Forgot the 1971 Ford Boss 351 C. All 4V canted valve Cleveland heads had 2.19” intake valves and 1.71” exhaust valves, and huge ports! Not only the biggest valves and ports of any small block, bigger than many big blocks. And the rare 1971 only Boss version of the 351 Cleveland had a solid lifter cam, push rod guide plates, 11.3 to one compression, a 780 Holly carb, hi-rise aluminum intake, header style exhaust manifolds, 4 bolt main block. Underrated at 330 HP. Saw a stock Boss 351 with the exception of headers put out around 380 HP on a dyno.
You are so right. Even the Cleveland engine rated @ 300 HP, actually put out 351 HP & 391 ft lbs of torque. I had a 71 Torino GT with that engine, & it would give the Chevy Chevelle with the 360 & 375 HP engines a run for their money, & could take overhaul of the Chevy' s I raced ! These were all 396 cube engines.
@@gregpremo6898 There were 1600 Boss 351 cars made. The Boss 351 had an Autolite Spread bore, carb because the Holley couldn't pass emission laws without an air pump., I know because i replaced my Intake manifold and Carb for the pre-production ford Manifold that would except a Holley. a real aluminum Ford Squair bore intake today is expensive, but blue thunder makes a re-pop for less than half.
@@shawntailor5485 , most were not Canadian. Only the late 1964 and all of the 1965-66 cars were made only in Hamilton after South Bend was shut down. And all of the 1965-66 cars had Chevy powertrains (194, 230, 283) from Oshawa after the South Bend engine plant was shut down.
@@congerthomas1812 The engine,if High Output, has HO on the intake manifold. If I remember correctly from 54 years ago is on drivers side just toward firewall from carb.
Engines convert forms of energy into motion. In this case, engines are converting chemical energy from gasoline into kinetic energy. Motors do not convert stored energy. They merely use energy from an outside source. This external energy can come from steam, electricity, or other external sources.
Technically speaking, anything electric (mainly referring to electric motors) is really a motor, anything combustion is an engine. Gasoline engines, diesel engines, jet engines, gas turbine engines, rocket engines, steam engines, are really engines not motors, but we just refer to them as motors sometimes, kind of a nickname.
The AMC was and American Motors second generation V8. it was later stroked to 304 cubic inches along with an increased deck height and better designed heads. The Gen 2 engines were available in 290, 343 and 390 cubic inches while the Gen 3 raised deck engines were available in 304, 360 and 401 cubic inches. In 1969 AMC wanted to get into drag racing and they hired two teams to see how much power racers could get out of a 390. The answer was 529 horsepower. This was in custom built form. AMC also tried their hand in Trans Am racing. They enjoyed periods of dominance in both of these types of racing, but they didn’t do as well in NASCAR.
@@roadking99jokerst60 That was a gimmick Ford came out with when they made the King Cobra, they were trying to make a Fake Trans/AM, they turned the hood scoop around and put 5.0 decals on the scoop sides just like teh 6.6 on the trans/AM. They were trying to capture some of the Smokey fame.
I ownd all the small blocks, a 265, put in a 33 ford, a 283, in a 57 Chevy, a 327, in a 65 impala SS 2 dr, at 300Hp, another 327, in a 68 Camaro, 250Hp, and loved them all!
Did I miss it? What about the 273 cu in engine in cars like the Dart? My first car was a 66 Dart Gt 273 cu in 4 speed 4bbl 235 hp. My cousin owned it before me and used it for drag racing. He said he never lost to a Mustang with a 289.
Whoever made this video found some old car magazines in a thrift shop and decided to make a video. (The H.P. 273 1966 Dart is a neat little car with a great engine.)
