[Tom Vaught]

Give the guy a break, obvious newby.
Tom V.

[mgarblik]

Originally Posted by 60sstuff

“No one will know the difference”. Some of the post made here are hilarious ��.

389 has 2 freeze plugs on each side of the block.
400 has 3 freeze plugs on each side.

All you have to do is look.

I have seen several instances of 400's and other late engines having the cup area of the center core plug filled in with JB weld or similar and then textured and painted. The actual placement of the 2 plugs vs the 3 plugs blocks is different but it takes a "real" Pontiac person to detect this. Hell, I have seen many, many SBC engines painted Pontiac blue and stuffed in Pontiac bodies and very few , if anyone notices the difference at local type car shows. LS engines with goofy grafted on valve covers and the like in old GTO's and Firebirds presented as stock go mostly unnoticed. Lets face it, there are probably less than 10,000 people still living that could tell the difference between a 389 and a 400 installed in a car. Reality sucks. 95% of the College level students in my classes couldn't tell you the difference between a Pontiac and a Plymouth and which one was part of GM at one time in the ancient past. But they could tell you about all the running changes in the latest Kia Turbo engine.

[242177P]

They built around 180 Ram Air GTOs in 66. Compare that to the 67 (751) or the 69 TransAm (697). This car deserves better than some 400 wearing early valvecovers.

Originally Posted by Tom Vaught

Give the guy a break, obvious newby.
Tom V.

TV says cut someone saying something dumb some slack, and then proceeds to roast the guy (Join Date: Aug 2007) by calling him an obvious newby.

[Cammer-6]

Originally Posted by Tom Vaught

Give the guy a break, obvious newby.
Tom V.

yea after all they are both "big blocks" ;^)

[Tom Vaught]

I stand by what I posted. Newby means you did not own the car in 1964 or 1966.
Say you joined PY in 2007. Bought it/ post about it in 2007, 2007 IS NOT 1966.
1976 (10 years), 1986 (20 years) 1996 ( 30 years), 2006 (40 years).

PY says I joined in 2001. ( I bought my 64 GTO in April 1965).

So my NEWBY comment applies, despite what the member (he joined in 2004) who posted in Post #23 thinks.

Tom V.

[242177P]

Originally Posted by Tom Vaught

... post about it in 2007 ...

Nobody was posting about their GTOs, on the internet, back in 1965. And drop the I-have-seniority nonsense, you're going to chase the OP (Join Date: Dec 2022) off of the forum with that. He's looking for a needle in a haystack, and I for one hope (fingers crossed) he eventually finds it.

[Tom Vaught]

Good for you.

Tom V.