-=> Quoting KEITH SCUDDER to LANDON ROBINSON <=-
 
 LR>My 350 that replaced the worn out (but still running) 327 was going to go 
in
 LR>a race car but the guys who owned it went their separate ways and the one
 KS> I'm surprised the guy sold a complete engine that was also warmed over
 KS> for so little, you were lucky. What was wrong with the 327, rings?
From when I had the heads off once, you could see the rings from the edge
wear on the pistons but it did great when you floored the gas pedal.  The
valve guides were wearing out and it was having trouble getting up long
steep hills.  I didn't have the money at the time to overhaul it so I sold
it for $300 and bought the 350.  A friend of my fathers overhauled it and
put it in his '65 ElCamino.  He bored it into a 334 and said it hauls ass.
 KS> Now don't yell, but by chance did you have just water in it during
 KS> some lousy winter? One time I had bought a 56' Chevy 210 with a pucky
 
I did the block was froze solid.
 KS> house in Mass. and the shit hit the fan. The freezeout plugs were
 KS> pushed out and the block was cracked. After $50 I had to lay out, I was
 
My were not pushed out but a couple were leaking (from electrolysis) and
when it froze it pushed out the weak spots and turned a little dribble into
a water foutain.  I believe one of them behind the fly wheel is leaking too
which means the engine has to come out.
 KS> pissed and I returned the engine pretty quick thereafter. From that is
 KS> how I got my Vette 327 V-8 and that mutha hauled!
327's are good racing motors they spin good.  Mine before it wore
out would really go.  Somebody told me about a 305 they were able to spin to
12,000 RPMs I don't know if I believe him or not, like his breath alot of his
stories smelled like... ahem.
Ttyl,
-Landon
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