The Small Block Chevy Engine is an Undeniable Piece of Absolute...

"Vicente Esteve" (vicente-esteve) 05/02/2014 at 19:28 • Filed to: None

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Brilliance. I mean, It can get 30mpg in the new Corvette and 400+ HP.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 19:34

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Hurr durr pushrods, single cam, old fashioned derpy derr.

lone_liberal > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 19:38

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Don't forget that because it isn't an OHC engine it's small enough to be shoved in to everything under the sun.

Vicente Esteve > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/02/2014 at 19:38

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Haha exactly

michael bleggi > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/02/2014 at 19:39

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well billy it ain tupid if it werks

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > lone_liberal 05/02/2014 at 19:40

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Put it in a MIATA!

Vicente Esteve > lone_liberal 05/02/2014 at 19:41

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Yup. Ive seen that before.

lone_liberal > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/02/2014 at 19:41

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Done, and done.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 19:41

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Less cams= less weight and less stuff to go wrong and can be swapped into more cars, therefore more burnouts. Everyone likes burnouts.

Vicente Esteve > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/02/2014 at 19:43

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Who Likes Burnouts?

*Loud as hell yelling and screaming multitude*

Guessed so

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > lone_liberal 05/02/2014 at 19:44

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ooooooh lord. BRB change of pants.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 19:45

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Vicente Esteve > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/02/2014 at 19:52

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coqui70 > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 20:08

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Excellent American engineering: reliable, modifiable, swappable, low cost per HP, can provide good fuel economy, can be worked on by mechanics anywhere, parts are widely available, long life due to it being under-stressed in normal use, pretty smooth due to inherent balance of the design and actually pretty light for the power output. Scoff all you want but there aren't many other production engines that have had such a long design life in their original block, crankcase and valve-train configuration.

YSI-what can brown do for you > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 20:14

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I used to be one of the people to complain about the pushrods, but then I grew up.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > lone_liberal 05/02/2014 at 20:23

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It's a great improvement to what is always the answer.

Vicente Esteve > coqui70 05/02/2014 at 20:26

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I told you, it is an Undeniable Piece of Absolute Brilliance

Vicente Esteve > YSI-what can brown do for you 05/02/2014 at 20:26

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They are nice engines. So reed

YSI-what can brown do for you > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 20:29

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No no no, I read! I completely agree with you, they are awesome. I am just pointing out the hoards of people that say they aren't good engine because they have pushrod design. If it is such an archaic design then explain how it came after OHC!! Muahahah

Vicente Esteve > YSI-what can brown do for you 05/02/2014 at 20:32

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Nonono! I was referring to red of the color red. Of the engine. I don't doubt for a second they are good engines!

YSI-what can brown do for you > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 20:34

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I see. So I was misunderstanding you.

ly2v8-Brian > YSI-what can brown do for you 05/02/2014 at 20:58

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ly2v8-Brian > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 21:02

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I have the "baby" of the bunch in my truck (4.8l 295 hp 305 lb.ft.). It makes all sorts of good noises when I drive.

Slow4o > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 21:03

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Super tall highway gear. They've had kick ass highway MPG for a while now.

Vicente Esteve > ly2v8-Brian 05/02/2014 at 21:18

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Gurggle gurrgle bang pow

Vicente Esteve > Slow4o 05/02/2014 at 21:19

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Yeah but it still is a nice unit

Slow4o > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 21:23

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O yea no complaints from me.

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/02/2014 at 21:39

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This is an unassailable chain of irrefutable logic. Kudos sir!

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > lone_liberal 05/02/2014 at 21:42

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To your point, a friend has one in his (experimental) airplane. One of these days I should do a writeup about that. It wasn't without its (significant) challenges but apparently is now working pretty well. Pretty versatile mill.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 21:48

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Just out of curiosity, has GM ever produced a 4 cylinder that's basically half of an LS series engine?

Vicente Esteve > BaconSandwich is tasty. 05/02/2014 at 21:50

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3.1 Litre? Uh the 3800 engine? Uh I don't know what to say

Saracen > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 22:24

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Of course it gets 30mpg highway, it spins at less than 2000 rpm at 75mph. Super tall overdrive gearing.

Having said that, still a damn sexy and power dense engine.

desertdog5051 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/02/2014 at 22:24

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9700 RPM. Hmm... Must be doing something right.

AMC/Renauledge > NotUnlessRoundIsFunny 05/02/2014 at 22:45

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Your username wouldn't happen to be a quote from a certain excellent, yet fairly obscure movie from the '80s, would it?

If so, all teh internetz to yu0!

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 22:53

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For some reason I thought the 3800 was a V6. I guess I don't know my engines very well.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 23:30

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The SBC is probably one of the best engine series ever. They're easy to maintain, cheap to make powerful, and damn they sound good with a nice set of pipes. I really need to get an audio recording of my dad's truck now that it's up and running. Sounds amazing.

Vicente Esteve > Saracen 05/02/2014 at 23:36

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Haha overdrive rules.

Vicente Esteve > BaconSandwich is tasty. 05/02/2014 at 23:41

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Neither do I.

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > AMC/Renauledge 05/02/2014 at 23:46

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Thank you! You're the first one to notice! :-)

Vicente Esteve > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 05/02/2014 at 23:47

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Hahah I started this just to scare people but this just turned out to be the SBC engine appreciation club!

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Vicente Esteve 05/02/2014 at 23:49

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It's hard to not appreciate one of the longest running engine series in existence.

Axial > BaconSandwich is tasty. 05/03/2014 at 01:44

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It is a V6.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Axial 05/03/2014 at 14:12

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That's what I thought.

I was just going to say that it's a shame that GM doesn't produce a small 3-cylinder like Ford's ecoboost, but apparently they do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Small_…

Axial > BaconSandwich is tasty. 05/03/2014 at 23:03

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Eh, three cylinders is nothing to write home about. Sure you make some improvements by reducing the number of moving parts, but the real benefits of the three cylinder come from its smaller displacement. I've seen examples of four cylinders with smaller displacement than certain three cylinders putting up better numbers performance-wise for negligible change in fuel economy.

Bluecold > Saracen 05/04/2014 at 10:47

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Also, in a car with a very small frontal area. Which, to be honest, is helped by the low profile of the engine.

Somethingwittyer likes noisy > Vicente Esteve 05/04/2014 at 16:57

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AMERICAS CAN'T GO AROUND CORNERS BRO.

Vicente Esteve > Somethingwittyer likes noisy 05/04/2014 at 20:34

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Hahah and Korean cars are SHIT

4age20vsilvertop > Vicente Esteve 05/05/2014 at 14:28

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Good luck achieving those 30mpg.

Vicente Esteve > 4age20vsilvertop 05/05/2014 at 15:09

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High gearing

4age20vsilvertop > Vicente Esteve 05/05/2014 at 17:26

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Are you really trying to tell me that you creep on the Freeway doing 70 all day long in 7th gear in a 450hp RWD V8 thoroughbred sports car? Never going to happen.

Vicente Esteve > 4age20vsilvertop 05/05/2014 at 18:02

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My grandmother would. By the way, she drives an Aston Martin Vanquish. Well, a Ford Five Hundred actually, BUT it has a V6