In this I will be running a chevy 327 with lunati cam. Thanks for watching and let me know if you have questions. Be sure to like and subscribe for future videos.
I used to be Chevy dude my self ! Got tired of my 1987 IROC Z 5speed car busted all the time got her new in 1988 my baby had 35 of the 36 options GM offered that year ! Had that car till 2003 she only had 50000.0miles on her cause sit in barn with busted trans or rear end she had great engine 305 TPI with driver side dip stick never had the first problem with engine idled 45lbs oil pressure
@@scottyjones27 check out my third gen on my channel and the third gen was a poor poor performance car lol they was a product of the eighties war on smog and because of that they had no power but they do get great gas mileage I've restored mine and it has a 450hp 357 now I couldn't handle that 305
From my opinion and experience just from listening I think there's a subtle difference in a big block Chevy that sounds better than the small block Chevy. But both are great
The 327 was durable, reliable, and exciting. My '68 Camaro, British racing green color, had a 327. Loved that little car. You don't need monster horsepower to have fun. You can still get in a lot of trouble with 350 horsepower.
Then they put a load on em and realize oh shit this wasnt made for 4,000 lbs. Lol. Just busting, nice sounding 327, my deceased father built many many of em.
@@michaelkeyes3856 A good friend of mines parents had a 1969 Chevy Biscayne back in the 80s with 3 on the tree and a 327 in it and it ran damn good for a stock car.
Beautiful engine, I love it !!! Around 40 years ago, I installed a modded L79 into the back seat area of a `66 Corvair. 2600 pounds motivated by 400 HP equals big fun ! Many 396 Chevelles, Goats, Road Runners, Boss `stangs, etc. got embarrassed by a "lowly Corvair". I miss those days....
Corvair's have barely moved in the marketplace value wise. Chances are you have more time and money than ever. Perhaps it's time to relive those thrilling days of yesteryear?
@@michaelmaher4328 Guaranteed, Nader would have cried like a little girl if I took him for a ride.... War story: Probably the most interesting encounter, I was headed down NJ Rt. 202 South, heading into New Hope, Pa. one fine afternoon, and noticed something low, wide, and FAST coming up in my mirror. It was my first time seeing a Lambo Countach, and the driver was wearing a turban (I shit you not !) He was obviously in a hurry to get somewhere, so I downshifted to third, and came ripping up alongside him. He glanced over at me, looking slightly confused. I punched it, and so did he. Pretty much dead even, up into the triple digits. Now he looked REALLY confused, and motioned for me to pull over onto the side of the road. He was immediately all over my car, wanted to know everything about it. I gave him the Cliff Notes version of the build specs, he seemed impressed. He was a grey-market import dealer from Connecticut, delivering the Lambo to some rich customer down in Bucks County. That was a GOOD afternoon....
@Charlie Booker neither does a car with a manual gearbox and they dont all rev like that. Doesnt make him a rookie. Why not shut your responsive pie hole and we will wonder if you are a dipshit instead of you confirming it.
@Charlie Booker - the comment isn't about how quickly the revs pick up. it's about how quickly it responds to the throttle. I was going to make the same comment. Be careful who you see as a rookie, because you may become toast on the streets.
@Austin Carlson - not necessarily. There's a little trick to engine tuning where you can get even better throttle response without a timing light or any engine scope or electronics (after you get initial timing). Do you know how that works?
One of the more perfect combinations Chevrolet ever hit on. These motors ended up in just about every kind of hot rod you can think of. IT SOUNDS SO GOOD, THANKS!
Fun info, Late 70's i bought a red, 1967 Camero, 327, 2bbl, 4 speed, from a car dealer in Bristol, Ct., for $1100. It was a fast car up to 95mph. I was a hippie in my 20's, with wife and son. If I could have built like the man in this video, the marriage wouldn't have even lasted the 10 years it did !!!!!!
Cool thermostat housing . I had the pleasure of assembling a 327 with a lunati hydraulic cam and that engine started at the back of the pack in both the heat and the feature on a 1/4 dirt track and thoroughly trounced all the 355 engines that evening by winning both the heat and the feature . I have seen a chevy 302 do the same thing .
This brings back fond memories... mine was the last of the 1968 small journal, and I put an Edelbrock Torker II single plane manifold with a Holley 600 DP on top. This one in the video sounds just like mine at idle when the camera panned around the back.
Interesting cam numbers,bigger lift on the exhaust side.Looks like that intake compresses air quite good too.I bet that thing stomps out around 400 horse.
@Bill Knotts No, they rev quick because they have a 3.25 stroke and a good rod ratio. Put a flywheel or a converter on, and it will still rev quick. But thanks for pointing that out! Former 327 with a 4 speed owner...