I had a '65 Barrucuda with that engine. I ordered it while I was still in the US Army in Germany, and picked it up at the factory on my way home after I got out. It was
Sorry, wrong about the AMC 290. Thousands were built with 2-BBL carbs and installed in all sorts of sedans and station wagons. The HO-290 was rare, but the run of the mill version featured the same forged lower end. Mostly carb, compression, cam, and ignition timing made the 290-HO different. Was a runner. Was also redesigned to become the 304 that went can-AM racing 😅
Nearly every engine that came out of Detroit in 1970 was quite underrated for insurance purposes.NHRA caught on,and refactored a number of them.Chevy’s ‘67 327 QuadraJet was rated at factory 275hp.70 Dodge 340 Magnum with a 750cfm Thermoquad carb,more aggressive in every way,was also rated at 275hp.My estimate is that they were more like 320hp.I’m guessing the 340six-pack was 340-350hp.
Fords 289 and 302 V8's were the most bullet proof on the road. I had 5 of them. Fords Boss 302 1970, was rated at 290, but was actually closer to 350 H.P. The Boss 351 had 383 HP.
Is this crap video make by AI with a robot narrating it? It's just bizarre. small BLOCK motor. Reminds me of a group of guys back in the high school days hanging out in someone's garage bench racing. Out of 6 guys, maybe one or two half way knew what he was talking about.
That was the Parker Valve Camshaft Actuator, powered by compressed air allowing short bursts of Parkerized Air to burst out of the Parker Valve to help actuate the spinning of the Camshaft (s). Google it if you don't believe me. They were pure hell with small block drag racing engines. Can't believe you've never heard about Parker Valve Camshaft Blowers. They are ultra rare, though.
@@sarahstephens5966I remember when the Pantera came out, they had a bad design in their cooling system and they would overheat. The engines were fine in other vehicles. A lot were put in boats.
@sarahstephens5966 not exactly that's like saying all Pontiac s are big blocks because of their dimensions. There are just Pancho blocks. They not unlike AMC are based on bore and stroke not dimensions.
What about the 350 LT1 solid lifter cam 370 HP small block that came in the 1970 Camaros? Also, you said the 64 1/2 Mistang was the only car with a 1/2 year model. Wasn't there a 70 1/2 split bumper Camaro?
1918 Chevrolet model D V8 4000 built. 288 cu. in. 4.7L overhead valves 36 HP at 2700 rpm. Featuring an aluminum water-cooled intake manifold. The starter is in the valley of the block, as well as the gear driven generator with the fan clutch coming off of it. I'd say that is the rarest V8
@@buzzwaldron6195 Don't know where you guys grew up, but if you were ever in a bench racing session, never has anyone contributed, "my Hemi makes well over 450 "pound feet" of torque. Gear head people just don't talk like that. Even Motors repair manuals from the past, specified all their eng. stats in "ft/lbs'. (Like, ya know?)
How could the AMC 290 be one of the first engines AMC made, when AMC came out with a 250 CI V8 as early as 1956, after ten there was the 287, 327, 343 then the 290, 390, 360 and 401, The 290 came out in 1968 that is 12 years to late to be first
WRONG, Oldsmobile had small blocks. And Big blocks. They are correct W31 350. W30,was 455. Oddly the Olds 403 was a small block . The 400s of the late 60s were big blocks
The 1957 283 was the first to have 1 hp for each cubic inch At 283 HP. The 1956 Crysler HEMI 354 was the first to have more than 1 hp per inch Rated at 355 HP.
1968 Pontiac Ram Air II 400 CID Firebirds. They are in pure stock racing only topped by a few big block Corvettes and few Chrysler 426 Hemi's. Very rare option in the one year only offering. In 1969 the Ram Air IV engine replaced it. You missed this one.
Most of our cars back them were crude machines with lots of raw power. I had a 68 Chevelle having a slight overbore that made it 408 ci, a General Kinetics camshaft with not outrageous lift and timing, ported small port 454 heads and intake with a cleaned up quadrajet carb and stock headers running into 2 1/2 inch pipes and Walker glass pack mufflers. Stock 4 speed box and 3.56 rear gears. Best ever time at Englishtown, NJ; it laid down an 11.68 at 118. I often wondered what it would have done had it been a 4 bolt main bearing block with higher compression heads, etc, etc. It was a beast like it was but it did not handle well and the brake system was inadequate at best.
