[Dragncar]

Originally Posted by Jack Gifford

Well... if I hadn't ignored them all these years, I guess I would have known that!.

Ignoring BBCs is a good thing ! BBFs are a better engine anyway.
Chevy hate is deep in this one.

[mgarblik]

Originally Posted by Dragncar

Ignoring BBCs is a good thing ! BBFs are a better engine anyway.
Chevy hate is deep in this one.

I think one point to the "hate", is Chevy had it all. From the top GM management, to the bloated engineering staff, to the hardware, they had an open checkbook. And yet they did so little with it all!. Splayed valve heads, giant bore spacing, forged internal parts, aluminum parts galore. But an all iron, in-line head, cast rod and crankshaft lowly Pontiac V-8 would give them all they could handle and more, designed and built by a skeleton staff, beat down by GM management at every turn. Heck, it took Pontiac engineers to make the "corporate" big block a real runner. The Big Chief heads made a Chevy BB a decent powerplant. A good example of my rant is a Pontiac 428 HO-390 HP. vs a 454 390 BBC. The Pontiac will run circles around that "Cherished BB", and it's cast iron everything, nothing exotic at all.

[mgarblik]

Originally Posted by Dragncar

Ignoring BBCs is a good thing ! BBFs are a better engine anyway.
Chevy hate is deep in this one.

I think one point to the "hate", is Chevy had it all. From the top GM management, to the bloated engineering staff, to the hardware, they had an open checkbook. And yet they did so little with it all!. Splayed valve heads, giant bore spacing, forged internal parts, aluminum parts galore. But an all iron, in-line head, cast rod and crankshaft lowly Pontiac V-8 would give them all they could handle and more, designed and built by a skeleton staff, beat down by GM management at every turn. Heck, it took Pontiac engineers to make the "corporate" big block a real runner. The Big Chief heads made a Chevy BB a decent powerplant.