Most Iconic Engines From The Golden Era Of Muscle Cars! 

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I call BS.

@@leonardhirtle3645 On what? Can you be more specific? I am a Ford guy and to me the FE was the best option and most under tuned and underrated of all. I like the 70s truck blocks best they had the 3 rib main, better oil passage consistency, and I have some old ProStock Engineering main caps that are made with oiling passeges that are free to the crank through croosbolts that are hollow and using ARP hardware and running lines off the oil filter adapter feed oil to the crank and you only need two I put one on 2and 4 mains let it feed the can from the bottom and put plugs in the passeges above the cam to let the oil drop to the pan on 2 and 4 and it raises the oil pressure to 1-3-5. 1 has a direct shot anyway so it really improves 3 and 5 mains and all of the rods greatly. ARP bolts too, and get 1 mm 1mm 2 mm rings and .105 thick pushrods and conical springs for a hyd or solid roller. Light and well balanced. Also if you get a good bore truck block forget about making it a 428. Bore it as little as you can., like 4.096 for a good block and a Scat 3.98 crank that is turned down to 2.2 rod journals and use 6.8 rods, 3.865 stroke if it’s 2.43 rod journals, that is a solid 407 ci with a 10.155 deck a 1.42 ch piston, and with a 3.865 stroke and a 6.8 rod, a 1.756 rod to stroke, like a 327 Chevy. Do a short fill up to the core plugs and you’ll have.160plus thick bores. You can put a set of Trick Flows and a 2x4 with Holleys or Holley throttle body injection and you’ll have a quick revving bulletproof 600 hp 55O lb ft engine that could be 900 hp with an S475 or S480. At 8 lbs of blow through boost to each carb. I d enjoy that if I could see to drive it. Oh and that’s on 93 with 9.7:1 ch.

I’m 62 and know exactly what you’re talking about, it’s hard to believe that in the late 70’s early 80’s we could pick up nice firebirds and Camaros for $1500

​@@leonardhirtle3645leonard, baby, it's very easy for someone to have had most of these. You used to be able to pick up a 68 Charger RT for 500 bucks. 1980 give or take,- dozens of other cool models. People wanted nothing to do with the old gas Hogs , did not know what they had

Thats what happens when non automotive enthusiasts and ai generated you tube video attempts to enlightening us with automotive history ,,every manufacturer made at least on engine if not many sometimes that could absolutely tear up a track or a Saturday night prowling the streets looking for prey😂😂😂I truly love them all hemi,big block chevy 455 olds,pontiac, Buick ,big blocks .my favorite is the hemi ,big block chevy,and ford Nascar scj.all engines I cannot afford to possess. So sometimes you roll with the poor man's engine that can produce a easily obtainable 450 hp and the cheapest of all to build 😮the 350,400 small block chevy😊,now superseded by the ls 😮but I will always dream of a giant hemi❤another sleeper was my 71 dodge demon 340 it really surprised me with some additional speed parts and a&h slicks on the back could sometimes leave folks in aw😊😊😊as it reved away down the hot top yes it was a 4 speed car with 4.11 rear still kick myself in the arse for selling that car in 1986 for my new wife and children 😊

💯agreed...buddy had a 1970 Dodge dart,w/340... Man the dual exhaust had a " bark"

318/360 not always the power house but very reliable engines . 318 can be made to make 300 HP without to much trouble .

@@richrosati7146 I agree I want a lot with it too, but I found out that they just didn’t stack up to the big block Chevys especially the 375 horse

Mr. B. Here ! 🍩☕️👀😎👍. I’ll be 72 , and your correct Oldsmobile engines go’s back to 1949 the 303 cid . So with my fellow Oldsmobile is not popular today so if look at it from a marketing most of the cars in the video is keeping the aftermarket stone , we for the most part are out in the cold ! 🍩☕️👀😎👍

The fire turbo 327 is my favorite engine, power vs weight! That being said! The Chevy's 283 & Ford's 289 especially that block has probably won more racing Gold than all the engines combined? Sometimes bigger isn't always better when it comes to car motors! How many Years did 4 cylinder engines run in the Indy? And win!

I agree totally!! Very odd it was left out. Im s BB CHEVY FAN, BUT THE SMALL BLOCKS WERE GREAT....283-327-302--350...... 327 WITH MULTIPLE H.P. RATINGS.....FUELIES TOO. We all know how this goes so I'm ending here.😂

@@johnmartinelli5511 I’m Class of 1979, Mt. Morris, Michigan In high school I had a low mileage 1970 Buick GS 455 Not a stage car, just a great running Buick big block, on any given weekend I had the fastest car or the second fastest car in my high school, 1/4 mile street racing, my best competition was a 1970 Pontiac Trans Am 455, and back then it could be as simple as who could afford a full tank of Sunoco 104 gasoline ! The Chevy big blocks in my class were behind both of us ! Back then as working high school students things like drag slicks were out of our reach, what we would run in the rear were RE-CAP SNOW TIRES ! Real soft compound rubber and cheap ! Come Monday morning in the student parking lot you could always tell who was racing that weekend, bald snow tires still mounted, rubber all over rear quarters ! Back then there were still full service gas stations, and so many of us worked at these stations with a TIRE MOUNTING MACHINE AND SPIN BALANCER ! And…. A endless supply of used tires ! No such thing as discount tire, you went to your small town gas station for tires ! I wish I still had that old Buick, I loved that car !