That depends how you define "rare", and the same RAII was also used in the GTO. This is about the engine, not the application. Compare the RAII to the total production of Ferrari in 1968. Rare or uncommon?
@@jeffbranch8072 Ferrari vrs a domestic mass-produced engine. You must be joking. Not to mention it would takes 3X the money in a Farrari just to match a factory Ram air II fire bird.
@@jeffbranch8072 You meant, "what IS rare about any of them?" well just try finding a 273 cid Chrysler engine from the 1960's era today, for that matter the other 'great' V8 the 318 cid is rare too. How many of Pontiac's 267 V8's can you find at your local scrap yard today?
Fords High Compression 289 was way more rare than the D code 289. Almost 2 million mustangs produced from 1964-1967. Little over 13,000 of those had the (HIPO) 289. That’s less than 1%.
Oh come on! 623 AMC 290 V8 ever made? No, no, no! The 290 was in MASS production and used in many AMC cars from the American all the way up to the Ambassador in 1966-1969. It came in 2 bbl and 4 bbl versions. While AMC products are more uncommon today there's nothing "rare" about a 290 at all. The closest thing to "rare" about a 290 **might** be how many are actually still left in Javelins and AMX's that haven't been swapped out for a 390. Research much?
Small blocks are just as much of a gas guzzler as a big block. I can speak from personal experience. It's all in the configuration and technology of the engine. Case in point 305 gets just as bad as a 454 the carbureted version anyways. Small blocks were designed for better weight transfer and higher RPM range. Pollution ain't got nothing to do with it. Especially when you got small blocks that are still in the 7 liter range.
My experience is if an engine has enough power, you don't have to keep your foot into it all the time you will get better fuel economy. Gutless engines hog up fuel Because you make them work more.
And why the hell on those older engines that were sized as Cubic inches did you have to describe them in liters ?????Who the hell knew what the hell you were talking about ????? and so many small blocks left out !!! geeees !!
You forgot the Ford 240 V8 they put in the Sunbeam Tigers. Probably the smallest small block. I worked for Wickes Furniture as a service repairman and they ordered our 73 Ford Econoline van with a Boss 302 and 3 on the tree. It was fast enough.
I believe the LT5 Corvette engine was 385hp.A Chicago SVT friend of mine owned one of those rarest Corvettes.He also owned an ‘04 Terminator,one of the rarest Mustangs.
That Chevy 327 and the Ford Boss 302 were iconic. The torque they made was just incredible.
Forgot the 1971 Ford Boss 351 C. All 4V canted valve Cleveland heads had 2.19” intake valves and 1.71” exhaust valves, and huge ports! Not only the biggest valves and ports of any small block, bigger than many big blocks. And the rare 1971 only Boss version of the 351 Cleveland had a solid lifter cam, push rod guide plates, 11.3 to one compression, a 780 Holly carb, hi-rise aluminum intake, header style exhaust manifolds, 4 bolt main block. Underrated at 330 HP. Saw a stock Boss 351 with the exception of headers put out around 380 HP on a dyno.
I can't believe it was not mentioned, but how many were made?
@@gregpremo6898 1806, for one year only in 1971, I believe just only in the Mustang.
Sounds like the spec for Ozzy falcon phase 111
You are so right. Even the Cleveland engine rated @ 300 HP, actually put out 351 HP & 391 ft lbs of torque. I had a 71 Torino GT with that engine, & it would give the Chevy Chevelle with the 360 & 375 HP engines a run for their money, & could take overhaul of the Chevy' s I raced ! These were all 396 cube engines.
@@gregpremo6898 There were 1600 Boss 351 cars made. The Boss 351 had an Autolite Spread bore,
carb because the Holley couldn't pass emission laws without an air pump., I know because i replaced my Intake manifold and Carb for the pre-production ford Manifold that would except a Holley. a real aluminum Ford Squair bore intake today is expensive, but blue thunder makes a re-pop for less than half.
