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Re: 402 bbc question
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Originally Posted by monte0185
Tidbit of historical info. Actually The 402's were a GM fluke. What happened was they had a batch of 396's that were bored at the wrong angle. So instead of chunking them in the scrap they rebored them correctly but in correcting the mistake they upped the CI's to 402. Thus the reason there are only a couple of years of 402 bb's. Just an interesting bit of history for yall.
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I have heard several theories on the 402. This is a new one for me. If you don't mind me asking, where did you get this information?
Another explanation that I heard is that the 396 blocks somehow got some rust in them so GM bored them in order to still use them.
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Last edited by breeh; 03-23-2009 at 11:22 AM.
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