Paging Bruce,Hottogo,Meanbuicks.........

[wordski]

Well,I did some checking and appaerently the lock up wont work after the switch over to a chevy motor and I really wanna keep the overdrive tranny,so......

What options am I left with?

 

[MeanBuicks]

Oh...

I just posted my 2¢ in your original thread.

 

[WE4]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLl They told you what?????


Man this is getting good. You should sell tickets to this.

 

[HOTTOGO]

It must be a Chevy thing, you know those 'ole Chevy's aren't good for anything.... LOL!

 

[Clay Thompson]

Worth of Chevys

HOTTOGO, reading your car inventory makes me think you should know of what you speak.

 

[HOTTOGO]

Re: Worth of Chevys

Originally posted by Clay Thompson
HOTTOGO, reading your car inventory makes me think you should know of what you speak.

And that's not all, also have a Chevy (GEO) Tracker wifes winter car and my work truck is a Chevy Silverado 3500 4X4, 454 w/headers cam, throttle body, ignition, hypertech chip, 4L80E w/B&M "Shift Plus" electronic shift kit and Trans Go vb shift kit. So I guess I have some what of bias when it come to Chevy, so call me a Chevy man if you will, what can I say?

 

[Clay Thompson]

Silverado

You ought to put a 500 Caddy in that Silverado--supposed to substaintally improve the gas mileage when towing and of course the Caddy makes more torque and horsepower--check out the 1970 motor specs here

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme3/drchop/docscads.html

 

[HOTTOGO]

actually thinking about the 502 crate motor, but mine only 63,000 and don't know if I want to replace it 'cuz it runs so good now?

http://www.paceparts.com/product.asp?3=755

 

[Clay Thompson]

Chevy man~~~~Caddy?

I've been a Chevy man since my first car--'53 Chevy>'65 Corvair, SBCs etc. I've built dozens of SBCs for myself and others and had the parts for a 6" rod 350 on hand when I got this Caddy bug--cheap horsepower and unbeliveable torque! Also, I have done so many SBCs a change was appealing and this is turning out to be as much fun as my first engine rebuild was in the mid-sixtys. I've disassembled many SBCs--always required a ridge reamer to remove the pistons, none of the Caddy motors even had a ridge!

I looked, the HT 502 certainly looks impressive but still less torque and horsepower than the 1970 Caddy. Several sources that I've read say that in towing applications the Caddy gets 7-8 mpg better than 454. I don't know how the 502 compares to the 454.

The castings on the Caddy are unbelievably light and consititent and the heads had heart-shaped, low-crossflow combustion chambers in 1968--years ahead of Chevy and I guess the source of the design.

Anyway, either one will get the job done.