@@SirHC888 Agreed. Nobody says "Pontiac/Olds four hundred and fifty five". It's just four fifty five for those who are actual humans. I stopped watching after the first 2 "weird GM engines I've never heard of". LOL
Keep showing engines that aren't what their talking about. 348-409 W had nothing too do with valve covers. GM was working on three engine development programs at the time, codes W, X, and Y, the W engine won .
@@Sabe53what are you talking about the heads were unique offset valves and the engine deck was 74 degrees making the 16 degree wedge shape combustion chamber with the slightly recessed flat head surface hence the w series
@@Thumper68 W was the code for the engine program that developed the 348-409. Has nothing to do with shape of valve covers. People say covers look like a W and that's why they're called W blocks. GM called them W blocks after the program designation.
OLDSMOBILE four-hundred fifty-five? OLDSMOBILE four-hundred forty-two? NO! It's an OLDS four-fifty-five. It's an OLDS four-four-two. I know. I was there. Had my own.
@@Sabe53 The first 4-4-2 came out in 1964. The same year I assembled and ran my first engine; 61 years ago. One of mine was a 1970; 55 years ago. So, yeah I've known that for a while.
Not a one of those big block chev engines you showed was a W motor. 348 and 409 (Dual Quads or Tri Power) were the W engines. The W is a reference to the shape of the valve covers. The tempest was the base model of the GTO which used a 389 until 1967 when they increased cubic inch to 400. And physically speaking, the castings of the 326 through the 455 were the same basic external dimensions. You do realize that Rambler and AMC are one in the same. Maybe you should stick to topics you actually know something about?
Most powerful W engine was '63 427" of 435+ HP... most powerful BBC 454" of 460 HP was installed... plus over the counter L88 427" 560 HP and LS7 454" 570 HP... The Trophy 4 went to 180 HP...
They forgot the General Motors Holden Australia V8 starting in 1969 in 253 ci and 308 ci it was an Australian only V8 design , Holden engineers went to Detroit to look over all the GM V8s , they picked design features from many GM V8s of the era , most notably the Oldsmobile Rocket , using Olds 350 V8 port layout that only Oldsmobile and Holden uses, along with the Olds 6 deg valve angles and alloy rocker bridges and alloy intake design , but then using SB Chev bore spacing , 4.00 inch bore and 3 1/16 stroke (308 cu) , along with the Pontiac alloy front timing cover design and Caddy V8 external oil pump , Chev rear mount distributor and Rochester Quadrant four barrel carburettor the Holden V8 was picthed to GM Detroit and suprisingly for a smallish volume market Detroit gave Holden the go ahead to cast/build this combination of GM V8 engine design , originally with a bellhousing very close to Oldsmobile but later the Chev small block bellhousing to allow grater range of GM transmissions including Powerglide, T350 and T400 . The 253 ci 4.2 litre and 308 ci 5.0 litre ( really 5.1) lasted untill 1988 when GM Holden needed a new design V8 they looked at single over head cams on the 308 ( now destroked to 3 inch stroke ) 304 ci and many over head cam Holden 5.0 litre injected V8s were produced for testing and there are pictures of production ready 5.0 ohc motors on google , but GM Holden went with a redesign semetrical port head, alloy " bunch of bannas " intake and Delco port fuel injection for the 1988 5.0 injected engine. Google a picture and you will see a V8 that looks very very much like a LS1 from ten years later, infact all of the LS1 design is a copy of the Holden 1988 5.0 litre . But they share no parts, just design , same intake, same port location, same valve train, bellhousing, starter, engine management and much more , but the Holden was 10 years before the LS1 , in the Holden V8s final form in 1997 it was sequential port fuel injection, available in 5.0 litre (304 ci ) and top line Holdens got the 5.8 litre (355ci) V8 then in 1998 the Holden V8 was replaced in the Commadore SS but the LS1 5.7 , But the Holden V8 stands out as probably the rarest in the US GM V8 . Its a shame as you certainly would get some qustions if one of these engines were in a Corvette or Camaro, the bolt anywhere a Chev does to same bellhousing and all mounts/electrical , easy import to US and something GM thats really different. Because we are all sick of seeing LS/LT motors in everything !!! The Holden has plenty of after market support with alloy heads and Edelbrock makes intakes for this V8 .
The whole time that you spoke about the First Big Block Chevrolet Engines that were indeed the W Engines, the 348 and later 409. And Mystery 427. You never showed one photo of it. But of the late Mark IV big blocks and small blocks. I'll now un subscribe.
