Originally Posted by
TD1886
Geesh Lloyd, you're bringing back memories. My dad did have a garage, so I worked on my Chevy out in front of the house. One day I was under that 61 Biscayne working on it and my dad was standing on the porch shaking his head. I said "What?" He said girls and four barrel carburaters. You tell me how good Chevy's are and you're working on it all the time. I said "Dad, I'm working on it not because it's broke, but to make it go faster. You forgot guns. Girls, cars, and guns." He laughed. My car years began in the 60's. I don't remember the two cars you talked about being around in my day, or at least my area. For Fords it was the 289's, 390's, 406's and some of the other big blocks. For Chevies it was 283's, 327's, 350's, and 396's, and 427's. The 454's didn't arrive yet. Pontiacs were 287's, 316's, 346's, 389's, and 400's.
When I put that 300 hp 327 in my 61 Chevy Biscayne my best friend wanted to see how high rpm I could wind the engine up to. I had a brand new RAC tach in it, remember those?. I was winding second gear up and got to 7200 rpms and we both agreed I better stop there. Then we weren't so sure it had a hydraudic came in it. Well when I finally spun a rod bearing years later (probably from the days I wound it up to high, didn't know that crap as a teen bopper) sure enough it was the stardard 300 hp hydraudic cam. Why it wound that high and still wanting to go I don't know.