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What's the advantage to this now: check out this motor deal..
- we just now picked up a rebuilt motor not knowing anything about it, which of course is dicey. But I checked it out before we bought it and it looks like a freshly rebuilt and machined chevy smallblock engine for $400.
Now here's the deal on why it's dicey: casting numbers on the block, 330817. Heads are 14014416. They're not supposed to go together because the block is a 400 cubic inch, and the heads list to be from a 305.
So why would somebody build a motor like this? We don't know. Apparently a guy in Los Angeles was a mechanic that got canned and he leaves the motor in the shop. He was building it to replace a "street ripper" of an el Camino motor that was getting soft. Then he lost his job, and his interest.
It comes with exhausts, HEI distributor, intake, heads, main pulley and balancer, and fuel pump with line. It was loaded with lotsa delicious golden-honey 30wt and new oil filter, like it was ready to go.
THINGS KNOWN ON THE MYSTERY OF THE 400-305:
- casting numbers
- built by local shop with new Clevite and Felpro parts
- we could part the heads, block, distrib, exhaust manifolds, and the engine stand separately and probably clear $150-250 in sales
THINGS UNKNOWN ON THE MYSTERY OF THE 400-305:
- what bore was done (.020, .030-over, we don't know)
- what pistons
- what lift camshaft
- what crank is in it
.. and of course the biggest mystery of all, WHY WOULD ANYONE PUT A SET OF 305 HEADS ON A 400 INCH BLOCK?
My question: A) does this seem like a kind of "cheapie-383" build? You know, smaller combustion chambers but on top of bigger inches, and then you just "deck" the block for high compression?
OR
Maybe B) the guy just threw together a "mutt motor" together from stock spare parts? Maybe leftover core block hear and core heads there.. and after awhile he had enough components to "make up" an engine?
What seems the more likely scenario here people, A or B?
- we just now picked up a rebuilt motor not knowing anything about it, which of course is dicey. But I checked it out before we bought it and it looks like a freshly rebuilt and machined chevy smallblock engine for $400.
Now here's the deal on why it's dicey: casting numbers on the block, 330817. Heads are 14014416. They're not supposed to go together because the block is a 400 cubic inch, and the heads list to be from a 305.
So why would somebody build a motor like this? We don't know. Apparently a guy in Los Angeles was a mechanic that got canned and he leaves the motor in the shop. He was building it to replace a "street ripper" of an el Camino motor that was getting soft. Then he lost his job, and his interest.
It comes with exhausts, HEI distributor, intake, heads, main pulley and balancer, and fuel pump with line. It was loaded with lotsa delicious golden-honey 30wt and new oil filter, like it was ready to go.
THINGS KNOWN ON THE MYSTERY OF THE 400-305:
- casting numbers
- built by local shop with new Clevite and Felpro parts
- we could part the heads, block, distrib, exhaust manifolds, and the engine stand separately and probably clear $150-250 in sales
THINGS UNKNOWN ON THE MYSTERY OF THE 400-305:
- what bore was done (.020, .030-over, we don't know)
- what pistons
- what lift camshaft
- what crank is in it
.. and of course the biggest mystery of all, WHY WOULD ANYONE PUT A SET OF 305 HEADS ON A 400 INCH BLOCK?
My question: A) does this seem like a kind of "cheapie-383" build? You know, smaller combustion chambers but on top of bigger inches, and then you just "deck" the block for high compression?
OR
Maybe B) the guy just threw together a "mutt motor" together from stock spare parts? Maybe leftover core block hear and core heads there.. and after awhile he had enough components to "make up" an engine?
What seems the more likely scenario here people, A or B?
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