63 327 engine weight
01-12-2018, 10:24 AM
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63 327 engine weight
Going to pick up my bare 327 engine block today. Anyone know what it weighs?
01-12-2018, 12:08 PM
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My 2017 GMPP catalog says a 305 replacement stock block weighs 185lbs and a 350 weighs 181lbs. That chould be close enough.
Yea 2 people can move a bare block. But you if move entire long blocks you gonna want a hoist. Have to brag about the Harbor Freight hoist I have mounted in my dually. Just picked up a 400 long block over the holidays. Snatched it by myself before the other CL block hounds found it. For less that $100 that bed mounted HF hoist has paid for itself several times already. Don't have a shop hoist so it does double duty to move the blocks from the cradle to the stand and back and to the machine shop and back all by myself. Can't stop blaberating about it.
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Yea 2 people can move a bare block. But you if move entire long blocks you gonna want a hoist. Have to brag about the Harbor Freight hoist I have mounted in my dually. Just picked up a 400 long block over the holidays. Snatched it by myself before the other CL block hounds found it. For less that $100 that bed mounted HF hoist has paid for itself several times already. Don't have a shop hoist so it does double duty to move the blocks from the cradle to the stand and back and to the machine shop and back all by myself. Can't stop blaberating about it.
Hope this helps.
01-12-2018, 12:09 PM
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Just did this last November.
IIRC, when I looked it up, it was around 180# with main bearing caps, but bare.
My son and I easily picked it up, and I'm somewhat broken down.
the guy at the shop lifted by hand himself.
IIRC, when I looked it up, it was around 180# with main bearing caps, but bare.
My son and I easily picked it up, and I'm somewhat broken down.
the guy at the shop lifted by hand himself.
01-12-2018, 02:41 PM
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Um, I don't think the early blocks tipped the scales at 180-ish pounds. I believe more like 140 - 150 is the right range.
I'm not and never have been powerfully constructed yet I used to be able to dead lift an early bare block and move it short distances. No way could I have done that if it had been close to 180 lbs.
Fast forward to when I decided to build my Grand Sport vintage racer and I bought a Donovan aluminum block for it. Bare, that block weighs 85 lbs and it's a piece of cake to pick up and move.
Oh, and one forum member (who can identify himself if he so chooses) has a prototype magnesium small block which weighs a paltry 35 lbs!
I'm not and never have been powerfully constructed yet I used to be able to dead lift an early bare block and move it short distances. No way could I have done that if it had been close to 180 lbs.
Fast forward to when I decided to build my Grand Sport vintage racer and I bought a Donovan aluminum block for it. Bare, that block weighs 85 lbs and it's a piece of cake to pick up and move.
Oh, and one forum member (who can identify himself if he so chooses) has a prototype magnesium small block which weighs a paltry 35 lbs!
01-12-2018, 03:50 PM
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Somehow it is easier to pick up a bare engine block than an early vette hardtop.
01-12-2018, 05:35 PM
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Even little ol me can pick that one up.
01-12-2018, 07:00 PM
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