Have a chance to buy an old race motor,and need an opinion on whats it worth?Its a 1963 375 horse 327 vette motor that was raced in 63-64.It has 63 vette dual quad carbs on top a 6-71 magnesium blower,crower cam 7 or 7.5 to 1 pistons and has been completely freshened up and runs perfect.It has to run 110 octane because of the small chamber heads so I would have to run bigger combustion chamber heads to run pump gas.The motor is still in the car and it ran 9's in the quarter back in the day.I also heard that magnesium blowers cant be run on the street because they can expand and you lose boost.Anyone here of that?
Magnesium is more expensive and corrodes pretty quick,so Aluminum is more common. I'm guessing Aluminum and Magnesium would expand at similar rates,but don't know for sure. What are you going to do with this weapon?
Stick it in the 3 window w/engine set back,early 4 speed,big olds rear,and no rake.Oh yeah and drive it real hard.........everywhere.
This thing ran 9s in the quarter in 63-64 with an SBC? In what? He used all the right names to get the price up but what you have is a SBC with 7 to 1 compression and aftermarket stuff in it, not a 375 horse vette engine. Hell, 2/3 of the used small blocks ever sold were vette engines. All of them either the 365 or 375 horse versions. Nevermind the smogger heads aftermarket cams and TRW flat tops in most of these vettes. There are a hell of a lot more 365/375 horse vette engines today than there were in the 60's. Kinda like deuces...
You would sell it!! Is that "Shitbox" you are building going to be ready for mooneyes on sat? -Bigdaddy
Don't know what it's worth, but it sounds cool. I've got a 355 four bolt main, with double hump angle plug 202 heads, lunati roller, with all the goodies, fed by two 600 hollies sitting on tunnel ram, that cost over $1200 dollars to build in 1974 money. Who KNOWS what this stuff is worth now...... Flatheads forever!!
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