100 millionth small block !

[antmnte]

Im not sure if this was posted before but here it is

http://www.amosauto.com/Articles/Gm/News/gm-builds-100-millionth-small-block-engine

[1988montecarloss 2]

Im not sure if this was posted before but here it is

http://www.amosauto.com/Articles/Gm/...l-block-engine

LS motor = not a small block in my book

[Dan Barlow]

The new ls small block really can not be counted in this. they just are not much more simular to a original small block chevy as they than a old v8 ford . Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to take out my L98 350 for a 6.0 ls . Shoot they're even counting 4.3 v6's !

[Barry Donovan]

interesting stuff.

the 262 was the smallest, I drove one around (not mine thankfully)..oddly, I do not recall it being in a chevrolet. ..one of those bop swaps, by factory. I think it was a cutlass?
the first vehicle I ever drove was a tow truck with a 283..heavy engine. I liked it.

I am still driving an odd boxer engine, numbered at 378,***. six digits..not even to an original million yet.

imagine more than one hundred times all the liquid 3 main subaru EA82 boxers. that is alot of v8 engines.

I also like they explained they did not invent the v8, and stuck to minimalist approach.

[Stich496]

LS motor = not a small block in my book

why the 400 is nothing like the 265... they are about as much the same as the ls is to the last gen I and II

[SpiderGearsMan]

The new ls small block really can not be counted in this. they just are not much more simular to a original small block chevy as they than a old v8 ford . Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to take out my L98 350 for a 6.0 ls . Shoot they're even counting 4.3 v6's !

google CADILLAC V8 ..the LS motor's daddy

[1988montecarloss 2]

why the 400 is nothing like the 265... they are about as much the same as the ls is to the last gen I and II

its based on the same casting, im pretty sure they share the same heads, intakes, cams too (yes i know you have to drill holes in them for 400's)

[Stich496]

its based on the same casting, im pretty sure they share the same heads, intakes, cams too (yes i know you have to drill holes in them for 400's)

block castings are not the same, heads are not the same.. crank nope rods nope, pistons, well they are round..

[min301]

The only technical similarity is the 4.40" bore centers.

[1988montecarloss 2]

block castings are not the same, heads are not the same.. crank nope rods nope, pistons, well they are round..

BASED on the same casting.....

[min301]

BASED on the same casting.....

Not even close...

[Stich496]

BASED on the same casting.....

ya sure and fords casting is based off it too.. they'd both ohv v8's

[1988montecarloss 2]

400



265



LSX




the bottom two look way more alike than the top two............

[Stich496]

again they are not any closer to bing the same than the ls is to any gen I the 400 cashing and water jackets are totally different from a 265, that has no oil filter pad,
it's night and day.

[ls7gto]

yeah, and you cant switch intakes or water pumps or distributors . next your gonna say the 350 and the 283 are different engines entirely.