BBC

[Sandy Ganz]

I have an old Aluminum BBC in my cobra project, it looks like a varient
from the Chevy molds, not a vintage (early 80's), but I had heard that
someone was doing them after chevy gave up on the racing but not really
sure on the history. It's not a donovan, they have a REALLY nice block, now
up to 700Ci in a super high deck block (raised cam too). If anyone know of
how to tell who made this block let me know! It has no marks or numbers as
it was completely polished before I scavanged it. Also the 430 in the CanAm
cars was a really hot motor, it was the sleevless motor with a 348
crankshaft, big bores, dinky stroke as the bores were huge. The 348 crank
was shorter stroke then the nice 396/427. Yes you can fit a 348 or a 409
crank in a BBC just need  bearing spacers and I think that was it. Just for
nostalga, I got the ZL-1 cam from Skogins-Dicky just to get a feel for what
was once a very nice package ;-)

Sandy Wasting bandwith while on the road...

At 05:52 PM 10/7/98 -0700, you wrote:
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>On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 Don.F.Broadus at ucm.com wrote:
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>> I think you are referring to the all aluminum ZL1 and that was a 427.
>> Reynolds aluminum cast the blocks and winters foundry cast the heads. The
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>IIRC, Reynolds also did the 430 block. I believe it was the most widely
>used block in CanAm.
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