The Buick aluminum block V8 whish was used pin the 1961-63 Skylarks; this engine was later sold to Land Rover.
Oldsmobile put turbochargers on a few of them and made some impressive power.
It was also used in Oldsmobille Cutlass
They made thousands of 290s!! They came in everything from ambassadors to classics!!
You missed the Studebaker small block V8 with the Paxton blower. My father had a Lark Rally with that and it was a tire smoker.
That was a B A leadsled !
Plus Studebaker was Canadian
Stude 289
@@shawntailor5485 , most were not Canadian. Only the late 1964 and all of the 1965-66 cars were made only in Hamilton after South Bend was shut down. And all of the 1965-66 cars had Chevy powertrains (194, 230, 283) from Oshawa after the South Bend engine plant was shut down.
The ford 289HO was also in the 1964 Mercury Comet. Put a 4 speed manual behind it, and it ripped!
In 64 it really was! My bud has a 68 falcon factory 289 4 speed.
@@congerthomas1812 The engine,if High Output, has HO on the intake manifold. If I remember correctly from 54 years ago is on drivers side just toward firewall from carb.
Dick Lux had one in his '64 Comet and raced it as an NHRA SS/M Super Stocker. That car also set NHRA SS/M National Records.
@@Clunk49 My Dad called it Frog! Because it could jump so fast. It was his car.
Ford made the compact fairlane in two model's that I remember 260 cubic inch and the 221 cubic inch
And I believe the 221 was only 2 years and also in the comet…
Video calls it a Fairline...
My first car was a 1963 Fairlane 4-door with a 221 cu. in. V-8 with a two speed auto transmission!
@@stevenkish4217 - The most tossed engine?
Yes , these are engines not motors ! Motors are electric.
Or mills 😊
Engines convert forms of energy into motion. In this case, engines are converting chemical energy from gasoline into kinetic energy. Motors do not convert stored energy. They merely use energy from an outside source. This external energy can come from steam, electricity, or other external sources.
Guess you guys are too young to remember "Motors" repair manuals, which came before Chiltons, and long before Haynes.
Just search: Motor Oil, and see if you want MOTOR OIL in your electric motion device.
Technically speaking, anything electric (mainly referring to electric motors) is really a motor, anything combustion is an engine. Gasoline engines, diesel engines, jet engines, gas turbine engines, rocket engines, steam engines, are really engines not motors, but we just refer to them as motors sometimes, kind of a nickname.
The AMC was and American Motors second generation V8. it was later stroked to 304 cubic inches along with an increased deck height and better designed heads. The Gen 2 engines were available in 290, 343 and 390 cubic inches while the Gen 3 raised deck engines were available in 304, 360 and 401 cubic inches. In 1969 AMC wanted to get into drag racing and they hired two teams to see how much power racers could get out of a 390. The answer was 529 horsepower. This was in custom built form. AMC also tried their hand in Trans Am racing. They enjoyed periods of dominance in both of these types of racing, but they didn’t do as well in NASCAR.
Giving USA motor volume in metric is a crime.
Yes it is. Saying lb. feet instead of foot lbs. too.
Well, Ford referred to the small block in Fox bodies as a 5 liter, right ? I agree, its sacrilege.
@@roadking99jokerst60 That was a gimmick Ford came out with when they made the King Cobra, they were trying to make a Fake Trans/AM, they turned the hood scoop around and put 5.0 decals on the scoop sides just like teh 6.6 on the trans/AM. They were trying to capture some of the Smokey fame.
Ford cleavland is missing
the 4V version...
The Boss 351
I ownd all the small blocks, a 265, put in a 33 ford, a 283, in a 57 Chevy, a 327, in a 65 impala SS 2 dr, at 300Hp, another 327, in a 68 Camaro, 250Hp, and loved them all!
Did I miss it? What about the 273 cu in engine in cars like the Dart?
My first car was a 66 Dart Gt 273 cu in 4 speed 4bbl 235 hp. My cousin owned it before me and used it for drag racing. He said he never lost to a Mustang with a 289.
