Thread: build up on a 265 engine

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I picked up one last year at the crusher yard in a 2 1/2 ton 56 truck. It has a L56 code and is all STD. I got it for the crankshaft, incase I ever need it for my 283. Only prob with it has no side mounts. It could be built and put in my 55 car since the car still uses front mounts.
I have an old desktop dyno but playing with it, the smaller the cubic inch you go the HP seemed to be the same or slightly higher the smaller you went on cubes when using a Turbo.

The cam also has a oil grove around it.

Pat

The 265 had the most pathetic exhaust manifolds ever put on the SBC..

I knew about the lack of a built-in oil filter boss and the oil groove in the cam but my memory was when I was running parallel to a puke-salmon colored '55 hardtop in my mild .030 over (244 ci) 59AB '47 Ford and for some reason I just could not pass that thing! At that time Chevies were looked down on by the Ford flathead fans and rightly so because the six was underpowered and the bodies tended to be heavy; although I will say I still have admiration for a solid black '40 Chevie coupe which is a fine looking body (never mind that slow vacuum shift thing). That salmon '55 was just playing with me and could walk away from any 59AB Ford although maybe a '50 Merc would offer more competition with nearly equal displacement. Just some old memories of what was a big surprise then (Fall of 1955).

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder