Thread: chev 302's back from the dead

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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Now if chebbie had kept theirs, and designed a car around the engine.............

Chevy figured why a puny (Slight or inferior in power, size or importance: weak ) 302 little motor to be their main sb motor!

I pulled the 289 out of my Fairlane, and tried to use it as a boat anchor, I thru it in..............it floated away! it wasn't even good for that!

Pat

Originally Posted by gassersrule_196

i was refering to the fact that everytime someone dicuss's 302 there automatically a big piece of shit when in fact there not,

Thank you i think thier thinking of the chev 307 as a peace of shit

Originally Posted by HemiTCoupe

Chevy figured why a puny (Slight or inferior in power, size or importance: weak ) 302 little motor to be their main sb motor!

I pulled the 289 out of my Fairlane, and tried to use it as a boat anchor, I thru it in..............it floated away! it wasn't even good for that!

Pat

ya know my uncle had 2 ford galxy's 66 had a 390 w/4spd and the other was a 65 289 w/4spd both 2bbl carbs and that 289 walked all over that 390 but not only that we used to street race and my buddy has a 65 mercury comet with a 289 w/c4 and it beat alot of rods and bigblocks

I got a 1969 hotrod magazine around somewhere they got 450hp out of one in 69 what do you think you could pull out of it today?????? now think they didn't have roller motors back in 69 they ran solid cam an lifters plus today there are lots of after market options out there where you could build up a 289 to the hilt. plus them short stroke motors are good with a low gear ratio like 4:56+ and you can wind the piss out of them so they scream down the track

ya know with these guys drag racing their 5.0 fox mustangs i wonder what kind of RPM's they pull in a run? a ford 302 and a chev 302 are pretty much the same as far as bore and stroke. and then theere is the ford 289 and the chev 283.

Ooooh! I hit a nerve!

When I talk about a motor, unless I say different, it's factory stock motor's!

We build our own turbo's, and they are use around the world in racing and street cars, anyone can take any motor, and make it put out more horse power than yours, then If you do the same to yours.
We have a 3.0 that dyno'd at 700+hp, we also have a I6 that puts out 1300hp. You can make any motor put out more hp, and then compare it to one thats stock or near stock. That just don't make sense.
I have and do own Chevy's, Fords, Mopars, VWs, BMW, I have owned over 100 vehicles and drove them all! The doggiest car of them all is my '87 Mustang with a 302, and it runs mint, I would not pull up next to anything to run it!!! My sisters '68 Mustang with a 289 is quicker. It won't even come close to my flat 4 ACVW!
I did have a Ford 302 back in the 70's that was quick, but nothing close to my '65 Chevelle with a 283 with over 250,000 miles, both were 2bl's. I had a '67 RS/SS 350 Camaro, that would stomp 396's and a lot of sb's, Ford & Chevy. But I'm talking stock!!!
Oh, the 289 that didn't float, it had rods out the pan.

Pat

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

I don't use Bondo, I use Evercoat products... What's your preference????

Btw, you don't have to call me Mr. 250 mph unless I should in fact achieve that goal. As of now it's still just a goal I'm working towards.... Not dreaming or scheming and looking up part numbers, but an actual project in progress.....

A straight car that needs none

Originally Posted by DennyW

((Oh, the 289 that didn't float, it had rods out the pan.))

In your dreams, maybe....

My 68, 7200 red line. Pull daylight under the front wheels. 2 barrel carb.

So let me get this right! Because yours didn't pop, none of the others will! I've got news for ya! You're wrong, cause mine popped! it was in a '67 Fairlane GT with 456 gears.

Pat

Originally Posted by HemiTCoupe

So let me get this right! Because yours didn't pop, none of the others will! I've got news for ya! You're wrong, cause mine popped! it was in a '67 Fairlane GT with 456 gears.

Pat

Hemi T May-be you can help me to get my 1965 289 Mustang to run like that ! COOL

Both early SBs had small rod bolts !

Originally Posted by DennyW

My 68, 7200 red line. Pull daylight under the front wheels. 2 barrel carb.

maybe when you went up and over an embakement

Originally Posted by tango

Both early SBs had small rod bolts !

aint broke one yet

WAY TO MUCH BS!!!!
I just love all this bench-racing!!

i have nothing to gain or hide, i tell you like it is. unlike some people................................................................

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