No the 427 that looks like a 409 is the Z11.. witch is the Mark 1 engine family... the mystery motor 427..is the Mark II engine family witch is the Z33.. both engines had the same bore as the as the 409.. and both had a stroke of 3.65 but they are 2 different types of engines... the Mark II looks like a mark 2 but the value covers are smaller... and nothing will interchange with any engines I mentioned
What, you don't appreciate Packard engine while talking about Cadillac? Or Buick Special car with a 455? As soon as it said 12 anything from anybody we knew not to check this out.
This is the sure fire indicator of AI generated content in which a human doesn’t take the time to even edit it properly. This trend is getting out of control.
Most of this info is incorrect: For instance, Pontiac 326 to 455 are the same block and weigh almost the same so if it fits in one model, it fits in all. And the only weird Pontiac engine was the 4 cylinder that was half of a V-8. All the rest are normal engines found in all models.
They are all legends and examples of the genius people that designed them. All were awesome. I am a MOPAR guy but love GM stuff more and more, seems us Mope or Nope guys tend to dig GM too. BUT-the biggest reason I like GM is because I am a 2 stroke engine lover and proponent, and at the top of this for me, the holy grail, are the FANTASTIC BEYOND ALL WORDS 2 stroke Clark cycle, valve uni-flow Detroit Diesels! Also the bigger Cleveland diesels and the insanely amazing and beautiful EMD large engines and the locomotives they powered! 👍🏻😋 they are more efficient than 4 stroke diesels, smoke far less, sound WONDROUS, and are extremely durable and reliable with minimal maintenance. The greatest diesels in world history hands down, and another great GM design Kettering was in on. Good stuff! 😋👍🏻😊
This is what happens when non car people make a car video. "Let's talk about a W engine and NEVER show a picture of one. While we're at it, talk about a 3X2 carburetor setup and show a picture of a four barrel."
Yeah, 'tis😊 I was confident that I would know of anything mentioned, but, c'mon! No mention of Hemi Oldsmobiles, Olds Jetfire, which was the first production turbocharged engine, or anything else that was actually obscure.
@@mickangio16 - Plus hemi and pent roof 4 valve Olds and Pontiac... Pontiac 303"... RamAir V... The Olds v8 began in 1949... The Pontiac inline 6 shows an inline 2... should have mentioned the inline 6 got OHC... the first Pontiac '326' wasn't one inch smaller than a Chevy 327" because it was actually 336" and taken from earlier 1950s GMC trucks... the lied about its size to get past GM limit of 330" for mid size cars... Some of the Corvette and Pontiac engines shown were actually Chrysler Hemis and Buicks! Pontiac also put the 389 engine in the Tempest body as a GTO... The new LS7" 427 505 HP is 480 torque... Under Cadillac V8 a Packard V8 is shown... the Small Block Chevy V8 was from 262" to 401"...
1970 LT-1 had iron heads with an aluminum intake...Except for the OHC Pontiac V-8 (briefly shown) designed by Malcom McKellar, these are all well-known, mainstream GM engines.
The LT-1 from Chevy had a configuration that was different than other V8’s.its optispark distributor was mounted behind the water pump, a lot of mechanics did not want work on this engine if the optispark failed.
I had a friend 50 years ago who had a Pontiac Tempest with a stock 6 cylinder engine. It had a small 4 barrel carb resembling a quadrajet, (Small primaries, larger secondaries. It produced, by the book, 215 horses.
8:17 LT1 produced 370 horsepower and 80 pound-feet of torque? Are you sure about that? 11:03 A bent crank shaft? Are you sure about that? I'd heard about the flexible shaft curved torque tube, but a bent crank shaft is a new one on me. Do you mean a cross-plane drive shaft? 12:45 What is a Porsche doing in a discussion of a Pontiac engine? Or a '61 Buick for an engine introduced in 1963? And the '63 " 326" was actually 336 cubic inches, running afoul of the GM limit of 330 cubes in amid-size model, redesigned for '64 to match the advertised displacement. 15:33 Not sure what that is, but it's not a '49 Cadiddle-Yak V8. Floor shift and hand brake lever? Wasn't the 452 a narrow-angle sixteen? 15:56 And what is a Packard twelve aircraft engine doing here? I wasn't aware that Packard was a GM brand. Packard people wouldn't be seen dead in a Caddy. Henry Ford went to his final reward in a Packard because there were no Ford-chassis funeral coaches available and the family was afraid that if they sent the old man out in the Caddy LaSalle available from the mortuary handling the arrangements, he'd get out and walk. 17:16 The Buick "Nailhead" was introduced in model year 1953 at 322 cubic inches fir the senior models and 263 cubes for the smaller Special. The Wildcat 445 (401 cubes) and Wildcat 465 (425 cubes) were named for their respective SAE Gross torque ratings. Anybody watching this video would have heard about every one of these engines, nothing particularly weird about them. Where were the aluminum 215 V8s used in the BOP compacts on '61-'63? Where was the horizontal-valve Oakland V8? Who researched and edited this shit?
