As a kid in the 1960's my dad owned an L79 327 in our Nova. Even back in those days all the engine enthusiasts knew how special the 327 really was. I'm 65 now and have a L79 on a stand with a 283/292 on another stand with both all new parts. I'm currently modifying my Gen 4 BBC in my 454SS 1990 truck with air gap manifold, new stage 3 cam, HEI, 850 Brawler, and a few other parts. In 2001 I built a 502 CID crate (Scoggin-Dickey) Boss Hoss bike at my house in Plano, Texas and rode it for 5 years until the NESCO transmission planetary disintegrated. I guess I am a gear head. It is not my profession as I was trained as an EE engineer and worked 37 years on telecom systems around the globe. I recently rebuilt an old 1966 Ford FE 428 that was rusted and full of mud bugs. It was from my father-in-law of whom died in 2020. I was really intrigued by the Ford 428. The heads and manifold merged in a unique design unlike GM products of that era. It is fun stuff working on this type of machinery. One day soon after most of us are dead it will be today's kids working on electrical powered vehicles. I see Tesla vehicles on the roads in Dallas and Fort Worth daily but they don't appear as mean as a 1970 LS6 or a Hemi Cuda. I'm thankful I was given the chance to grow up in the muscle car years. Hot 327 powered Camaros, hot girls, 8-tracks under dash, and plenty of fun times. Long live the internal combustion engine.

First off anyone comparing this to a big cubic inch or an LS, obviously missing the point. I had drag race a l 76 set up for years. Small Journal 327, .060 overbore, Same .120 dome pistons.. very same duntov 3030 cam. And using camel hump cylinder heads with some mild Port smoothing. It always ran super strong considering it was small cubic inch. At some point I installed Herbert roller cam CC6k 244 - 252 at .050 .600lift. With old-school 292 turbo heads. Never had it dynoed, but clearly the roller cam and 292 heads made significant power difference. Almost full half-second faster in the 8th mile than the duntov CAM setup. I always wondered what the actual Dyno power was from the original setup. That's what makes this video so interesting to me. Thank you for putting some focus on it

440hp from only 327 (or 331 at .030 over) ci, NA, is outstanding! And no low end tradeoff of torque! Tremendous gains! That in a 63 Nova would be wild! Looks streetable too.

My favorite small block Chevy is the one I’m working on. I don’t care if it’s a 283, 305, 307, 327, 350, 383, 400 or otherwise. I enjoy all of them and I actually like to experiment on 305s and 307s because people give them away. I’ve made a lot more power from them than people think they can make. I mean it’s not a big bore, but cheap 350 horsepower is good.

as i recall the L76 engine was a Vette only option. Great engine back in the day. So interesting how these engines really wake up with modern day components

You just renewed my faith in the 327 and I remember how impressed we were when that engine came out and we started dumping them in our tri-5 Chevys and our Chevy II's and Novas. At that point the double -hump heads were as good as we could get.

Had a 68 DZ302, just loved the sound, and would rev till the cows came home. :-)

In 1973 Ole Sam and I built a 327 from the bottom up good pistons Edelbrock Tarantula intake Crane Fireball hydraulic cam Hooker headers glass bead factory cast iron small valve heads with Manley Stainless tulip swirl finished valves & a Holley Dual inlet double pumper 600 cfm carb.into my 1964 Chevy II SS Nova 2DR hardtop with a Turbo 350 trans. & 4.56 gears ! Man what a ride ! Glory Days for sure !

Gen 1 400 that’s my favorite small block Chevy

Years ago I had a 65 vette with a L-79 327/350hp engine. An awesome combo

327 was the best small block made.

I had some mean 327's back in the 70's. With a four speed trans and a 4.56 rear... Wow, fun, fun, fun!!!!!!

