Whattza Holden?.

[Matthew Harding]

At 05:36  7/05/98 +1000, you wrote:
>>From what I'm told, the Holden V8 is a completely Australian designed engine
>(but I could have been told a heap of crap...). As for the V6, I believe it
>is a Buick. However, with the "Ecotec" V6, it is basically loosely designed
>on the previous Buick re-hash, and not, in reality the same engine, although
>the cubic displacement is still nominally 3.8L.

actually the Holden 308 V8 has some very close similarities to the small
block chev...  the 350 Chev crankshaft is used in the 308 to stroke it to
around 383 ci.

do you think a Chev crank would bolt into an aussie designed engine ?  hmmm