I love a 327 and most of the vintage fleet have them. Taboo is running a 66 block with 69/70 camel humps, isky cam, flat tops and topped with a 6x2's Motor is a little over built for a show car, but it sounds really good with the lake plug caps off. The 55 Chevy has a 65 block, with early camel hump heads, bored 30 over, comp xtreme energy cam, roller rockers and then topped with a complete polished and chromed tri power setup Last 327 in the fleet is for my o/t 68 Camaro. Its the original numbers matching motor, stock bottom end. Correct 68 491 heads (previous owner did the old exchange and had power packs on it), comp grind of the stock 30/30 cam and topped with a over the counter 69 Z/28 intake and Holley carb. I know Denny will like the look as the Z/28s looked similar to a L79
Visually my 327 looks near identical to the 67 302 engine, the biggest difference are the rams horn exhaust manifolds and GM aluminum water pump.
I love the look of the L79 and Z/28 motors, the 350 in my latest project looks identical as well, plus they run really good since most of the aftermarket intakes are copies of the L79 and Z/28 intakes
I use to buy 327-300's out of impalas ect... from my local salvage guy. Good running ones were $75. Not so good $35 lol. I remember buying a 62 327-340 vette engine from him had to give $125 for that one. Still had the front mount behind the waterpump on it. lol. I asked wheres the car? He said it wasn't even worth crushing no metal in it so they burnt the body off and he gave the frame to his cousin, he made a trash trailer out of it.
Eh, I went in the Army in 73 so about 68-71. They were everywhere. Bought my 59 corvette for $1,000 in 70. I had to get help from my Dad cause at .50 cents an hour at Jack's Vickers station and hauling hay wasn't going to pay for it very soon.
Have my first 327 I'm putting in a old truck. 68 large journal. Steel crank. Balanced. Ported and polished 462 camels with 2.02/1.6 valves. Trying a 701 voodoo cam (256/262). 9.87:1 compression. Edelbrock rpm intake 650 Holley VS carb. 1 5/8 long tube headers. Hei distributer. Trying to get a idea how many hp I might have with this combo. This is not a radical build by any stretch, just my shop truck. Any guesses??? Thanks
My 67 Novas' 327 is still on the stand it was built over 30 years ago. This is it's designated parking spot.
I bought a running corvette 300hp 327 engine from Honest Tim at an abandoned air port once, when I was 16 for $175. I asked for receipt.. he said OK no problem...he jumped in his truck and laid rubber getting our of there...guess he didnt have a pencil.
I borrowed this 1969 327 when we were building our altered ,our race motor wasn't done and we wanted to get the car out to the track. It was a stock engine that was in a corvette, unknown if original. We added our injection ,magneto and zoomie headers on alcohol and it went 10.23 at 127 in a 1900 lb altered . we pulled it out when the race motor was done and gave it back and it is still sitting waiting for the corvette to get finished
Hello, This 65 El Camino was my first real NEW car. I sold my 40 Ford Sedan Delivery and the 58 Impala as necessary to purchase this new El Camino for college. I wanted an SS version with a 396/4 speed/Positraction. But, as things would have it, the factory only allowed the Malibu S/S version of the options to have the 396/4 speed combo. So, one out of 4 was bad. No bucket seats, no factory 4 speed for the El Camino, no 396, but the ever faithful Positraction got me out of plenty of deep sand/mud/water situations. The 4 barrel 327 was a standard option. That 327 /Powerglide/Positraction gave me a good 15 mpg and 125k miles of trouble free driving with one blip at 124k. A water pump and thermostat, went out prior to us selling it to a local surfer guy. My friend had purchased a 66 Chevelle El Camino with a new body style and it had a 396/4 speed combo that was allowed for the El Camino and not Malibu S/S specific. It even had bucket seats, too. So, I missed my version of what I wanted in 1964-65. Jnaki So, the 327 was very reliable for 124k miles of driving through thick and thin. The drives were all over California on short and long road trips. The 327 was not a high performance motor, but a stock version with just enough power to get us to where we wanted to be with the least amount of distractions. But, there was no comparison between driving the 396 C.I. +4 Speed vs the 327 + Powerglide if power was what you craved. But, the MPG on the 327 was a lot better on those long drives. Vnak photo A RED El Camino always fit in anywhere, especially during the Christmas Holidays. Delivering presents in the RED El Camino made us feel like big elves with an open sleigh bed in the back. (and AIR SHOCKS)
Wow Brad Urban and the Thermo Quad.. I will never understand why that carb never got the popularity it deserved.. I havn't heard that name in years. Brad just kind of faded away and was never heard from again, he built one hell of a great carb too.. I bought a built up Pontiac 462 from Cliff Ruggles and it came with a Brad Urban / Cliff Ruggles Quadrajet. I drove that motor for 60,000 miles and it never once stalled! It had a very lumpy 308/320 Ram Air 4 cam to..
Building my 25th 327". Use 2.02 heads, original snowflake high rise intakes, I like Holleys, L79 cam-spec cams, 2 1/2" ram horn exhaust, recurved GM point distributors. hardened valve train and forged internals, balanced. Compression at 10.6. Have run autos and 4 speeds, ideally with 3.70 gears. Normally make the outside look like L79 motor, with correct style air cleaner, valve cover, correct fuel lines and filter. Motors go to 7500 with no issues. Fun motors, Here are a couple examples..one in a Nova, one in a Malibu. Also use them to do cloned Z28 302's.
Wow...16 year old thread. that's gotta be a record. But I'll play. My wife's old 48 Chev Panel Deliv. '65 small journal, 1.94 heads.
I've been driving this coupe for over 35 years with the same 327. Sent from my moto z4 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
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