In 1978 (I was 16) my Dad bought me an L76 from a 65 Corvette which replaced the weak 307 that came stock in my 73 Nova. I started to do a lot of street racing, soon I began to hunt Mustangs. I just loved shutting those Fords down. In the 4 years I ran that engine I only got beat one time. A 67 Coronet 440, beat me by a fender in the quarter. At least no Ford ever beat me. I would have won, but my points were fried and I shouldn't have accepted the challenge. My ego and previous record had made me cocky and over-confident. The worst thing is, the dude with the Coronet moved out of state 4 days later so I never got a rematch. My point is, this engine transformed a boring grandma ride into a real street beast. I miss that car more than any other car I've ever owned. Thanks for posting this.

Back in the mid 70's I had a 67 Chevelle with a 300HP 327 and Muncie 4 speed from a 65 Impala, by far my favorite hot rod car, it inspired me to power my stock car with a 327 too, never ran it on a dyno but it won several times against bigger engines, a bit of a mish mash of parts it was really reliable and just seemed to make a good amount of the right kind of power for short track racing. To this day I still daydream about how much I like 327's, by far one of the best engine combinations (bore to stroke to rod ratio) ever conceived, you had to be pretty inept to not be able to make one run damned good.

Mine is the 400. I’ve owned 305’s, 307’s, 350’s, and 400’s and generally build my stuff for the street (and pickup trucks), the torque from the 400’s is my favorite. One of my favorite combos was with Vortec heads, a cheap summit cam (Sum1103), and rebuilt 400 bottom end. It just made a mountain of torque and pulled hard to 5500-6000... more than enough power for stop light to stop light driving.

Good job .we all know with today's technology you can make the 327 more powerful, and thats great. I have a 1965 300hp 327 and just bought a offenhauser 3 two barrel manifold and 3 new rochester 2gc carbs and I am going to be very happy with it in my tr6 triumph going to lunch on Fridays

Long story short. The previous owner of my 69 Z/228 that I purchased in 1970 w/ 6,000 miles for $3,300.00 owned a custom Pick up truck that he showed with a corvette motor. He thought it would be better with the Z motor. After loosing fan belts and an oil leak, my Chevy guru (Paul Joseph) at the parts store told me that the oil seal was from a corvette. The dealer came clean and offered me a brand new crate 302. After a short consideration, I refused cause I was cleaning up on the street ! All I knew was it was a 327/375, 202 valves w/427 springs (3), 4-speed stone crusher w/4:88 rear, hooker headers, Mallory dual point, and 750 Holley. My friend at the local Ford dealer( Dunne Ford) in Providence R.I., put it on the dyno and produced 550 @ 6500 rpm. I shifted it at 8,00 but he wouldn't let me go any higher. It turned a 12.9 once but was otherwise (lol) consistant at anywhere in the low 13's.. Boy do I wish I still had that car! It was Hugger Orange w/Black stripes.

327 was always my favorite sbc

Good stuff. The truth is my beloved 327 was just made at the right time. Give a 400 small block all the same hi-po goodies and it will rule the roost with ease. 2 barrel low compression truck engine. Geez GM, what were you thinking? What impressed me with this video was what the modern cam was able to achieve. To extend the peak RPM range like that while increasing the torque across the board with just a cam. Wow!

I built a 327 back in the 70's and into the 80's in my Vega. Like most guys I was running the double hump heads until I went all out and bought a set of the new Bowtie Aluminum heads with 2.05 intake valves. The difference was amazing..I was already running a decent Crane Cam and Victor Jr single plane intake and those heads woke the beast.

For me, the 327 and 427 are my favorite Chevy engines , from back in the day !

When ever someone says to me, "they don't make em like they used to" . My answer now is always the same. I say, "I know, they are making them way better" . Ha. I remember when the fuelie heads were the shit. Now, HP is easier than ever to make. Just think how good it would have been if you had the modern 4 valve heads and dual over head cams with VVT on 427 ci with EFI, back in the day. Well, maybe not. The tires and brakes sucked pretty bad back then, too. Thanks again Richard!

I wish I was around to see those beautiful long timeless impalas in there prime back in the late 60's...

327 for sure I remember them back in the day when they were stuffed into chevy two bad ass!!!!

