In my automotive machinist days, a fellow machinist implemented the
multi-part arcticle in HOT ROD by Smokey Yunick about how to build up,
step-by-step the same engines he did for the original IROC cars.
We took a 350, stroked by 1/8", which gets you close to the 3xx CID.
Edelbrock even made a special manifold for these cars..they had no
exhaust crossover...ran rich as hell. My friend put this engine into
a '55 Studebaker which ran in the low 12's and got about 15 MPG avg.
Not bad for a car that smoked the tires on the Interstate at 65 by
just punching the throttle; got us to San Diego in 6 hours from the
Bay Area and used to out-run the CHP with their 455 Olds on highway
280. (he's the same friend who put a 215 Aluminum Buick engine into
his wife's 510 Datsun wagon).
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Subject: RE: More on the Grand Sport
Author: David Horton <70544.1507@compuserve.com> at ~INTERNET
Date: 7/3/96 12:39 AM
Sutherland writes:
> (2) The origional engine was meant to be 400ci, but had its stroke
> reduced to lower it to 377ci to aid combustion (I think).
>
I seem to remember reading that the 377ci resulted from stroking the 327. This
makes sense,
as (IMHO) a stroked small block would weigh a LOT less than a destroked big
block (although I may be wrong, as I'm not a Chevy expert).
David
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