In the mid 70's, you couldn't say lower emissions AND fuel efficiency. I had a neighbor who insisted on towing a huge Airstream trailer with a 1975 Cadillac El Dorado swearing that he needed that huge 500 cubic inch engine to haul that pile of scrap metal around. He was kind of shocked to see in my Chilton manual that the 1975 500 Cadillac put out only 210 horses. The same as the Ford 302 for 1968 or my old 307 Chevy for 1968 at 200. UHHH, now he understands why it ran well around flatland Florida but turned to shit around south Georgia.
My parents had a 1971 Pontiac Catalina with a 4 bbl 455 in it. The engine had an anti ping additive in a can attached to it. Strange. Getting a replacement full of their anti ping fluid was costly, but necessary for the high compression the engine had. Even with the additive the engine ran terrible. There was nothing mechanically wrong with it, it just needed high octane fuel, which was becoming scarce at the time. When the gas crunch hit my parents made the mistake of trading it in on a Chevy Monza 2,300 4cyl car. The Monza was just a Vega with a face lift. They had that car 11 months and the engine was replaced twice under warranty. After 11 months they traded it in on a Pinto, which ran much better and was more reliable. They bought the Pinto after Ford fixed the gas tank issue and were happy with it for several years.
I am surprised that you did not mention the overhead cam six from Pontiac. It was a wonderful engine that with a small amount of tuning could and often did destroy the v-8s of its time.
I was surprised by the Trophy Four and the Caddy sixteen and Packard Twelve marine engines shown. The video claims to feature GM V8s. Who edited this shit?
Never touch the 327 300 hp to 375 hp on the Ram Jet fuel-injected version built from 1962 to 1965. People were scared of these engines because of the 2 bolt mains. I don't know why, built right they were a powerhouse to be reckoned with on the street. I took a stock 327 300 and pumped it up to around 420 hp. in a Camaro. Running high 11 seconds on gas before NHRA had shortened the Quarter Mile by about 300 feet.
I am a combustion engineer, Jet Engine.......however I find cast iron and pushrods just a wee bit too quaint 4 me...however the new mid engined corvette...
Talking about Fireball Roberts winning the Daytona 500 in a Pontiac but posing in front of a Ford. LT-1 80 lb.s torque? Several incorrect pictures. Did Alan Gold give permission to use his images? I'd be mad if I was him.
Talking about a 326 Pontiac and showing a Chrysler Hemi!! This video title is what's weird, the video just shows old factory engines that GM made over the years!!!
Another inaccurate description of the LT1 all of the 70-72 that I worked on had iron heads only some of the Gen 2 LT ones of the 90s had aluminum heads get your photographs in order to showing pictures of engines that aren't even in the description
Should be called 12 standard production GM engines that you already know more about then I do, And what the hell is up with the pictures of the wrong engines, most of the pictures were completely wrong. Hell at one point i saw a picture of a 351 Cleveland! Yeah a Ford engine on a video on GM engines🤦
the video footage doesn't match the series of motor, heads in the wrong position in the video, do research on the video input like you obviously did for your audio, after i saw some of the huge mistakes Ive been writing this just listening to the words and not alowing the video to foul up the info
CLICKBAIT ! Artificial intelligence might be great if you know nothing about cars or engines, but at least fact check the video that results from your zero effort. Your robot calls a '60 Corvette a '63, shows a Buick but calls it a Pontiac, etc etc. The problem is, people that don't know any better can potentially take this as fact. Not that it would matter to you…
Well you talk about a Pontiac 4 cylinder then you show the OhV 6 cylinder then you talk about the Chevy 348/409 then you show the small block and big block your misslead people
You showed us everything but a casworth vega engine or a pancake 6 corvair. I liked the 63 vette and the "327" Chrysler hemi. Tell us you really cant tell shit from applebutter.
another AI made video full of misinfo, Lt1 of this year wasn't cross drilled, didn't have aluminum heads, silicon aluminum pistons were not around then,
Stopped 1 minute and 8 seconds in. Obviously a computer generated narration. If not it is a human that does not know that it's a four fifty five not a four hundred fifty five. It is an Oldsmobile 4-4-2 not a four hundred forty two.
This video is pure bull. Instead of "12 WEIRD GM V-8 Engines You've NEVER Heard Of," it should be 12 legendary engines EVERYONE has heard of." UA-cam is full of AI videos about muscle cars like this one. They have clickbait titles, and they are full of unsupportable assertions and mistakes. These videos are worthless as sources of information. Thumbs down.
