[DMCForum] Re: Clash of the Titans... (Dave's Engine)

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Haven't seen all the pics (I'm dialup -- unemployed cost savings) but
from what I have seen the engine compartment seems victimized by beach
salt. Road salt usually isn't as pervasive (is heavy, so damage is
limited to wherever it can be slung). Beach salt is airborne and gets
into EVERYTHING.

If this car has been on a coast somewhere, do not be surprised if the
electrical system is pretty badly eaten up. If you ever need to open
the dash, replace as many wiring harness connectors and switches as
possible while you're in there.

And don't forget that instrumentation is electrically driven too.
Beach cars eventually lose their speedometers, gauges, dash clocks,
etc. Of course by then the body is pretty badly shot as well.

Regarding the 460: GM never did beat its torque (in factory trim).
Only the Cadillac 500 matched it @ 480 ft lbs. These are 1970 numbers
of course (high compression). I do believe the Cadillac engine is
slightly lighter (25-30 lbs maybe?).

I pick at the poor Chevy owners, but in all honesty GM's 350 is an
engine to be respected, for durability if nothing else. And parts
availability is absolutely bewildering. The original 351C is a fine
engine, but it never attained the reputation of the 350 (shifts in
public attitude doomed the 351M400 even before it got out of the
starting gate).

And I take my hat off to GM's 1977 redesign of the B Body platform.
They hit the ground running with a nearly fault free design (totally
unchanged for 15 years of production). Even my beloved Mark IV/V
series can't match that (8 years).

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
> Well at least they got the distributor up front where it should be.
 Now if
> you really want to FoMoCo it up, get that hunk of wasted iron out of
there
> and put in a real engine.  460 Lincoln cubic inches of stump pulling
power!
> 
> Bill
> 
> (No, not really.)
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
> Of Dave Stragand
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 7:50 AM
> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [DMCForum] Re: Clash of the Titans...
> 
> http://www.forwardlook.net/images/caddy/ 
> 
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> 
> Pardon our dust during our reconstruction!  =)
> 
>  
> 
> -Dave

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