My brother had a 1973 Nova we put a 350/350 in, stock. That car would run circles around just about everything else in town. This was in the mid 70s, and we had to doctor up the gas to run it, but it was a great running car. Eventually, we got a better intake, carb, and HEI ignition for it, and that woke it up a lot. Being a Ford man myself, I have always been impressed by that car.

I grew up riding in a 1969 Chevy Impala 327 converted to a 4bbl, my mom loved cars, and I remember the power that little small block had. My favorite is that, although every other motor was amazing with the big 3. I currently own a 2016 GMC Denali with the L83 5.3, bought it new, all the 6.2 were gone, and with the factory Borla exhaust premium grade gas, it does far better than I expected. A 6.2 will just spin, and I’m off and it has to catch me.

This is great! I have a 327, did all the same upgrades edelbrock performer rpm heads, performer rpm intake, crane fireball 290h cam, 1.6 ratio rocker arms, sniper efi with the hyperspark system but not long tube headers. Not enough room...

And yet despite this and other engine builds highlighting the great aftermarket heads - almost every time a SBC build comes up someone will ask “what about fuelie heads?” I guess the fuelie head legend will never die, like a 3/4 race cam for a flathead.

Back in 1965, my brother bought a 327 crate engine from Les Vogel Chevrolet in San Francisco. It was 375 hp. They said that it was one of 7 of these special crate engines to go to the the West Coast. We put that engine, along with a Muncie 4-speed with a .220 first gear in a 62 black Chevy Impala that my brother bought from my parents. He took it to the drags, and when he raced it, he was always twisting axles into barber poles and ripping them in two. Solved the problem by putting a 12-bolt Pontiac rear axle in the car. I have never heard another 327 that sounded like that one. It had a unique lopey rumble Idle. I have no idea what the real horse power of that engine was, but it would buzz 8500 RPM like it was nothing.

I love my 365hp 327 I have put in several different cars over the years it's on the stand for a rebuild and up grade rite now thanks for the information I will follow some of your build my 71 ventura will love it thanks Joe clay

1970 400 sb 4 barrel comp 268 performer intake and 1-5/8” headers 1st build at 14 years old

Sbc 400!!! All day and twice on Sunday!!!

4.155" bore (400sbc .30 over), 3.25" stroke (307/327 lg journal), 6.129" rods (300 I6 ford) 601' heads w/unshrouded 2.02"/1.64" valve set and a set of recessed wrist pin pistons (JE). Your choice of bump stick. Torque and power through the entire rpm range.

1978, I took a 327 bored .030, 11.5 Super Stock pistons, 461 heads with mild porting, Crane Blazer camshaft .465 lift 300 duration only with 1.6 rockers yeilding .496 lift, Holley Strip Dominator and 2" open plenum spacer, 850 Double pumper, Thorley big tube headers with short length collectors. Chassis dyno conversions what they were in those days, the numbers were close indeed. 438 hp but, I don't recall the torque. That thing would just scream. 7200 RPM was a good place to move the lever on the M20.

I had a modified 327/365HP in my 1960 Corvette from 1971-1985. Running 5.13 gears. still miss it !

Chevy's High Performance 327 C.I. was the sweetest production V-8 small block available period.

400 with good cam and rpm air-gap = fun for years!

I had a 67 Corvette, 327 / 300 horse, put 350 cam, lifter, springs, Edelbrock turanchler manifold, Holly 800 DP, distributor worked for 32 degree fast, ran good. This was back 1969 - 1974, Then sold the car. Now have a 1969 Nova 307 I will work on. This will be fun trying to get power to spare. Thanks for the video.

Grumpy Jenkins and his 327 powered Nova, legendary.

Me again. I have done this exact thing to my 67 327. I now run the AFR 190R aluminum head, solid lifter cam 630 lift 11 3\4 to one compression and a Victor Jr intake. We guessed it to make 500 hp. Glad to see this video to back up what we thought.

