People are claiming that the Chevy 350 Engine is obsolete and not worth rebuilding in 2023. I’m here to tell you why that is wrong!
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People are claiming that the Chevy 350 Engine is obsolete and not worth rebuilding in 2023. I’m here to tell you why that is wrong!
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If eBay hadn’t stepped in and helped you out with the scammer you’d be out thousands, in my personal opinion you’d be safer order a blueprint motor already built, broke in and ready to plug and play
Congrats you're on your way, your next build should be a big block chevy, it will fit in your camaro. Get a solid roller cam and get used to using feeler gauges to adjust valves, now we're talking head turner.
Yes absolutely! Small block Chevy performance parts are abundant and cheap!!
the 350 has been around since 1967, they were a high performance option for the 1967 Camaro, they were rated at 300hp and 380lb-ft torque
The 350 Chevy is still very much relevant
Ls is the way to go
I am more interested in the sources saying a 350 is no longer viable. What do they recommend? a LS?
Glad to see this video and you getting her back! Those LS engines yeah they're nice but it's a lot of work and a lot of money to get one running in a old car. And you're right they don't cost nothing to build compared to today's engines. Just wondering since you didn't put your push rods in yet have you degreed your cam?
Sure if you wanna spend 5k and still be slow
bro, LS is damn near the same difficulty to rebuild as a sbc and is $300 from most junkyards. you just sound uneducated on LS motors, the biggest difference is factory toilet bowl fuel dumping vs factory EFI.
both work just fine, its mostly preference for your average hot rodder. for the guy looking for ~400 crank, the LS is the current way to go.
any small block guys not playing with vortec 350s for similar power goals is just wasting money imo
Kyle. My good friend. They say the Honda B series is obsolete as well. There was only one thing I could do. I spent $11,000 dollars building a obsolete B series anyway. Pay no attention to the haters. The Small Block chevy engines are a legend . If I were to build a v8 tomorrow the small block v8 would be my first choice……still !!!
There is no doubt what carburetor I would use on your engine build. Holly 650cfm 4 barrel double pumper with mechanical secondaries and choke!
You have great charisma.
But you DO NOT get to claim you rebuilt an engine
If it never ran.
Sry
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Like you tho!
I didn’t make the rules
The Skinny Block needs $3000-4500 worth of re-engineering to be reliable at 275-300HP and 325 ft/lbs of torque for more than 50K miles. GM designed it to be a 50K mile 150-170 HP 5000 RPM smogger engine, and it rarely lasted that long. The older 327 HO or High Performance "Baby Block" has MUCH thicker walls and webs and a much more robust crankshaft valley, but a raw casting costs about 4 to 8 times what a 350 does. The forged crank is ten times what the skinny block's cast crank costs. It will produce 375 HP at 12,000 RPM for 100K miles and come back for more. This engine was the basis for the 345 CID Formula One Chebby 425 HP(???) 17,000 RPM engine of GM's one-year Le Mans fling. The Buick used a turbo 322 CID that wasn't developed in 1967-69-specifically the fuel injection management system being mostly mechanical (Bendix) wasn't up to the demands of a turbo engine.
if you dont, they will disappear,
nothing like the sound of a small block spinning 8500 rpm and its easily done…No worries about oil pump cavitation either 😉
Good video, it absolutely is…. On my channel I'm building a 305 in 2023. Just depends what you want. For a driver, 305s are fine…good mileage, cheap or literally free and with mild parts make a nice smooth 300-320ftlb of torque road burner. 350s are great, a SBC will do anything the LS will do now with all the great heads, roller solid and hydraulic valvetrains, obtainable efi etc ….
Is he not building this Camaro for his mother ? I think the 350 will be just fine. Dam . The 350 was a great choice bolt right in cheaper to replace parts and will run for 100,000 miles easy . keep on keeping on Mr garage gooblin
6:50 they still do even in the most modern boats
If you can tear apart a 305 307 350 so on you can tear apart a ls man it’s the same thing both a small block Chevy
The ls engine is just a modern sbc they are super simple tbh. Yes they are a little bit more money to build, but they will have more power than a sbc if you wanna compare apples to oranges . I love the sbc platform but you can buy a 400 ls from a junkyard and convert it to carb and make it run with no issue