Comments by "a4000t" (@a4000t) on "Bart's Car Stories" channel.

  1. 400 small block debuted in 1970. many swapped them into vegas. it suffered from too short a connecting rod,but if you respected rpm limits it made plenty of torque.
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  2. actually no they didn't, in factory configuration they were dogs,but could easily be made to run like any smallblock. it was basically a 327 crank in a 283 bore block. the 305 was actually worse it had a smaller bore. a set of old double hump heads and a decent cam would wake up a 307.
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  3. Actually chevy had a 153 and 168 tooth flywheel/flexplate and 2 different starters that were either diagonal bolted or straight across pattern thru most its life, most were interchangeable even with big block chevy. Ford on the other hand had 15 different flexplates/flywheels( i exagerate a bit) and starter combos in the early days.
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  4. They were notorious for overheating,cracked blocks,and so on,and also was not over head valve engine.
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  5. chevy had a overhead valve 288 cubic inch in 1917,that being said the sbc had run and was popular for 50+ years.
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  6.  @nathanhansford76  No they didn't,what are you talking about,the 400 sbc was produced for 10 years,it came in everything from trucks to impalas,it was intended to be a high torque,low rpm passenger car/truck engine from the start. We drag racers adopted them as did circle track and nascar. You can still find them and aftermarket blocks from dart and world products still exist. Building a 400 with a 5.7 or 6" rod and custom pistons,or destroking them for 377 inches was very popular. They can be stroked to 434 inches these days,and with aftermarket blocks to 454 inches. The video was about the smallblock chevy. everyone knows ford and chrysler had their offerings and there are a million videos out there respectively.
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  7.  @nathanhansford76  400sbc reply was not meant for you,my mistake. spoilt child huh says the ford fan boi. grow up.
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  8. chevy had a 288 cubic inch overhead v8 in 1917. the flatheads weren't over head valve.
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  9. LS, Small Blocks,Big blocks, hei ignition needed only 1 wire to run,3 wire alternators,then 1 wire alternators. Turbo 3.8 in buick grand nationals,Syclone 4wd with 4.3 v6.. list goes on.
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  10. 4.3 is basically a 350 chevy with 2 cylinders missing, many parts interchange like distributors,waterpumps,valvetrain etc.
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