Like so many of these videos, it is ruined by the stupid script, written by stupid people who really know nothing about engines, and clearly have not worked on them. Calling them weird or strange is beyond stupid. Just because some dimwit who put this together never heard of these engines does not mean that everyone else hasn't.
Weird engines we never herd of …?? What a load of Shit, every second back yard in New Zealand has a couple of each kicking around…!!! HEMI’S still rule…!!!
I heard of all those engines nothing weird about them! Sad truth is I know way more about all of them than this dumb axx video as Elmer Kieth said, hell I was there!
AI (Almost Intelligence), this vid is full of mistakes, omissions and mismatched pics ( Hemi's, etc.), a bonehead bs presentation of the 1963 326 which was actually 336 cubic inches (missing). The Cadillac v8 engine showing a V16 and a Packard. AI is crap and needs to be withdrawn until it can get to an acceptable accuracy level. I'm done. Big thumbs down. 👎🏻
Classic “Listicle” of ten years ago turned into a video. No new information, most of it wrong, under a clickbait title. Downvoting and blocking channel.
i have a 69 olds 455 and 2 of the W motors 348 and the 409, it (AI) didn't even show one pic of that unique motor is that segment, another ai joke, never finish, never watch this channel again
I didn't see any motor that was odd plus if you're going to talk about it at least show it you didn't show 1 w motor all you showed was bbc& sbc so I'll say it this video SUCKS!!!!
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Those engines weren't weird, this video is.
And AMC & Rambler were the same company 🤦
The ai voice is just sad.
@@SirHC888 Agreed. Nobody says "Pontiac/Olds four hundred and fifty five". It's just four fifty five for those who are actual humans. I stopped watching after the first 2 "weird GM engines I've never heard of". LOL
"12 weird engines you've never heard of " Then immediately starts name legendary engines that most gearheads covet.
Keep showing engines that aren't what their talking about. 348-409 W had nothing too do with valve covers. GM was working on three engine development programs at the time, codes W, X, and Y, the W engine won .
@@Sabe53YES like showing the LT1. One thing he didn't get from Google are 1st ,2nd generation.
These channels are easy to get subs and views with these clickbait titles they’re making money reading ai scripts
@@Sabe53what are you talking about the heads were unique offset valves and the engine deck was 74 degrees making the 16 degree wedge shape combustion chamber with the slightly recessed flat head surface hence the w series
@@Thumper68 W was the code for the engine program that developed the 348-409. Has nothing to do with shape of valve covers. People say covers look like a W and that's why they're called W blocks. GM called them W blocks after the program designation.
This video may set a new record for the most miss identified pictures in a video.
Oldsmobile 455 was a standard Oldsmobile engine.
And the Pontiac 455 was a Standard engine.
The Buick 455 was a standard engine.
Not a WEIRD Engine.
None a big block, either... this guy should run his scripts past a knowledgeable older person before creating a laughable video...
Buick and Oldsmobile were 455. Pontiac and Chevrolet were 454. They were pretty common in some models.
En realidad es el mismo motor GM para todas las compañias GM con liegras modificaciones Todos pasaron por mis manos y todos EXELENTES motores
The 350LT1 didn't have aluminum heads it had the 186 iron double hump heads
I was thinking the same thing. Also, at the 7:34ish mark, that’s me degreeing a cam in an LT1. How did I end up in this video?
@@2HacksGarageit must be odd to see yourself in a random video that you had nothing to do with
@@itylxrrr4163especially one that’s obviously AI generated
@@2HacksGarage yeah because this video was really educational so fair use is out the window?
And those flat top pistons weren't for the '70 LT1, either...
OLDSMOBILE four-hundred fifty-five? OLDSMOBILE four-hundred forty-two? NO! It's an OLDS four-fifty-five. It's an OLDS four-four-two. I know. I was there. Had my own.
442 was not the engine size it was a Cutlass model. 4 barrel, 4 speed 2 exhaust.
AI only reads the words, it doesn't know the terminology.
@@Sabe53 The first 4-4-2 came out in 1964. The same year I assembled and ran my first engine; 61 years ago. One of mine was a 1970; 55 years ago. So, yeah I've known that for a while.
@@victordjinn632 I had a 63 Cutlass 2 door coup, all aluminum 215 4 bbl, 4 speed, dual exhaust. Car hauled a$$.
Me too I know my self because I owned one my self and I built it for my self
Not a one of those big block chev engines you showed was a W motor. 348 and 409 (Dual Quads or Tri Power) were the W engines. The W is a reference to the shape of the valve covers. The tempest was the base model of the GTO which used a 389 until 1967 when they increased cubic inch to 400. And physically speaking, the castings of the 326 through the 455 were the same basic external dimensions. You do realize that Rambler and AMC are one in the same. Maybe you should stick to topics you actually know something about?
