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1968GMC · 11-07-2002, 09:57 PM

I mitgh be able to get my hans on a C50 truck with a 427 CID for $500, maybe less. Is that a good engine choice for a 1/2 ton? Will it bolt to a th350? Can you buy aftermarket parts like headers,intake ,carb, cam that sort of stuff?

mikep · 11-07-2002, 10:03 PM

The 427 in that truck is an industrial/heavy truck engine. It is about the same as a big block chevy except for a taller deck, different rods and pistons which can be swapped to regular big block pistons with longer aftermarket rods. The distributor is different as s the intake. All the parts are avaialable but they are more expensive. Thick walls in the cylinders and they make for good race motors.

*Fast68Chevy* · 11-07-2002, 10:48 PM

and its a GM casting so it has same bellhousing pattern as all 55-up engines did

adamls · 11-07-2002, 11:37 PM

Mucho torque!!! You would have to rebuild if you want top end though. $$$. Should bolt right in, I would do it.

1968GMC · 11-07-2002, 11:47 PM

I assume the TH350 bolts to it and/but will it whitstand the extra tork?

adamls · 11-07-2002, 11:53 PM

Only one way to find out, if it soesnt then you can have it rebuilt to withstand. One way or another it will have to be rebuilt, right?

Hooter · 11-08-2002, 03:37 AM

The bigger the better!. I wouldnt trust a turbo 350 behind it though

11-07-2002, 09:57 PM	#1
1968GMC love my truck Join Date: May 2001 Location: aylmer QC Posts: 648	427 cid ? I mitgh be able to get my hans on a C50 truck with a 427 CID for $500, maybe less. Is that a good engine choice for a 1/2 ton? Will it bolt to a th350? Can you buy aftermarket parts like headers,intake ,carb, cam that sort of stuff?

11-07-2002, 10:03 PM	#2
mikep Used to have a truck Join Date: May 2002 Location: port orchard WA Posts: 1,552	The 427 in that truck is an industrial/heavy truck engine. It is about the same as a big block chevy except for a taller deck, different rods and pistons which can be swapped to regular big block pistons with longer aftermarket rods. The distributor is different as s the intake. All the parts are avaialable but they are more expensive. Thick walls in the cylinders and they make for good race motors. __________________ No truck :-(

11-07-2002, 11:37 PM	#4
adamls Gotta Startem Early Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Amarillo, TX, USA Posts: 364	Mucho torque!!! You would have to rebuild if you want top end though. $$$. Should bolt right in, I would do it. __________________ 67 SWB In Progress, one piece at a time, maybe 3 years I will be finished

11-07-2002, 11:53 PM	#6
adamls Gotta Startem Early Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Amarillo, TX, USA Posts: 364	Only one way to find out, if it soesnt then you can have it rebuilt to withstand. One way or another it will have to be rebuilt, right? __________________ 67 SWB In Progress, one piece at a time, maybe 3 years I will be finished

11-08-2002, 03:37 AM	#7
Hooter My other Love Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Castlegar B.C. Canada Posts: 4,085	The bigger the better!. I wouldnt trust a turbo 350 behind it though __________________ Castlegar B.C.The great white North (Canada Eh!) Hooter_5@hotmail.com First generation Monte Carlo club pictures of my life

11-07-2002, 10:48 PM	#3
Fast68Chevy Account Suspended Join Date: May 2000 Location: IL Posts: 0	and its a GM casting so it has same bellhousing pattern as all 55-up engines did

11-07-2002, 11:47 PM	#5
1968GMC love my truck Join Date: May 2001 Location: aylmer QC Posts: 648	I assume the TH350 bolts to it and/but will it whitstand the extra tork?

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