396 Block
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Melting Slicks
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396 Block
There a 396 block for sale locally for 500 bucks. Paperwork proves is been cleaned and magnafluxed by a local well known engine builder.Not that I would ever use it but thought since they've gotten few and far between maybe I'd pick it up just to have.
Is the price fair? opinions?
Thanks
Is the price fair? opinions?
Thanks
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Melting Slicks
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Honestly I can remember. Its out of a 67 camaro, I would think its a 4 bolt. I'm going to go tomorrow and get a closer look at it, get some pics and the numbers. It is standard bore.
Don't really know what I'd do with it, but I don't see to many of these around anymore.
Sorry its out of a chevelle SS.
2 bolt main
The front pad reads T0223EF 7B162725. The date code is B-7-7 and the casting number is 3902406
Don't really know what I'd do with it, but I don't see to many of these around anymore.
Sorry its out of a chevelle SS.
2 bolt main
The front pad reads T0223EF 7B162725. The date code is B-7-7 and the casting number is 3902406
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There a 396 block for sale locally for 500 bucks. Paperwork proves is been cleaned and magnafluxed by a local well known engine builder.Not that I would ever use it but thought since they've gotten few and far between maybe I'd pick it up just to have.
Is the price fair? opinions?
Thanks
Is the price fair? opinions?
Thanks
Plus, to get a high-HP 396, you'll have to have a pretty radical setup, whereas a 496 (454 +.25" stroker crankshaft), will be much more streetable and live longer.
My last BBC was a 427 tall-deck that I stroked out to 525... My total cost was right around $6k. To build a really bitchin' 396 will run close to that, and you'll spend approximately the same amount for a 454...
So go with the largest amount of cubes possible, to start with.
For big performance, nobody screws with the "baby" rat motors, any more...
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I don't really know if I'd ever put it in the C4. I just thought that since I really don't see them around that much and if the price was good then I'd pick it up. Only for the "what if" scenerio.
some good points though. 396 parts may be limited, and the 454 is a much more readily available block.
some good points though. 396 parts may be limited, and the 454 is a much more readily available block.
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Not sure here, but with some machine work, cant you put a 454 crank in it and make a 427?
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When the motor goes south in my 96 I would love to put in a 454 smallblock, but my worry would be emission testing. Something tells me it won't be long till we have it in all 50states. Then there's the all aluminum LS swap. I hear they can take a 4" crank but still looking into the doable/cost of that swap.
My brother had one of those 396 blocks with the 2 bolt mains, he sold it with the 429SCJ block he was holding onto for a future project. I guess he needed the cash for something different.
My brother had one of those 396 blocks with the 2 bolt mains, he sold it with the 429SCJ block he was holding onto for a future project. I guess he needed the cash for something different.
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But when you add up the machining costs, +the cost costs of 427 pistons (also expensive, at this point), you'd be money ahead to go 454/496, in the same external package...
While I love the sound of high-winding 396 BBC, they just can't hang when they're beat but 100 cubes.
Anyway, all IMO.
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buy that if you can a numbers matching chevelle 396 block for 500 bucks?youll make a killing,the last thing you would do is put that in a corvette.check to be sure but im thinking freakishly rare.re- sale and bank the profit.
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I personally wouldnt stick a BBC in a C4 simply because it throws off the F/R weight balance quite a bit. I would rather stick it into an old muscle car, that would be cool not to mention much easier.
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I have a 396 in my 69 el camino. I like it. The sound, the low end torque, and the look of the massive heads and the best part is setting off car alarms in parking lots
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67 396
I am in Fort Worth Texas and have been looking for a 67 block.I have intake and heads all date coded B-3-7.Are you dead set against shipping? My email is gthreadgill@charter.net
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No.To make a 427 all you have to do is get a standard set of 427 pistons wich is 4.250 and bore the block to 4.250 and use a 396/427 crank.The cranks in 396 and 427 are the same.Boring 396 out to 4.250 is common.The 396 blocks have alot of meat and can be bored even larger than 4.250.
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396 block
There a 396 block for sale locally for 500 bucks. Paperwork proves is been cleaned and magnafluxed by a local well known engine builder.Not that I would ever use it but thought since they've gotten few and far between maybe I'd pick it up just to have.
Is the price fair? opinions?
Thanks
Is the price fair? opinions?
Thanks
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Melting Slicks
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From: Clifton Park NY
I am in Fort Worth Texas and have been looking for a 67 block.I have intake and heads all date coded B-3-7.Are you dead set against shipping? My email is gthreadgill@charter.net
I'm not the one selling it.
Not even sure if I'd buy it.
If your intersted in it let me know and I can look at it for you.
I just sent you an email
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No.To make a 427 all you have to do is get a standard set of 427 pistons wich is 4.250 and bore the block to 4.250 and use a 396/427 crank.The cranks in 396 and 427 are the same.Boring 396 out to 4.250 is common.The 396 blocks have alot of meat and can be bored even larger than 4.250.
Hope this cleared some of these questions up.
David
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427
This is my first post here....Being as that I am a former engine builder for Racing Head Service in Memphis TN, this is something that I can answer...In order to build a 427 BBC, all you need is a 454 block, 427 pistons, and a crankshaft out of a 427, 396, or a 366 truck enginerings bearings and gaskets for a 454 is identical for a 427. All BBC connecting rods are the same, except the 7/16 bolt dimpled rods and the rods out off the truck engines (tall blocks). 427 and 396 cranks come in cast iron and forged steel, if you find a 366 engine for parts, it will have a forged steel crandk and better rods, everything else on the engine is usless. You also have to get the harmonic balancer from a 396 or 427, both of these engines are internally balanced and the 454 is externallay balanced.
Hope this cleared some of these questions up.
David
Hope this cleared some of these questions up.
David