Probably bumbling A.I. data derived from all the incorrect bs on the internet.
Most powerful W engine was '63 427" of 435+ HP... most powerful BBC 454" of 460 HP was installed... plus over the counter L88 427" 560 HP and LS7 454" 570 HP... The Trophy 4 went to 180 HP...
How silly
Like doing comparison tests on saltine crackers, perhaps? This guy is sure not bashful about putting his ignorance on full public display!
I've heard of all these engines.
Chevy LT-1 370 hp 80 foot pounds of torque @8.20 is this AI ? I want my money back
Although early '70 Corvette literature showed a 370 HP LT1, none were installed, just the milder cammed 360 HP version... and like 380 torque...
I knew someone would comment on that.
They forgot the General Motors Holden Australia V8 starting in 1969 in 253 ci and 308 ci it was an Australian only V8 design , Holden engineers went to Detroit to look over all the GM V8s , they picked design features from many GM V8s of the era , most notably the Oldsmobile Rocket , using Olds 350 V8 port layout that only Oldsmobile and Holden uses, along with the Olds 6 deg valve angles and alloy rocker bridges and alloy intake design , but then using SB Chev bore spacing , 4.00 inch bore and 3 1/16 stroke (308 cu) , along with the Pontiac alloy front timing cover design and Caddy V8 external oil pump , Chev rear mount distributor and Rochester Quadrant four barrel carburettor the Holden V8 was picthed to GM Detroit and suprisingly for a smallish volume market Detroit gave Holden the go ahead to cast/build this combination of GM V8 engine design , originally with a bellhousing very close to Oldsmobile but later the Chev small block bellhousing to allow grater range of GM transmissions including Powerglide, T350 and T400 . The 253 ci 4.2 litre and 308 ci 5.0 litre ( really 5.1) lasted untill 1988 when GM Holden needed a new design V8 they looked at single over head cams on the 308 ( now destroked to 3 inch stroke ) 304 ci and many over head cam Holden 5.0 litre injected V8s were produced for testing and there are pictures of production ready 5.0 ohc motors on google , but GM Holden went with a redesign semetrical port head, alloy " bunch of bannas " intake and Delco port fuel injection for the 1988 5.0 injected engine. Google a picture and you will see a V8 that looks very very much like a LS1 from ten years later, infact all of the LS1 design is a copy of the Holden 1988 5.0 litre . But they share no parts, just design , same intake, same port location, same valve train, bellhousing, starter, engine management and much more , but the Holden was 10 years before the LS1 , in the Holden V8s final form in 1997 it was sequential port fuel injection, available in 5.0 litre (304 ci ) and top line Holdens got the 5.8 litre (355ci) V8 then in 1998 the Holden V8 was replaced in the Commadore SS but the LS1 5.7 , But the Holden V8 stands out as probably the rarest in the US GM V8 . Its a shame as you certainly would get some qustions if one of these engines were in a Corvette or Camaro, the bolt anywhere a Chev does to same bellhousing and all mounts/electrical , easy import to US and something GM thats really different. Because we are all sick of seeing LS/LT motors in everything !!! The Holden has plenty of after market support with alloy heads and Edelbrock makes intakes for this V8 .
The whole time that you spoke about the First Big Block Chevrolet Engines that were indeed the W Engines, the 348 and later 409. And Mystery 427. You never showed one photo of it. But of the late Mark IV big blocks and small blocks. I'll now un subscribe.
Also had the introduction year wrong saying '59 instead of '58 and saying it ended in '61 when it was in '65.Dumb video
No the 427 that looks like a 409 is the Z11.. witch is the Mark 1 engine family... the mystery motor 427..is the Mark II engine family witch is the Z33.. both engines had the same bore as the as the 409.. and both had a stroke of 3.65 but they are 2 different types of engines... the Mark II looks like a mark 2 but the value covers are smaller... and nothing will interchange with any engines I mentioned
Looks like a mark 4
I wish the correct engines would show on the video matching the narrator, pretty pathetic 😮
What, you don't appreciate Packard engine while talking about Cadillac? Or Buick Special car with a 455? As soon as it said 12 anything from anybody we knew not to check this out.
This is the sure fire indicator of AI generated content in which a human doesn’t take the time to even edit it properly. This trend is getting out of control.
Im old & forgot a lot but i still now more then the info from this channel
Most of this info is incorrect: For instance, Pontiac 326 to 455 are the same block and weigh almost the same so if it fits in one model, it fits in all. And the only weird Pontiac engine was the 4 cylinder that was half of a V-8. All the rest are normal engines found in all models.