Whoever made this video found some old car magazines in a thrift shop and decided to make a video. (The H.P. 273 1966 Dart is a neat little car with a great engine.)
Super Commando
I had a '65 Barrucuda with that engine. I ordered it while I was still in the US Army in Germany, and picked it up at the factory on my way home after I got out. It was
@@Wiseguy1408 is was ????
T.hat little engine was a real screamer and I beat quite a few 289 Fords in Falcons and Mustangs
Sounds to me like AI isn’t so smart.
Sorry, wrong about the AMC 290. Thousands were built with 2-BBL carbs and installed in all sorts of sedans and station wagons. The HO-290 was rare, but the run of the mill version featured the same forged lower end. Mostly carb, compression, cam, and ignition timing made the 290-HO different. Was a runner. Was also redesigned to become the 304 that went can-AM racing 😅
The 340 six pack made 290 hp not 275 and it was no available in the dart. Only T/A Challengers and AAR Cudas had the engine.
And that is the only way to get both.
Nearly every engine that came out of Detroit in 1970 was quite underrated for insurance purposes.NHRA caught on,and refactored a number of them.Chevy’s ‘67 327 QuadraJet was rated at factory 275hp.70 Dodge 340 Magnum with a 750cfm Thermoquad carb,more aggressive in every way,was also rated at 275hp.My estimate is that they were more like 320hp.I’m guessing the 340six-pack was 340-350hp.
@@babaoreally8220 1970 340 still had an AVS. Don't remember a TQ in 1970.
@@joequillun7790 We never paid attention to torque till it was in the 450-500ft/lbs in those days.
@@babaoreally8220 "TQ" meaning Thermo-Quad.
Don't use this video as a reference.
Ditto on that.
@@joequillun7790 Double ditto!
Do you mean " for entertainment purposes only"!
@@wrotenwasp Exactly. I wouldn't call any SBC..."rare." (Unless you're needing matching numbers)
The best small block ever made, in my opinion, the Chrysler 340 68-71.
Fords 289 and 302 V8's were the most bullet proof on the road. I had 5 of them. Fords Boss 302 1970, was rated at 290, but was actually closer to 350 H.P. The Boss 351 had 383 HP.
318 is hard to beat
chevy 327 and 350 and amc 232 was best engines i ever seen for durability
He left out the best & strongest small block engine. The Ford 351 Cleveland ! most powerful small block of it's time !
There are so many omissions and errors in this video that it is useless as a source of reliable information.
...as is true for the VAST MAJORITY of YT videos - no research, rehashing lame old urban legends instead of facts...
Fairline?
Blatant error !! It's Fairlane....the condensed name of Henry Ford's estate....which was Fair Lane.
Yeah I heard that too 🤣 one of many many errors in this video, mostly on their facts.
Mechanically helped camshaft. I guess anybody can make a video.
Ya, there's a little Leprechaun in there wearing a wetsuit banging on the pushrods with a hammer.
Is this crap video make by AI with a robot narrating it? It's just bizarre. small BLOCK motor. Reminds me of a group of guys back in the high school days hanging out in someone's garage bench racing. Out of 6 guys, maybe one or two half way knew what he was talking about.
That was the Parker Valve Camshaft Actuator, powered by compressed air allowing short bursts of Parkerized Air to burst out of the Parker Valve to help actuate the spinning of the Camshaft (s). Google it if you don't believe me. They were pure hell with small block drag racing engines. Can't believe you've never heard about Parker Valve Camshaft Blowers. They are ultra rare, though.
Ford 351 Cleveland should have been on this list
No, hundreds of thousands made, especially in Australia. Hell, even the DeTomaso Pantera used that mistake.
@@sarahstephens5966I remember when the Pantera came out, they had a bad design in their cooling system and they would overheat. The engines were fine in other vehicles. A lot were put in boats.
A Cleveland makes more horsepower per cubic inch than most motors. Superior oiling system and valves and (flow). Just ask Ernie and Bill Elliot.
