<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Steve Barcak:
Also, there are ways that prove that a cheb swap is more costly costly than may would think. If your car is an automatic, that cheby 400thm will cost you way more than the Pontiac one will. And you will have to buy brackets, motor mounts, stater motor, flexplate, exhaust and on and on. Chevs are goofy and hard to work on too. If you have worked on both Pontiacs and chevs you know this. Let's list some of the things that show how a chev is engineered poorly and more difficult to service or hot rod than a Pontiac. How about that goofy fuel pump shaft gismo. The dumb motor mounts were the nut isn't welded into the mount like the Pontiac is. How about the way most of 'em have the A/c mounted on the left side of the car so the hoses have to drap across the engine? What about when you want to pull the intake or even the heads? On a chev, you have to pull the dist (and it is even longer on the chev than the Pontiac so it is harder to install). How about having to use a puller for the balancer? And all the diferent one too? A few others, the timing cover has to have the pan down to r and r it, the intake surface angle is not 90 degrees to the deck making milling and aligning more difficult. There are so many reasons NOT to run a chev even in a chev. If the chev guys were smart (and some are) you put a Pontiac in the chev. Another thing about using a crate motor is that it shows you have no ability to build an engine yourself. You are advertising your inability. "I just took it out of a box and dropped it in". Wow, that's hot rodding NOT. Even if you can't build your own engine, still get with someone who can. The Pontiac is the best engine ever designed and has yet to reach its development peak, the interchange is without parallel. Keep it real. Keep it Pontiac. Steve
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The cost of the trans is less due to availability.If your gonna go with real HP a stock starter will not work any how makes that a NON ISSUE. SFI flexplate is less than half of a pontiac.Gotta buy headers anyhow again a non issue. stock mounts only need to be relocated to the other set of holes in the crossmember.Besides if your gonna go fast your gonna use solid mounts so another non issue.Fuel pump pushrod is not a problem. Have to use electric pump to go fast. AC hoses now thats a joke in a race car-dream up a real excuse. Pulling the intake is no big deal. Chevy heads have enough bolts to seal the heads. No need to remove them.
As far as engineering how bout them Cast cranks!HA-HA.Looks like someone dropped the ball on that one. What bout flow numbers- no comparison.
It also seems that a lot of the fast pontiac engines out there are using Big Block Chevy internals (Rods,Pistons,and so on).Just my .02
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