Your reply reminds me. A friend had a new 66 Nova with the 327/350 hp and a 4 speed. I don't remember what gear but with a set of Micky Thompson slicks as the only modification it would lift the left front tire when he launched it. It was stock and his daily driver. It was one fast car. The next year another friend, not to be out done, bought him a Nova but the 350 hp was not available and the 325 hp he ended up with would not lift the left front like the 350. I always thought that Chevy under rated the hp on that engine and it was more like 375 hp.
That awesome OE intake came from the GM Winters racing plant, common on the ole dz302`s (the Snowflake with the W inside it is the indicator . I did a 350 build many years back using that intake, 283 power pack heads that i removed about 10#s of metal from the ports and a 2nd design offroad z cam advanced for piston clearance help, .250 dome pistons massaged for the tiny combustion chambers (245-250#s cranking compression). Had to side cut/gap and index the sparkplug ground straps (closed plug gaps at 5000rpms before doing so). She was crazy fast, nothing to turn 8600 thru 2 gears, never lost a street race with it other then a small black truck with no badges and starnge fender flares that left like a slingshot (darn GMC Cyclone with NOS). Went thru a bad patch, hurting for money and and i sold it and the Nova it was in. 25 years later i`m still kickin my backside for selling it. Friends laughed at my using such small valves until they seen the tail lights running away lol. This 350 revs better then mine for sure, betting his budget was lot`s more then mine was back then.
@@Homerhey .would have loved to have pulled alo g side you in my 1967 camaro. 350 30 over 366 16.5 to 1 comparison rto 675/326 cam 4degs adv ported polished heads single carb naturally aspirated 400 turbo trans 5500 stall.would run quarter mile in 8sec.
@@norristammislideshowmulgre877 You had more money in 1 cylinder head then i did in the whole engine! This was something i built under 800$ trying to prove a point to my best friend whose 79z28 was supposedly un beatable. He claimed about 5k in his engine and trans. I took an old 4" bore block, ball honed, ordered a std bore set of 0.250 Cast domes from PAW, cast rings, clenite bearings, Can't remember where the offroad Z copy cam was bought. Lifters were part of a tray of TRW lifters i bought often. The snowflake (W) intake was a freebie i scored, the crank was a factory 2442 crank from a 305 out back i was told would cause vibration (did not cause any) small balancer, the rods were a matching set i picked from my collection of OE X rods. I pressed the rods and installed the cam bearings myself. The ONLY machine shop work was paying to be sure the crank was straight and to turn it for extra oil clearance. HV Melling pump , harland sharp roller rockers. Stock HEI , old worn out throttle plate 750 dp holley i had, 2-3 weeks of porting on those tiny valve 283 pwr pk heads (weekly after work and some on the weekend). Wound up using some ole .0018 metal shim head gaskets.. No clue what a 1/4 mile time would have been , whole point of this was to show a friend that just spending money doesn't mean you go faster. Took me a couple weeks of tuning things, total timing, timing curve, valve lash etc and instead of being a half car back i was a whole car ahead where we all raced on the terraces. My friend was so mad he yanked his engine and said he broke something is why he lost, oddly enough he wouldn't let me help and he also refused to race me again afterwards! This car was not mini tubbed, it had some blowby, it also spun the tires at any point i touched the back barrels if still in 1st gear. 1 BB Nova i ran was a neighbors and it ran 7.15s in the 1/8 and i ran door to do with him and spun the whole time. It was fun, cheap, drew alot of attention cause everyone knew i barely had 1200$ in the whole 1973 heavy nova. I ran a small 2500 BOSS HOGG convertor since i daily drove the car. Fellow employee at the shop i worked at liked to brag about his "buddiees mustang", that`s all he ever talked about. Caught him out 1 nite and knew he had a NOS plate system (suppose to have been off that nite?), cause he installed a paxton sc the day before. We both had traction trouble and he wanted a 45 kick. Had him by a fender and then a huge ball of fire came out of his car, thought he blew up so i turned around , he ran and lost me in the curves. Was told by the guy at work that he had the nos on and the bottle ran dry against me but i don't know that as fact, i do know he shut up about that car finally tho lol
That's how they was back in the day ! If ur old enough you can remember those oil cans ya stabbed that snorkel in oh boy did not take long to dump qt in one either!
@@scottyjones27 A coworker was helping his grandpa and found a case of double eagle oil.... Incase your not aware that brand was recycled oil.... hadn’t seen it in 30 years
God... I miss my 327's so much. With a nice Muncie 4 speed, doesn't get any better, bigger yes, better no. Now i am in my 70's and drive a s#$t box v6. To have my l79 72 nova again. That is one sweet engine, sounds great.