@@richardlusk1715 - Stock 375 HP Chevy 327"...
At most only the 1971 Boss 351. The rest of Cleveland production was ubiquitous, except maybe the Cleveland 302 for Australia.
The Boss 351 should have been on that list. It was definitely rare and definitely strong
Beautiful
There is no such thing as an AMC small block or big block .it's bore and stroke that make the CID. All blocks same dimensions.
All AMCs are small block. AMC never mass produced any big block
@sarahstephens5966 not exactly that's like saying all Pontiac s are big blocks because of their dimensions. There are just Pancho blocks. They not unlike AMC are based on bore and stroke not dimensions.
Except the 1970 390. It was a tall deck block
@@tonysendrick6347 All AMC engines after 1969 were tall blocks even the 304 , 360 390 and 401.
390 was the only one built in both low and high block.
The video sucks but there seems to be some good information below in the comments
What the hell is a Ford Fairline?
AI voices don't speak English very well - probably a typo in the script.
Ahhhh.....BOSS 351
The 351 CJ ain’t no joke. Cleveland has superior heads and oiling system,they will turn 8250rpms on accident
@@richardlusk1715 right you are, have one in my pantera
What about the 350 LT1 solid lifter cam 370 HP small block that came in the 1970 Camaros? Also, you said the 64 1/2 Mistang was the only car with a 1/2 year model. Wasn't there a 70 1/2 split bumper Camaro?
No, '70 LT1 was 370 HP in Corvette, 360 in Camaro. All those "64.5" Mustangs are titled as 1965. The '70 Camaro was late arriving but titled as 1970.
The 370 HP number was in early sales literature but we put the 360 HP in all cars...
The split bumper is an RS option. They moved the turn signal lights from the lower valance, up and next to the headlights.
Loved that look.
69½ A12 440 6 Pack Dodge SuperBee, A12 69½ Plymouth Roadrunner 440 Six Bbl, both ½ year cars albeit Big Block engines
Theres only one company that calls their engines small blocks the rest had engine families.
Good video
An EV with a six pack LOL. Can't wait to see that.
Prolly 6 volt ...
1918 Chevrolet model D V8 4000 built. 288 cu. in. 4.7L overhead valves 36 HP at 2700 rpm. Featuring an aluminum water-cooled intake manifold. The starter is in the valley of the block, as well as the gear driven generator with the fan clutch coming off of it. I'd say that is the rarest V8
Chevy 283
They where tough motors that got great gas mileage
Also love the 327
Bore the 30 over and they could blow a 350 away ❤
"Pound/Feet" LOL (always amuses me)
Technically correct either way
Lb.-ft. because we don't use 500 feet long levers...
@@buzzwaldron6195 Don't know where you guys grew up, but if you were ever in a bench racing session, never has anyone contributed, "my Hemi makes well over 450 "pound feet" of torque. Gear head people just don't talk like that. Even Motors repair manuals from the past, specified all their eng. stats in "ft/lbs'. (Like, ya know?)
The Boss 351...
Boss 351 for sure
You forgot to mention the 292/312 fords. While production was short lived mine is still doing very good after 60 years of service.
And the AAR Cuda with the 340 6 pack
My Dad had a 1964 Oldsmobile f85 330ci 3 on the floor it would it get down. Awesome car.
@@jerryterry6895 Great engine too
How could the AMC 290 be one of the first engines AMC made, when AMC came out with a 250 CI V8 as early as 1956, after ten there was the 287, 327, 343 then the 290, 390, 360 and 401, The 290 came out in 1968 that is 12 years to late to be first
The military used a 254 Ford v8 to power support equipment it was on the block as the 272 & 292 V8s
This AI bullshit needs to be banned from UA-cam.
Olds had one block. No small block, no big block .
340 Dodge was the awesomest
WRONG, Oldsmobile had small blocks. And Big blocks. They are correct W31 350. W30,was 455. Oddly the Olds 403 was a small block . The 400s of the late 60s were big blocks
Depends how you wanna define it. The deck heights were lower, but the heads were interchangeable.
