Glenn Palmer’s Restored & Improved 1964 Sting Ray Convertible
Firemen Car-Guys bring a tired old Corvette back to life! Dateline: 9.15.22 – This story was first published in the November 2021 issue of Vette...
Tagged: small-block chevy
Chevy’s Secret Duntov Engines Hot Rod Mag E-Book
There was Zora on the cover of Hot Rod, in a corporate gray suit, white shirt, a narrow black tie, and all smiles; but then again, Zora never knew a camera he didn’t like. And why wouldn’t he have been a happy guy, sitting there with four exotic experimental Chevrolet engines; single-overhead cam heads, and double-overhead cam heads with fuel injection systems of different configurations.
1963 Fuelie Corvette vs 1967 L71 427/435 Corvette – Videos
Today, some 1963 split-window coupes command very high prices. Only 199 Z06 Corvettes were built in 1963, making restored versions extremely valuable. And only 20 1967 L88 Corvettes were built, putting them close to the top of the “most expensive classic Corvettes” list.
1996 LT4 Small-Block Chevy – The Finished Classic SBC?
When the Cadillac-derived Small-block Chevy engine first arrived in 1955, I’m certain that Ed Cole and his team of Chevrolet engineers never imagined that their efforts would have such a profound and long lasting impact on the automobile industry. The little 265-cubic-inch engine had just 162-horsepower. By 1970 the 350-cubic-inch LT-1 engine was packing 370 gross horsepower. Beginning in 1973 Gm started rating their engines in “net” figures making it look as if the legs had been cut out from under all of their motors. While it’s true that there were emissions restrictions and reduced compression, the “net” power ratings were in real-world terms, closer to reality.
From ‘73 to ‘96 it was a long slow slog, but the last SBC to use the basic original design was the 330-horsepower LT4. So, what would be the ”gross” horsepower rating of a ‘96 LT4? That would be anyone’s guess, but somewhere close to or over 400-horsepower would be a good guess.
Corvette Timeline Tales: Happy 102nd Birthday, Ed Cole
While Cole was one of the top engineers of his day, he did not start out wanting to be in the car business. When he first started attending Grand Rapids Community College as a lad, he wanted to become a lawyer! But a part-time job in an auto parts supply store hooked him into cars. He enrolled in General Motors Institute and got his engineering degree and a job at GM. Cole and Harry Barr co-headed a team to design and develop the revolutionary 1949 Cadillac V8 engine. It was the Cadillac engine project that set Cole up to be the lead man on the Chevrolet small-block engine project. Just stop and reflect on what an enormous contribution to Chevrolets and racing the all-time classic Small-Block Chevy engine is.
The POWER of the Corvette
slide show of Corvette engines from the valiant Blue Flame-Six to the mighty 638-horsepower, supercharged LS9. The LS9, rated at 638-horsepower, is the most powerful production engine ever produced in Detroit.
Stunning Die-Cast Corvette Engine Models
We offer the entire lineup of die-cast engines at our www.Precision-Illustration.com site, HERE. But for this post, we thought we’d dish up two photo galleries featuring the famous L84 ‘63-’65 Fuel Injected 327, the small-block “Fuelie” and the 427/435m aluminum-head L89 big-block with those awesome 2, 2-bbl carbs.
