Small block 400's???

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by MikeB

You probably would have noticed it in the mountains. The 400 made at least 50 lb/ft more TQ than a 350 of the same year. And it did it at very low RPM. I'd guess around 400 lb/ft at 2500 RPM. Great for trucks and station wagons.

Yeah, it was only a couple miles from the downtown showroom/shop to big dirt lot where they stored most of the inventory. Sometimes they were right off the transport and not yet tuned for the altitude. The set up shop was also downtown so everything got ferried back and forth.

But there was a big steep hill right behind the storage lot, where salesmen would take customers in a 4x4 to show off how they would climb. It was almost "mandatory" for us flunkies to take a turn up and down the hill in every new 4x4 Had to make sure they weren't defective, you know