False. 455 and such used a taller deck height, therefore different casting, than the Olds 350 and such.
I had that olds 6.6 403 engine I put in a Pontiac Grand Prix. All I know it was a big heavy engine and poor rocker arm design @@josephrodwell6643
Correct, Olds all mid blocks, but different deck heights...
I had a L-79 in a Nova SS and it was a screamer.
Ford had a 260 V8 used by European auto manufacturers if i recall correctly Sunbeam was one.
Hi, you missed the 1973 Dodge 318 Ci .
A good 302 chevy will walk and talk.
Thank you, Zora Arkus Duntov. You did your thing .
The 365 HP 327 was the fast one, and turned at 7200 Rpms from the factory
Must be kid . 1937 Ford had a 60 HP small V8 . Go back & learn before posting bs
The 283 Fuelie V-8 in 1957 rated at 283 hp.
The 1957 283 was the first to have 1 hp for each cubic inch At 283 HP. The 1956 Crysler HEMI 354 was the first to have more than 1 hp per inch Rated at 355 HP.
I still own a 350/300 horse in my old pickup truck...factory.
And what happened to the 70 a half CAMARO
That was after the crash, because the brakes were not great,,,LOL
Where is the Big block 396? was used in the impala.
How many? Rare? Doubtful. Plus this video is about "rare" SMALL BLOCK engines which a 396 is not.
That engine in the thumnail is a 427 big block ford 'single cam'.
Not a small block.
The L76 327 that was in my dad's '64 vette was rated 365 h.p. & 350 lb ft., & came with a holley 4v from the factory.
1968 Pontiac Ram Air II 400 CID Firebirds. They are in pure stock racing only topped by a few big block Corvettes and few Chrysler 426 Hemi's. Very rare option in the one year only offering. In 1969 the Ram Air IV engine replaced it. You missed this one.
Most of our cars back them were crude machines with lots of raw power. I had a 68 Chevelle having a slight overbore that made it 408 ci, a General Kinetics camshaft with not outrageous lift and timing, ported small port 454 heads and intake with a cleaned up quadrajet carb and stock headers running into 2 1/2 inch pipes and Walker glass pack mufflers. Stock 4 speed box and 3.56 rear gears. Best ever time at Englishtown, NJ; it laid down an 11.68 at 118. I often wondered what it would have done had it been a 4 bolt main bearing block with higher compression heads, etc, etc. It was a beast like it was but it did not handle well and the brake system was inadequate at best.
That depends how you define "rare", and the same RAII was also used in the GTO. This is about the engine, not the application. Compare the RAII to the total production of Ferrari in 1968. Rare or uncommon?
@@jeffbranch8072 Ferrari vrs a domestic mass-produced engine. You must be joking. Not to mention it would takes 3X the money in a Farrari just to match a factory Ram air II fire bird.
You forgot the Chevy 283 cu in engine. 👍🇺🇲☮🍺
No, what's "rare" about a 283? There were everywhere.
They should have put the 273 dodge Chrysler it that mix also another solid lifter small block
Chrysler 273, and 318, then Pontiac's 267, just to remember 3 more.
What was "rare" about any of them?
@@jeffbranch8072 You meant, "what IS rare about any of them?" well just try finding a 273 cid Chrysler engine from the 1960's era today, for that matter the other 'great' V8 the 318 cid is rare too. How many of Pontiac's 267 V8's can you find at your local scrap yard today?
1965 corvette 4 speed 327. 365 horse
No, in '65 it was 375 HP. Was also offered in '62-'64, in various similar HP ratings.
365 HP carb'd, 375 HP fuel injection... same engine otherwise...
06:01 shows tach redlined at 6500 and claims engine only revs to 5600... LOL!
Its not a fairline its fairlane computer voice
Smokey Yunick made 3 dz 302 that had hemi heads
69 Camaro's Z 28 302 cu in V8
That one was rated at 290HP, from the factory, but tests say it was 350 hp!