Sweet!!!! Smooth,,no shaking all over!! Typical of the non square sb chev blocks.... it revs fast n good torque #'s Sounds really healthy 2. I've been a 327 fan since my first car as a kid... a Bel Air w 327 4bb quadraflush. Some carb tuning by my dad after I cleaned it rebuild. I could have changed it 4 a holler. Or Carter afb series. These days there r SOOO many choices !! Change 2 a hei system more coil pack energy n quality/larger diameter plug wires 2 reduce line resistances. Electric h2o pump. And fans. Create smaller steer pump pulley. Anyway I love this version !!! So beautiful in sound, perfect & look good 2 !!! Thanks
The 1965 Corvette with 327 L76 engine produced 365 hp at 6200 rpm and 360 lb-ft torque at 4000 rpm. 11.0:1 compression ratio, solid lifters and a Holley 4 barrel carb. Box stock it's easily one of the hottest small block engines ever built in the 60's.
Yep....that was the fuelie motor with a Holley double-pumper. The Rochester FI gave it another 10 HP. GM engineers really had their game together back then.
NIce engine. It's something like what I had -Way back there. 327 General Kennetics 550 lift/320 dur. Both int. exh. on both numbers. Complete balance,potered & polished heads & intake that's a small list. Solid flat tap cam. We built it on the early nascar types. It was all cast iron. Ran at 7grand rpm consistently.
That's a nice looking and sounding engine. Now if you can get it to rev like that with a water pump, alternator, and a power steering pump dragging it down, not to mention a torque converter full of fluid, you will have a good running, torquey engine. I built my little 406 sbc stroker in my 1985 swb C10 that will rev like a damn prostreet car. I went with the upgraded factory set up on the front of the engine. With a rediculously expensive aluminum flywheel lol, and a 2,800 12" converter connected to a 2 speed power glide. It does have a demon 850 double pumper on it. Fed by a holley red fuel pump lol....
I am a Ford fan.....dedicated Ford fan but the 327 was as far as I’m concerned the best Chevy engine ever. It dates back to my high school days seeing it in split window fuel injected ‘Vettes, Malibu SS’s, Camaro SS and even the big heavy Chevy 327 powered Impala’s.........the 327 was killing the Fords. Ford didn’t have anything in that cubic inch range that could hang with anything with a 327 in it. Ford guys were building their 390’s and still couldn’t hang with the fast high revving 327s. I’m still a Ford guy but if I was building any kind of Chevy I would find a 327 for it. Screw the LS......a simple cammed free revving 327 to take me down the road on a summer night would be all that I’d need. Gotta have the Muncie behind it then it’s a perfect world.
Always had good luck with Lunati cams.. Actually found this video looking for a video of the cam I'm looking at for my ride..Thinking of going with either a VooDoo solid cam or s Street Strip solid.. Sounds great.
L79 350hp 327 intake. Also used on 365hp 327 Corvette. This intake was used prior to the 67-69 302 high rise intake that was also used on LT-1 350's. The early intake is identified by the sharp corner on the #2 cylinder runner.
That's my favorite engine of all time and I've even had big blocks which I have a 454 now but all around and get good fuel mileage if set up right and can somehow 🤣manage to keep your foot out of it. I'd like to have another one someday.👍
@@austinpaul2170 Someone had to have taken a rare large journal 327 crank (68-69?) and put it in a 350 block. Chevy didn't put any 4 bolt 327 in a 67 vette. Odds are that it was a 2 bolt 327. Someone made the decision to un-Pontiac the Firebird by swapping a Pontiac 350 or 400 for a sbc.
327 double hump. Offy Port-0-Sonic 600cfm vac secondary. Duntov cam. Fenderwell headers in 64 Chevy II with M-20 and Hurst. After I sold the car, I was told it ran 12's all day long with a 4:11 installed. Too much temptation. I lost my license.
L79 327ci small blocks in those old Chevy II's (Nova's) were bad ass street racers. Put those engines in those lightweight cars with a 4 speed and a 4.56 gear and you got yourself a big block killer both on the street and the strip.
Love the valve covers sure is one fine sounding motor! I have a L76 code 1968 gonna put it in a 68 chevy c10 swb with muncy M21 3:40 posi rear end G50 option truck with leaf springs I used a comp cam factory muscle cam is spose to be the same as the 350 hp can that came in them I hope it sounds and takes fuel as good+as this one does I didn’t get the heads for mine but I got some 5 angle valve aluminum 64 cc with angle plugs to put on it I hope that don’t hurt it every one said the aluminum heads are bad to warp I still got a little bit to go before hearing it run but it sure is nice hearing this one makes me wanna get to working on mine thanks
What is the intake model? I'm still kind of new to all the specific parts. Building a sbc currently and would definitely dig this setup for mine. Only I'm building a 350 5.7
Now if somebody could take my 2004 Chevy Trailblazer EXT LS with the 5.3 L Vortec engine naturally aspirated and make it sound like that I would be so happy
Fifteen and a half in 1980 first car 1967 Camaro 327 4 speed 4.11's 12 bolt. Got scratch in all 4 gears. I thought I was king shit............ until I raced a Roadrunner with a 440 six pac. That car F'd up my world. In 83 I built a 427 .060 over for the Camaro and hunted down that Roadrunner and destroyed it and a lot of other cars too.
