The number 307 does not exactly inspire fits of joy among gearheads and BangShifters out there because frankly the 307ci Chevy small block and the 307ci Oldsmobile engine were not much more than ham and egger engines designed to fill a hole where a V8 was needed. They were not about making big horsepower, they were not about churning dyno rollers until they tore out of the floor, they were about getting a four door Impala or a pickup truck around in the case of the Chevy and about making enough torque to turn a horrid 2.73 gear ratio in the back of any number of GM cars during the horsepower dark ages of the 1980s. Let’s face it, 307ci engines are kind of a downer.
Yes, the 307 at least had a couple of HO versions that wound up in stuff like the Hurst/Olds and the G-body version of the 442 but 180 or 200hp isn’t exactly the stuff that tire smoking, quarter mile dreams are made of, right?
Now that we have seemingly sucked all the fun out of this, we went and spend tens of minutes scouring YouTube to find some fitting videos profiling each engine. We came up with some stuff that seems appropriate and ONE video at the end which is a total cheat job but it kind of saves the entire program.
Let’s just say that other than the last engine, there’s more humor than there is horsepower here. That will make abundantly more sense once you start watching below. Prepare yourself for lots of noise and not all that much action….except for the last video!