Don't forget the 301
They are all legends and examples of the genius people that designed them. All were awesome. I am a MOPAR guy but love GM stuff more and more, seems us Mope or Nope guys tend to dig GM too. BUT-the biggest reason I like GM is because I am a 2 stroke engine lover and proponent, and at the top of this for me, the holy grail, are the FANTASTIC BEYOND ALL WORDS 2 stroke Clark cycle, valve uni-flow Detroit Diesels! Also the bigger Cleveland diesels and the insanely amazing and beautiful EMD large engines and the locomotives they powered! 👍🏻😋 they are more efficient than 4 stroke diesels, smoke far less, sound WONDROUS, and are extremely durable and reliable with minimal maintenance. The greatest diesels in world history hands down, and another great GM design Kettering was in on. Good stuff! 😋👍🏻😊
This is what happens when non car people make a car video. "Let's talk about a W engine and NEVER show a picture of one. While we're at it, talk about a 3X2 carburetor setup and show a picture of a four barrel."
Talking about 1 engine while showing another. I'm dizzy 🥴
Tis sad. Even way down here in New Zealand, I have heard of all these engines. Kinda of hoping for something funky
Yeah, 'tis😊 I was confident that I would know of anything mentioned, but, c'mon! No mention of Hemi Oldsmobiles, Olds Jetfire, which was the first production turbocharged engine, or anything else that was actually obscure.
@@mickangio16 - Plus hemi and pent roof 4 valve Olds and Pontiac... Pontiac 303"... RamAir V... The Olds v8 began in 1949... The Pontiac inline 6 shows an inline 2... should have mentioned the inline 6 got OHC... the first Pontiac '326' wasn't one inch smaller than a Chevy 327" because it was actually 336" and taken from earlier 1950s GMC trucks... the lied about its size to get past GM limit of 330" for mid size cars... Some of the Corvette and Pontiac engines shown were actually Chrysler Hemis and Buicks! Pontiac also put the 389 engine in the Tempest body as a GTO... The new LS7" 427 505 HP is 480 torque... Under Cadillac V8 a Packard V8 is shown... the Small Block Chevy V8 was from 262" to 401"...
How about showing 348 engines while talking about them???
I had to tune-up a 4-4-2 with a 455C and factory ACI! The back 2 plugs on the passenger's side was almost impossible!
Some of the engine details in this video are indeed correct
1970 LT-1 had iron heads with an aluminum intake...Except for the OHC Pontiac V-8 (briefly shown) designed by Malcom McKellar, these are all well-known, mainstream GM engines.
The LT-1 from Chevy had a configuration that was different than other V8’s.its optispark distributor was mounted behind the water pump, a lot of mechanics did not want work on this engine if the optispark failed.
I had a friend 50 years ago who had a Pontiac Tempest with a stock 6 cylinder engine. It had a small 4 barrel carb resembling a quadrajet, (Small primaries, larger secondaries. It produced, by the book, 215 horses.
8:17 LT1 produced 370 horsepower and 80 pound-feet of torque? Are you sure about that?
11:03 A bent crank shaft? Are you sure about that? I'd heard about the flexible shaft curved torque tube, but a bent crank shaft is a new one on me. Do you mean a cross-plane drive shaft?
12:45 What is a Porsche doing in a discussion of a Pontiac engine? Or a '61 Buick for an engine introduced in 1963? And the '63 " 326" was actually 336 cubic inches, running afoul of the GM limit of 330 cubes in amid-size model, redesigned for '64 to match the advertised displacement.
15:33 Not sure what that is, but it's not a '49 Cadiddle-Yak V8. Floor shift and hand brake lever? Wasn't the 452 a narrow-angle sixteen?
15:56 And what is a Packard twelve aircraft engine doing here? I wasn't aware that Packard was a GM brand. Packard people wouldn't be seen dead in a Caddy. Henry Ford went to his final reward in a Packard because there were no Ford-chassis funeral coaches available and the family was afraid that if they sent the old man out in the Caddy LaSalle available from the mortuary handling the arrangements, he'd get out and walk.
17:16 The Buick "Nailhead" was introduced in model year 1953 at 322 cubic inches fir the senior models and 263 cubes for the smaller Special. The Wildcat 445 (401 cubes) and Wildcat 465 (425 cubes) were named for their respective SAE Gross torque ratings.
Anybody watching this video would have heard about every one of these engines, nothing particularly weird about them.
Where were the aluminum 215 V8s used in the BOP compacts on '61-'63?
Where was the horizontal-valve Oakland V8?
Who researched and edited this shit?
