JC's automotive trivia question **answered**

[godmare]

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: godmare

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: godmare
Oldsmobile did, right? Wasn't the nail-head 350ci?

Yes, Olds is one. But the nailhead was 401ci 😉

Ahh, okay 😉 Didn't they make 2 different size nailheads, though? I have an article from Car Craft around somewhere.....

Wait...my bad. Nailheads are Buick engines. I think they came in 425ci also.

I dug out the article as my curiosity was piqued 😉, and they cam in a variety of sizes:
-Introduced in 1953 to replace the 'straight-eight', it was displaced at either 264 or 322 ci.
-In 1957 it was bumped to 364 ci, with a higher compression (9.5:1, with an optional 10:1, versus the 8.5:1 of the earlier 322).
-1959 brought the introduction of the 401 ci nailhead.
-and 1963 introduced the 425 ci.

You will notice, however, that none of them were in fact displaced 350 ci as I had guessed 😛
Info from the December 2001 issue of Car Craft.

edit:
Yeah, Buick engines.. wtf am I thinking tonight 😱😕😀

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Evadman
Ford

lol

You shoulda been a comedian 😀

I don't want to wreck your post 😛

Don't encourage the peeps who wanted Notfred to replace his 5.0L with 350 😕

Um, why wouldn't he want to do that?

Well.....Ford doesn't make 350s 😉

Oh, well.. lol.. 😛

You mean.. Chevy engines won't fit in Fords? 😛

Sure they will....with a bit of work. 😉

 

[HappyGamer2]

another odd ball was the first mopar 383, it was a the tall 413 block, a small bore 413, the later 383's had a bigger bore and shorter stroke, it was one year deal I think

 

[godmare]

Plymouth

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: godmare
Plymouth

We're just calling them 'Chrysler'.

C'mon, you guys have listed most car manufacturers.....there's still one 350 left! The Mopar 350 was the hard one.....

 

[HappyGamer2]

cadillac, but was it really a chevy or olds engine?

 

[Evadman]

mercury unless you are counting them under chevy

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: godmare
Plymouth

We're just calling them 'Chrysler'.

C'mon, you guys have listed most car manufacturers.....there's still one 350 left! The Mopar 350 was the hard one.....

Um, Er, Toyota? 😛

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: HappyGamer2
cadillac, but was it really a chevy or olds engine?

**ding ding ding** There ya go. No, I think it was based on the Cad 425.


Thanks for playing JC's Automotive Trivia.

😀

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: Evadman
mercury unless you are counting them under chevy

Yer killin me......!

 

[godmare]

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: HappyGamer2
cadillac, but was it really a chevy or olds engine?

**ding ding ding** There ya go. No, I think it was based on the Cad 425.


Thanks for playing JC's Automotive Trivia.

😀

Okay, we need another one!

 

[HappyGamer2]

yep but soon they will put chevy 350 in caddies
was there a caddy 350 desiel also? t

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Evadman
mercury unless you are counting them under chevy

Yer killin me......!

Ok, I am not having a good day. but I know mercury makes a 5.7L boat engine. now I have to find a link.

 

[HappyGamer2]

the mercury 350 is a chevy 350

 

[godmare]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: Evadman
mercury unless you are counting them under chevy

Yer killin me......!

Ok, I am not having a good day. but I know mercury makes a 5.7L boat engine. now I have to find a link.

here

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: HappyGamer2
yep but soon they will put chevy 350 in caddies
was there a caddy 350 desiel also? t

That was the Olds 350 that GM converted to diesel, IIRC.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: HappyGamer2
yep but soon they will put chevy 350 in caddies
was there a caddy 350 desiel also? t

That was the Olds 350 that GM converted to diesel, IIRC.

whcih is why no one in the US likes diesel engines. those engines sucked harder than my hoover.