn't want to bury it in some hot rod so I sold it to a guy in a Corvette club. He drove up a 100 miles to get it. He was happy and I made a nice profit.

 

I have seen quite a few LG4 "Corvette engines" out there for sale.

 

Of course every 350 is an LT-1

 

Back in the day a vette engine was worth the premium you paid for it cause chevy did all the engineering for you. Now 40 years on its just an engine that needs rebuilding. Its easier than ever to build a 400 hp small block. Aluminum heads,and a cam. I leave the rare numbers to the restorers.

 

And all corvette’s are matching numbers

 

I have a set of aluminum heads (junk heads) and valve covers from a 1986 corvette, they are to go on a block from a truck. I guess I now have a corvette engine.

 

I actually had one of the only 327 Chevy engines in existence that didn't come out of a Corvette, I pulled it out of a wrecked '64 Nova. HRP

 

I got screwed! The 4 bolt main 350 in my '39 is one of the few non Corvette engines ever made! It came out of a GMC van.

 

I just sold a real deal by the code corvette 300hp 327. I got approx $1,000,000.00 for it, right @427 sleeper ?

 

You sold too soon

 

it's more rare than the corvette engine now!!

 

Ha, I got a van block in my Corvette.

 

I'll settle for one of these regular engines. Don't need no stinkin' Corvette.

 

Hell Yeah!!! That was the best Cool Million I ever spent!!! Let me know when you get more!!!

 

Mine's got a 454 out of a Monte Carlo. Now 40 years later I'd probably rather be driving the Monte.

 

Well, I have a ‘70 LS5 in my ‘57 PU, I’d have killed myself and others if it was in a Vette.

 

I bought a 327/365 HP motor complete, with the Corvette aluminum valve covers from my local Chev dealer in '65.......put it in my '61 Impala bubble top.......so, what do you call that?

 

The 327 I put in my 63 impala 20 years ago came out of a 67 Malibu of course I was told it was a vette engine, I didn't care where it came from at the time it was bored 40 over and was a fresh rebuild, I paid 800 dollars for it. It is still in the car to this day.

 

Dude, the C in GMC is for Corvette!

 

LUCKY

 

Danny
The V8 for the 64 Nova model year was a 283 but please tell me that wasn't a 65-67 Chevy II Nova 327 block.

 

Smart move!!!

 

I actually do have a 1956 Corvette 265 in my roadster, but it was maxed out at a whopping 225 hp.