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Old Oct 28, 2019 | 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink
This is as good as I've ever gotten my 250hp 63:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js9cH2wfMIE
Made a video of my 283-230hp after recent valve job, sounds a little quieter because the camera is farther away than yours was.
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Old Oct 28, 2019 | 10:27 AM
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That sounds like a real Corvette engine. Not a 230 horse engine.
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Old Oct 28, 2019 | 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by MikeM
I fixed your post for you so it doesn't sound so hostile.

Back in the day, I didn't worry much about what was at the light no matter how much or how little noise they made. Your results may have been different.

It only costs a few bucks more to get a Corvette engine in your Corvette instead of a Bel Air engine. Then you've really got something.

What did you want me to say about my base engine '65? That I think it sounds like a Corvette? Nope, every once in awhile, it gives off a little putt, putt, putt, putt Been doing it since at least 1972 and I took my own advice. Just don't worry about it.
So a cobbled together wannabe is more “real” sounding than a “born with” all stock engine. I don’t know in what parallel universe that applies. It’s the “bolt on enough stuff till it sounds like you think it should” galaxy.

Yawn..... Zzzzzzz
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Old Oct 28, 2019 | 11:33 AM
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Putt, putt,putt, putt and knock, knock, knock, (whose there?), knock. does not sound like a good born with engine . to me. Whatever born with means?

By the way, your engine sounds like it's laboring awful hard while idling. What's wrong with it? Mufflers have the wrong note as well.

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Old Oct 28, 2019 | 01:53 PM
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It will be just fine after Frankie takes it behind the woodshed for an attitude adjustment. It won't be a bad born with engine anymore. It'll come around. You'll see.
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