Thread: What's up with this?????

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I caught a bit of the practice from Homestead today in the NASCAR Craftsman truck series.... I see the new chebbie race engine has the distributor in the front!!!! Sure took 'em long enough to figure out that that's where the thing should be!!!!!

Mabee its a cadillac ?

Nope, said chebbie on the valve cover and it was in a chebbie truck!!!!! (They probably wish it was a Caddilac!!!!)

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

(They probably wish it was a Caddilac!!!!)

Only if they owned a FORD

Those idiots put the engine in BASS ACKWARDS!!

tom

Originally Posted by shop tom

Those idiots put the engine in BASS ACKWARDS!!

tom

I guess that's possible, after all it WAS a bunch of chebbie guys........

Sounds like a Rodney King syndrome....

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

I guess that's possible, after all it WAS a bunch of chebbie guys........

Well, you know how we are. We aren't picky as long as it works.


tom

I read somewhere the same guy who designed the 500 caddy also designed the 460 style ford block

Maybe it's a Buick engine. My Buick V6 engine with a front dist. came out of a 1980 Chev Monza.

No its a chevy motor ,they now have the ford ho firing order,also have non siamesed exaust ports ,like ford, and the distributor in the front.
Maybe they wised up,my last few fords have all went over 200,000 miles with minimal repair and maximum abuse.

This is the Chevy LSx motor that normally has EFI and 8 coils with computer controlled ignition. To comply with rules they have to run a distributor and carb, so they have created an adaptation off the front of the motor. I was in Bill McAnally Racing Nascar shop last month and they had a bunch of of them in there. They are great motors, 6 bolt mains, great flowing heads, all aluminum.

Pat

The ones I saw were vertical shaft. That looks like it might be a Pro Stock motor.

Pat

i had read somewhere once that toyoto`s racing engine was essentually a chevy as they don`t build a non overhead valve V8 ,, it even has the chevy bellhousing bolt pattern

Summers Bros. makes a front drive adaptor for SBC and BBC motors. I also saw a front distributor on Horsepower TV a few weeks ago. It did not look like this one.