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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: escondido, ca 92026
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smallblock 400 donor vehicles...??
Anyone know which vehicles came with this motor....?? Wanna keep an eye out for a good cheap rebuildable core...
thanks.
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Location: Georgetown, KY, USA
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Early 70's Impala, Caprice, trucks....That is all I can think of.
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Hollander shows the following could have a 400 2bbl engine:
70-76 Big Chevys (Implala, Caprice, etc) 74-76 Monte Carlo 74 Chevelle 75-80 Trucks/Blazers/Vans (GMC's also) 78-80 Suburban 75-76 GMC Sprint Your best bet will be the big Chevys. In the big Chevys look for station wagons. I had a friend back in college that got a 400 out of a station wagon and put it in his 73 rally sport Camaro and could roast his tires all day long.
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Back around 78/79 or so, I had a 74 Chevelle wagon as a dealer loaner. It had the 400 in it.
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thanks for the info... I figured that the mid-70s boats would probably be a source, but wasn't aware that the trucks had em too....
Wasn't there a thread on how to identify a 400 recently...??? for some reason I don't have rights to use the search engine... anyone else have this problem...???
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Join Date: Feb 2000
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Some 400's had two freeze plugs per side...some had 3 per side. The ones with 2 per side are more desirable...and get this, the 2 bolt mains are the better block because the four bolt mains were prone to crack where the outside bolt holes were drilled.
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~dzug/92z28/406project.html
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WHYBYNU when old will do?
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Where can you get the Hollander book from? It sounds like a goldmine!
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