Midget Engines For Sale: Sawed In Half 350ci Chevy Blocks, Heads, And A Tiny Blower – V4 Awesomeness


Midget Engines For Sale: Sawed In Half 350ci Chevy Blocks, Heads, And A Tiny Blower – V4 Awesomeness

Sometimes the simple solution is the right solution. In the case of these V4 midget engines, the proof is in the pudding. Using small block Chevy blocks and cylinder heads sawed in half, specially made Moldex chankshafts, and quartet of small block pistons and rods, these 175ci mills (apparently blown!) made plenty of power to shove the little race cars around dirt tracks all over the midwest. We know of a guy named Chet Wilson who has an engine building business in Kansas who was known for these types of engines and while we can’t be sure, these could be a couple of his old mills. When you think of what these things are and how they work it isn’t that crazy an idea, but it sure looks nuts, right?

We wonder what they would have sounded like, especially with the 3-71 blower working hard and blaring that exhaust note out of the pipes. We’d have to imagine that these things ran on alcohol without a cooling system although the one photo where the front motor plate is shown seems to indicate that the coolant passages were being used. Again, it seems insane, but those passages are in the same place that they were when the front four cylinders were there so why not use them? The heads are listed as “Pontiac” pieces in the ad which we think indicates that they’re old NASCAR heads that have been lopped in half for use on this engine. We tried in vain for a long time to find YouTube video of a V4 Chevy running and couldn’t. There are other V4 engines, but not these guys up there.

The “half a Hilborn” is sweet, the intake manifold under the little blower is cool, and the whole thing is just a curiosity that is begging to be put in a vintage Midget or even cooler, some sort of land speed racing vehicle. Hey, Bonneville or miler people, get on this weirdness now!

Thanks to Ron Ward for the tip!

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8 thoughts on “Midget Engines For Sale: Sawed In Half 350ci Chevy Blocks, Heads, And A Tiny Blower – V4 Awesomeness

  1. Beagle

    I barely remember somebody running on in a ‘liner story from HRM a few years ago? May have been a 2 cylinder hemi though. My mind plays tricks on me. Rodeck / Scat ? There are a couple of youtube vids on them, they sound like pissed off chainsaws.

  2. Jet Car Paul

    I had a V4 engine in my midget, it used a Scat crank but otherwise it was all home built. The car & engine won numerous features in Badger and also ran well at USAC shows. This one looks really well designed but must be for a different app being blowers are not allowed in midgets/sprints/etc.

    1. Jet Car Paul

      Worded that wrong, the engine was designed for a midget but the blower would not be allowed,,,,,,,,,,
      Wilson does a great V4 conversion……

  3. CTX-SLPR

    I know there is the Modus V4 that’s a semi Gen III/IV/V V8 design knock off. Didn’t Scat also make V4’s for midgets and the sandrail crowd?

    Most of the LSR weirdness I’ve seen reported is slice a V8 engine along the crank axis (either physically or by deleting the stuff on the other side of the V) like the Tempest I4 did.

  4. chuck

    that looks like a SCAT V4 and was a very popular engine in USAC Midgets and also found it’s way into the frame rails of SCORE off-road buggies

  5. brian spink

    The SCAT v-4 sounded awesome!! Do any of you remember a kid named Tony Stewart driving one for Rollie Helming in the early 90’s? whatever happened to that kid??

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