Thread: which 6? 292,300 or 225

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i meant the 250 chevy

Chevy 37, you're right, the slant has four mains. Drove lots of them, just never had to tear one down! They're like the battery bunny!

All the sixes I ever messed with were a couple of 235s, and I always liked them; they have a certain "feel" to them, both in their response and their sound.
The company I worked for used Dodges and Plymouths for fleet utility cars, and a few of the smaller pickups; they all had the slant six in them, and when maintained right, they were very durable, if a bit anemic in their stock form, but they got used by every Joe and Jane who needed a set of wheels, and worked well. Now, the big Ford, that is an engine. I worked a job with a guy who built Fords exclusively, mostly off road and 4x pickups. He had a beauiful mid to late seventies 4x that had one of the 42? engines, and it was a runner. He changed that thing out for a 300 he'd built, and it was even better performing out in the country we worked in. It had a four barrel on a Clifford manifold, a cam that was definitely not stock, but was not real lopey, either, and a set of headers. The exhaust was the same he'd used on the 42? from ahead of the mufflers, back, a 2 - 3/4 inch system which was big for those days; it sounded very good, a really throaty rumble and growl, rather than the customary buzz and rap of a smaller piped six.