My old $150 engine, an SHP 327 pulled hard up to 7,400 RPM with a simple valve spring change. The 1963 block code was T0702HK. Someone had put it in a crusty-crab 1968 4-door Caprice. I bought the whole driving car for $150 back in 1978. Parts for my 71 Chevelle. Flat 14 second time-slips all day long at Suffolk Speedway.

I built a lot of small blocks back in the day and it wasn't hard to beat what was available back in the 70's and 80's. Most of the combinations were based on the high HP versions of the 60's but there was one consent, There IS no replacement for displacement and HP is made in the cylinder heads. People used to throwaway 400's, I loved them, you just had to be careful not to overheat them. A few years back I pulled out a 400 shortblock for a buddy that needed one for a '52 Deluxe, that 400 was a shoe in and that boat needed it. Well, I put a set of 062 Vortec's on it and a Comp 260 bumpstick in it and I can't tell you how much power it made but the next upgrade was a new trans after that engine torched the Turbo 350. One of the stronger SBC I'd ever built, definitely my favorite.

I was 15 in 1995.. I got a 1978 LT Camaro for $800 from an old lady and pulled the 305.. dropped in a 327.. 750 double pumper.. performer intake.. a cam that was way too big.. 2800 rpm stall.. not to sure but 273 or 256 gear with one wheel peel.. all the wrong parts.. Yep I loved that 327.. once I got over 3500 RPM it was great.. 1st gear 77mph at 6800 2nd gear 112mph at 6800 3rd gear well the speedometer only went to 145 so who knows what i was doing.. I'm glad I'm still here to write about it..

I have a soft spot for 327’s . My first muscle car, a 1972 Chevelle had a 1965 small journal 327 installed in it. It wasn’t this strong but it revved fast. Had a nice sound to it too. Would’ve been fun to keep that motor and do something like this.

Just had a 327 built for my 1963 nova. Had one in my 1956 nova as a kid. Loved it then so I did another one now . Mega power and torque on the first one. Shifted at 7500 in the nomad.( Solid pink stripe cam, and solid lifters. Can’t wait to drive the nova soon.

Thank you Richard, this was right in my wheelhouse. In the early 70's, I bracket raced a four speed 68 Nova and .060 over 327's were my go-to. For me, they were the fastest for the least money spent at the time. Those AFR heads that you used are Stout! I would have loved to have seen the Trick Flow DHC 175's get a test as well, just to see how close they could come while keeping "the look". They have really good flow numbers for the size of them.

The best factory SBC was hands down the LT1.....But if we're talking building a modern SBC with modern components "there is no replacement for displacement" is always true. The 400 based small blocks today are head and shoulders above the old 327-350 ci engines.

The 267 V8 is my favorite, 3.5" bore and a 3.48" stroke. Because that's what was in my first car, a 1980 Malibu Classic with 2.29 gears and a posi. Poor thing wouldn't spin the tires on a gravel road. Got beat by 4 cylinder S-10s. Needless to say I built a 350 with world product s/r torker heads as soon as I could afford it.

i built the L76 version for my L79 68 corvette 3 years ago. I then put in the exact same cam you di and added HEkimian racing heads. This past winter I went to a hydraulic roller with comp solid roller lifters and zero lashed it. It was the 12-433-8 XR288HR-10 with .520/.540 and 288/294 duration at.006 and used 1.6 roller rockers so it was up around .555/ .575 lift. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! lots of power everywhere. I just milk shaked the engine when the comp lifters failed,..... hoping for a head gasket blowout. Luckily no knocks at all but a complete bath inside. Right now I'm spending the winter scrounging for big block parts. I want to build a 500 ftlb/ 500hp 427 that is driveable and fun. I have the block, intake and pulleys. Just need the guts and good heads. Hopefully I'll find some parts on Marketplace......the pistons, rods, cam. lifters and bearings will be new from Summit of course...$$$$$

Thanks for the continued great content.. you have given me some direction on my 327 freshen up and upgrade 👍🏻👍🏻

Having had one of these engines in my 1965 Vette back in the day I'll say it is a mighty fine engine just stock. many high revs one time missing a gear that broke some piston rings but this engine is one of chevys finest in my opinion. After 80,000 miles the tear down showed no damage or even substantial wear to the bottom end (crank). They had two bolt main bearings but I have never seen or heard of damaged bottom ends on stock engines in spite of numerous wild RPMs. The harmonics are another issue but they held together well,

Sbc 400.. i grab them now when ever I find them..