@@dougmcwhirter419 had the highest torque rating even beating the 454 Chevy

Original 302 but not a Boss more like assistant manager! Ford man here but I also like Chevy and some Mopars and love the AMC SC/Rambler

in a corvette 1968-9 465 hp 454 v8 ls6 3 x 2bbl`s - i have stood next too a lot at car show`s - put an exhaust = 550hp .

The 409 should’ve been covered in more depth because as it progressed, they offered a ZL 11 409 with a unusual intake that produces more horsepower than any 409 before it successfully drag race and the full size Chevys with some exceptional times that in a lot of classes to this day, I believe is unequal❤

@@jd4harley 👍

@@jd4harleyCorrection that was known as RPO Z11.😊

427 SOHC = now were talking ! john kossie engines

In my experience, the first 429 cj heads were not that great. We had better performance with 429 pi heads, fitted with the cj valves, a basic bowl blend, and used the cj intake, port matched to the smaller pi heads. Built a number of these. Just my experience. Thanks for the video.

@@cjespers I’m more experienced with the FE. They build into surprisingly good engines. The 385 series is really good, but the FE when done right are stout. I have tried to get into 385s, but FEs are so numerous, were anyway back then, they were really easy to get the parts to have a good one to build.

The Buick GSX powered by the 455 CI V8 was a fast car and awesome engine but was produced in limited numbers and was extremely expensive, similar to the Mercury Montigo Cyclone MX with the 429 CI. This video, however, is about "most iconic" and does cover them fairly well.

You read Motor Trend ? And you say so in public? OOOOOF that is no good . William F Bransford

Its just cars: "There is no such thing. Trust me, I know all about cars."

@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 Then why does my engine say 427?

@@marcotelli1601 Ask "its just cars" He's the so-called "expert". Like Trump calls himself "the genius", remember?

​@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602Fact checking politicians will likely expose them all. Some say they finished at the top of their class in university.

@@basilcarroll9729 If you're talking about Donald Trump, he never finished 4th grade... much less a college or university. Donald Trump is most definitely a "fat-checking" politician.

I meant to enter 455

Hey that's fine I do that to? And I have to do the same thing you did? add it in?

You might have to change out the cam and possibly the heads too? And add a 4 barrel intake and carburetor? Because of how much lower the power was in 1973 ?

@@rickstephens1130 I was wondering if 1970 w30 heads or after market aluminum heads would be practical?

True that Buick had a 510 torque ,one year only in 1970. Oldsmobile had a 510 torque 455 in 1968-69 and 1970. A long with their 500lb 455s.

@@basilcarroll9729 70 was the pinnacle year for muscle cars. In 71 they changed horsepower ratings , and mandates started on muscle cars due to epa and insurance.

Whatta' bout the 400 and 455 Oldsmobile W30, I think that should made the list.

I've got one with a 352 w

Sez who???🤷

@@user-gh8iw6fp2i It probably has four wheels and tires, too. That doesn't make it a muscle car any more than having vinyl interior makes it a sports car.

@@jeffmiller3150 Says any knowledgeable automotive historian who knows WTF he's talking about. That does NOT include idiot buffoons like "itsjustcars" [sic]!

⁠Yes it’s a Grandma and Grandpa car. 😂😅😂😂😂😢😅 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only in NASCAR, the 427 Tunnel Port while they were getting the Boss 429 lined out. Thex427 TP was faster on some tracks.

@@Bbbbad724 , what I meant was on the street.

@@markrenton1093 It aggravates me too, I could never get why? I could put a 282S in, a set of headers and a Holley Street Dominator single plane and a 3310 like case on the first year 396 and a 2ft header extension of 3 inch pipe with a see of14 inch glasspacks and it was like kicking a grizzly bear in the nuts. It was that easy. There wasn’t a motor I know of that was such a Jekyll and Hyde. They could given us a 282 S type as an option, and some manifolds like every other make had. Sure was fun. 👍

Can you spell 'Corvair'? barfbullet: "Yes, Corvair is spelled P O N T I A C".

@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 thought corvair chevy. Ralph Nader is responsible for the nasty BB h.p.

pontiac made their own engines up till 1981 remaining very differant from Buick or oldsmobile = GOOGLE IT !

You understood wrong. All divisions of GM built their own engines up until the late 1970s.

engines were crap !

Negative 69

@@JacksoNR26 Windsor 69 Cleveland 70 lots of people get confused with all the 4×3.5 fords

NO july 1969 - google it first = STUPID >

@@pughoneycutt1986 GOOGLE IT 351 cleveland = JULY 1969 = 302 v8 windsor 1968 your stupid !

​@@pughoneycutt1986They do have a lot of them, don't they? 351C, 351W, 351M, 352.....that's just off the top of my head