Some of your info is correct !
Must be some of that new kind of math he's using
In the mid 70's, you couldn't say lower emissions AND fuel efficiency. I had a neighbor who insisted on towing a huge Airstream trailer with a 1975 Cadillac El Dorado swearing that he needed that huge 500 cubic inch engine to haul that pile of scrap metal around. He was kind of shocked to see in my Chilton manual that the 1975 500 Cadillac put out only 210 horses. The same as the Ford 302 for 1968 or my old 307 Chevy for 1968 at 200. UHHH, now he understands why it ran well around flatland Florida but turned to shit around south Georgia.
My parents had a 1971 Pontiac Catalina with a 4 bbl 455 in it. The engine had an anti ping additive in a can attached to it. Strange. Getting a replacement full of their anti ping fluid was costly, but necessary for the high compression the engine had. Even with the additive the engine ran terrible. There was nothing mechanically wrong with it, it just needed high octane fuel, which was becoming scarce at the time. When the gas crunch hit my parents made the mistake of trading it in on a Chevy Monza 2,300 4cyl car. The Monza was just a Vega with a face lift. They had that car 11 months and the engine was replaced twice under warranty. After 11 months they traded it in on a Pinto, which ran much better and was more reliable. They bought the Pinto after Ford fixed the gas tank issue and were happy with it for several years.
- Simple kerosene would have worked as an anti ping agent... an ounce per tank of gas...
The Monza was available with Chevy V8...
I am surprised that you did not mention the overhead cam six from Pontiac. It was a wonderful engine that with a small amount of tuning could and often did destroy the v-8s of its time.
I was surprised by the Trophy Four and the Caddy sixteen and Packard Twelve marine engines shown. The video claims to feature GM V8s.
Who edited this shit?
I’m no gear head but I knew that whoever made this video was in over their heads. It was ridiculous, full of errors.
They start talking about the LT-1 then throw in both the '90s Chevy LT1 and the modern GM LT1, with a TPI SBC as well because why the hell not
“Like the Oldsmobile four hundred forty two”?? AI Narrated.
More mistakes than I care to point out.
More errors than a Braves game.
Worthless AI generated garbage video
How are these engines, weird never heard of engines? I know all of them. I worked on most of them. I swear some videos on here make zero sense.
i hate when they use ai to narrate you can tell by the way they name the engines unlike normal people.
Never touch the 327 300 hp to 375 hp on the Ram Jet fuel-injected version built from 1962 to 1965. People were scared of these engines because of the 2 bolt mains. I don't know why, built right they were a powerhouse to be reckoned with on the street. I took a stock 327 300 and pumped it up to around 420 hp. in a Camaro. Running high 11 seconds on gas before NHRA had shortened the Quarter Mile by about 300 feet.
I am a combustion engineer, Jet Engine.......however I find cast iron and pushrods just a wee bit too quaint 4 me...however the new mid engined corvette...
Cool old motors
Four,four, two, four barrel carb, four speed trans,and dual exhaust.
- Later 400", 4 speed, duals...
I can't handle the way they call out engine sizes in this video, it's just wrong.
The original LT1 did not have aluminum heads
missed the Buick 350.
The 455 replaced the 428 not the 421
They stated that the last year for the 421 ho was 63 and they were in the Catalina 2+2's in 65.
Talking about Fireball Roberts winning the Daytona 500 in a Pontiac but posing in front of a Ford. LT-1 80 lb.s torque? Several incorrect pictures. Did Alan Gold give permission to use his images? I'd be mad if I was him.
ALL common engines. No surprises here.
Funny, I knew of every one of these so called "weird" engines.
The Olds 455 is the best engine.
We had a 348 W in a 58 chevy sta. wagon.
Pontiac 455! TransAm! Glenn
Sad what IA can't do So many wrong here.
The Caddy 452 was NOT a V8. It's a V16.
AI is weird/odd ! Nothing weird at all about ANY of these Engines that everyone that is anyone has already heard of long ago ! 😏🤨😒🤔
Maybe I'm special, I've seen and buil,r many/ all? Before 22 years old , they were common as pigeons 😂
ok where is the gm (holden austalia) 253 and 308
Talking about a 326 Pontiac and showing a Chrysler Hemi!! This video title is what's weird, the video just shows old factory engines that GM made over the years!!!
Other than those 12????
Nothing strange about it just good ole skool cubic inches GM has .