Fords High Compression 289 was way more rare than the D code 289. Almost 2 million mustangs produced from 1964-1967. Little over 13,000 of those had the (HIPO) 289. That’s less than 1%.
The chevy 265cid and then 283cid in the 50s
What about the 67-68 Z-28s
302 DZ
Studebaker Avanti 289 , 240 hp and super charged 289 @ 300+ set 29 speed records in 1963 beat that ?
Ford s 427 2--4 s in a 1967 Fairlane
I tested a 75 corvette with a 454, BUILT, engine, and wouls scare any one.
427 cammer
Aka sohc
Which is not a small block as the title of this video is about, right? So kinda off topic.
327 fuel injected? 375 hp
Ahh, just leave now..... total waste.....
How about the L 79 327 bad ass motor
AMC 304 421 Ford Fe engines f engines 390 427 428 429 460
Half year moniker, the narrator says. I believe there was a 70 and a half Camaro.
340 killer engine ford 289 and 302 and 351
DZ 302 in 1967.. how many were made, 602 of 1967 Z/28's made
The fairline
331 chrysler hemi
Holden 253 Ford kicker...!!!
Holden is GM.
What about the overhead cam 289 ford had in 1964, oh wait it was just a prototype, nevermind. . .
FALSE!! The 340 six pack was rated at 290hp and was only available in 1970 in the 70 AAR Cuda and the 70 T/A Challenger. The 68-71 340 4bbl had 275hp.
Oh come on! 623 AMC 290 V8 ever made? No, no, no! The 290 was in MASS production and used in many AMC cars from the American all the way up to the Ambassador in 1966-1969. It came in 2 bbl and 4 bbl versions. While AMC products are more uncommon today there's nothing "rare" about a 290 at all. The closest thing to "rare" about a 290 **might** be how many are actually still left in Javelins and AMX's that haven't been swapped out for a 390. Research much?
Boss 351
Small blocks are just as much of a gas guzzler as a big block. I can speak from personal experience. It's all in the configuration and technology of the engine. Case in point 305 gets just as bad as a 454 the carbureted version anyways. Small blocks were designed for better weight transfer and higher RPM range. Pollution ain't got nothing to do with it. Especially when you got small blocks that are still in the 7 liter range.
My experience is if an engine has enough power, you don't have to keep your foot into it all the time you will get better fuel economy. Gutless engines hog up fuel Because you make them work more.
This video could have used a lot more research😢
And why the hell on those older engines that were sized as Cubic inches did you have to describe them in liters ?????Who the hell knew what the hell you were talking about ????? and so many small blocks left out !!! geeees !!
Lose the emotionless AI narrator. It has no love
Yeah or knowledge.
221 cu in Ford?
How dare you even mention that EV charger 😮😮😮
Buick 300 to 340ci before the 350
I love watching these videos, so much bs misinformation they're always good for a laugh
You forgot the Ford 240 V8 they put in the Sunbeam Tigers. Probably the smallest small block. I worked for Wickes Furniture as a service repairman and they ordered our 73 Ford Econoline van with a Boss 302 and 3 on the tree. It was fast enough.
302 but not Boss...
260 Windsor V8, 240 was the "Big Six" used in Galaxies and trucks. There was never anything "rare" about a 260.
You can't rival big block power a i
'75-'76 Chev 262 V8
never heard of it? and because it never exsisited,,,,
Yes there were 262 cu. in. V8 ‘s. They were in Chevy monza’s
400 cubic inch Chevy engine
I believe the LT5 Corvette engine was 385hp.A Chicago SVT friend of mine owned one of those rarest Corvettes.He also owned an ‘04 Terminator,one of the rarest Mustangs.
Had the 400 small block in my Impala, that baby screamed.
Hundreds of thousands of those produced, 1970 Monte thru 1980 G-van. Not rare.
FORD 352 406
Those are FE engines, the title of this video is about small blocks, right?
Chevy fi 327
OLDS 403
Chevrolet hemi 302
What are you on champ??? 😂