Awe crap, he’s doing it. Richard Holdener is comparing Pontiac vs Chevrolet to determine which factory “small-block” is best. Is bigger better? Are they apples to oranges? Will this piss of Chevrolet fans and make Pontiac guys too confident? Oh man this could be a real battle royal!
In this video, Richard is going to test both classic muscle car combos to see how they stack up against each other. He’s done plenty of classic muscle car combos, to see what kind of power they really make in comparison to what the factory claimed, but whenever you pit a couple of them against each other people get really fired up. Check it out below.
Video Description:
HOW MUCH POWER DID A PONTIAC RAM AIR 400 MAKE? HOW MUCH POWER DID THE 1970 LT-1 350 REALLY MAKE? IS A RAM AIR 400 PONTIAC MORE POWERFUL THAN A CHEVY 350? IS THERE A REPLACEMENT FOR DISPLACEMENT? HOW MUCH EXTRA HORSEPOWER AND TORQUE DOES INCREASED DISPLACEMENT ADD? WOULD A RAM AIR FIREBIRD OR GTO BEAT AN LT-1 CAMARO OR CORVETTE? CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO WHERE I COMPARED A RAM AIR 400 PONTIAC TO A 1970- LT-1 350. ALSO COMPARED A DZ302 VS THE LT-1 350. CHECK OUT THE DIFFERENCE IN TORQUE OFFERED BY ADDITIONAL DISPLACEMENT. BIGGER REALLY IS BETTER!
That Pontiac is a RamAir3 head. RA2 or RA4 would have dyno’d quite a bit better in the upper RPM. RA3 head is so restrictive that the bigger RA4 cam would not have helped much, I think. Also Quadrajets dont dyno well without an air filter housing says Cliff Rugles the Qjet guy…there’s a good test for you to try Richard. Interesting test but who knows how really stock “wink-wink” any of these really are.
Richard blatantly dislikes Pontiacs.He tests a d port engine and says he wishes he knew if it was a ram air iii or a ram air iv.Brulé could eyeball that shit.