Another inaccurate description of the LT1 all of the 70-72 that I worked on had iron heads only some of the Gen 2 LT ones of the 90s had aluminum heads get your photographs in order to showing pictures of engines that aren't even in the description
lot of incorrect images here, also whats weird about all these?
make your pictures match the motor
Should be called 12 standard production GM engines that you already know more about then I do, And what the hell is up with the pictures of the wrong engines, most of the pictures were completely wrong. Hell at one point i saw a picture of a 351 Cleveland! Yeah a Ford engine on a video on GM engines🤦
This guy lacks a lot of knowledge on GM V8 engines. They were some of greatest engines and still are in classic cars.
the video footage doesn't match the series of motor, heads in the wrong position in the video, do research on the video input like you obviously did for your audio, after i saw some of the huge mistakes Ive been writing this just listening to the words and not alowing the video to foul up the info
CLICKBAIT ! Artificial intelligence might be great if you know nothing about cars or engines, but at least fact check the video that results from your zero effort. Your robot calls a '60 Corvette a '63, shows a Buick but calls it a Pontiac, etc etc. The problem is, people that don't know any better can potentially take this as fact. Not that it would matter to you…
Yep. run videos past someone before releasing disinformation...
Pontiac 389.and 326.used the same block how was it lighter than a 389? Cadillac never made a 452 it made a 425 in that design 20:58
I wonder what illegal substances this guy OD'd on?!
If would be nice if the people making these videos knew what the hell they're talking about
FORD DESIGNED THE CHEVY SMALL BLOCK THE 265 ci AND SOLD THE DESIGN TO GM. THEIR IS MORE TO THIS BUT I AM STOPPING HERE...
Try again and get it right.
Show the engine that you are talking about 😂
this video is all over the place. random screenshots and false information
Just because you use the words weir or odd doesn't make it so. Make a quality video instead of using clickbait terms and photos.
what are you smoking
A I strikes again!
= so freaking IN-CORRECT = this is STUPID !!! =
Well you talk about a Pontiac 4 cylinder then you show the OhV 6 cylinder then you talk about the Chevy 348/409 then you show the small block and big block your misslead people
You showed us everything but a casworth vega engine or a pancake 6 corvair. I liked the 63 vette and the "327" Chrysler hemi. Tell us you really cant tell shit from applebutter.
Don't waste your time watching this weird video. The narrating and photos are wrong throughout.
Artificial intelligence generated videos should be demonetized because they're full of misinformation.
The 348 "W" engine came out in 1958 not '59
another AI made video full of misinfo, Lt1 of this year wasn't cross drilled, didn't have aluminum heads, silicon aluminum pistons were not around then,
Stopped 1 minute and 8 seconds in. Obviously a computer generated narration. If not it is a human that does not know that it's a four fifty five not a four hundred fifty five. It is an Oldsmobile 4-4-2 not a four hundred forty two.
This video is pure bull. Instead of "12 WEIRD GM V-8 Engines You've NEVER Heard Of," it should be 12 legendary engines EVERYONE has heard of." UA-cam is full of AI videos about muscle cars like this one. They have clickbait titles, and they are full of unsupportable assertions and mistakes. These videos are worthless as sources of information. Thumbs down.
Like so many of these videos, it is ruined by the stupid script, written by stupid people who really know nothing about engines, and clearly have not worked on them. Calling them weird or strange is beyond stupid. Just because some dimwit who put this together never heard of these engines does not mean that everyone else hasn't.
Weird engines we never herd of …?? What a load of Shit, every second back yard in New Zealand has a couple of each kicking around…!!! HEMI’S still rule…!!!
I heard of all those engines nothing weird about them! Sad truth is I know way more about all of them than this dumb axx video as Elmer Kieth said, hell I was there!
AI (Almost Intelligence), this vid is full of mistakes, omissions and mismatched pics ( Hemi's, etc.), a bonehead bs presentation of the 1963 326 which was actually 336 cubic inches (missing). The Cadillac v8 engine showing a V16 and a Packard. AI is crap and needs to be withdrawn until it can get to an acceptable accuracy level. I'm done. Big thumbs down. 👎🏻
Classic “Listicle” of ten years ago turned into a video. No new information, most of it wrong, under a clickbait title. Downvoting and blocking channel.
How silly
Very sad video! None of these engines are "weird" You obviously do not know what you are talking about!
i have a 69 olds 455 and 2 of the W motors 348 and the 409, it (AI) didn't even show one pic of that unique motor is that segment, another ai joke, never finish, never watch this channel again
This video is terrible.
again with the sodding AI narration? tisk.
What's wrong you guys too cheap to obtain a "real" example of a W engine there are plenty of them out there....cheapskates!
I didn't see any motor that was odd plus if you're going to talk about it at least show it you didn't show 1 w motor all you showed was bbc& sbc so I'll say it this video SUCKS!!!!
These shitty AI videos need to go away
Garbage video. Thumbs down
Terrible video-!