As much as I love the Z28 DZ302 packaged Camaro, the 327 fuelie is king of the small blocks.

my favorite is the 327, my buddy has his grandpa's 56 f100 with a 327 swapped in, decent cam, love that truck. its a dull green with a mustang 2 front end/disk brakes. i got a 350 in my corvette but the 327 is just unique i love the sound. love the videos richard!! truly the holy grail for gearheads

Back when I was young , I had a built by me 350 S.B.C. that kicked butt on the streets of Hemet , CA. My favorite .

I have(2)327s, one 1965 and a 1967 I love this motor above all.

Love your video on the 327 I have a 327 in my cj5 jeep and it runs great I love this engine I also love the 302 power plant I've built more ford power plants than chevy but I am really impressed in how this performed in my jeep on the trail

Just love that 327. I had one in a 68 vette. Carter AFB mild cam and hooked headers/sidepipes. That little 327 was a beauty. Plenty of power and those pipes would just sing !

Excellent info!! It's crazy how much HP you got out of this 327! Technology is amazing! So going back to the 70s, my engine was a 275 horse rated 10:1 compression spec in a 67 Chevelle. I installed a Z28 dual plane intake, shaved the 1.94/1.50 heads 35 thousands, installed a L79 cam, ran long tube headers with a measly Holly 600 vacuum secondaries carb. Ignition was pretty much stock other than different springs. I never dynoed it but the best I could run in the 1/4 mile was a 13.91/96 mph. I know I needed a bigger carb ... I'm guessing I could have been in the mid to lower 13s pretty easy. Cool video as I thought the 327 was a great engine overall!

Always liked the 327 over the 350. The shorter stroke made it rev quicker. I would beat big blocks with a 12.:1 327, 140 off road Z-28 cam with dual quad tunnel ram and 4.56 gears. So much fun! Still have 327s in my stock Corvettes.

WOW! So cool to see my old engine in your video. in 1966 I drove a 1964 Corvette with a 365 HP 327 4 speed close ratio and 3.73 rear gear Convertible, triple white, both tops. Yeah it would burn rubber, tires were about 4 inches wide. And the speedo said it would get up to 140 flat out for miles. The front end barely on the ground too! Zero torque below 3,000 RPM. I had a MGC pull away at a red light when i had already eased into 2nd gear when he decided to showoff. I nail the gas in 2nd, big burp slow pull to 3,500 then i flew by on the way to 6,500 RPM but it was scary for a minute. I ended up with headers but finally pulled the 327 and sold it BAD ! Had several Rats for a few years but none were reliable even the L88 which was scary loud would over heat at a red light. Finally found a real Z28 302 and put it in there. Wow back to light wieght Mouse and grabbing R's to 7,000 was fun. Really cool to see the mods and how much the mouse gained. But today after having a 98 Vette LS1 Supercharges, a 2007 Z06 LS7 and now a 2014 C7 LT1 I know the LS is a better base motor. LQ a good street block. But if I had a Mouse to build I would want 4 bolt mains, And i think that pushes us into 350 type blocks. My 81 Vette was updated to a 93 Vette LT1 and Vortech SC with a great sleeper result. So I would go back to something like that for fun low bucks raise hell Mouse. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Had a older 327 in my 70 Chevelle SS. Don't remember thinking it needed more power! It was more than a 16 y/o could handle anyway. Car only lasted 3 months before I wrecked it. But wore out 12 tires in that time. Only small block I've driven since that had that much power was a stroked 383.

What a Great video, thanks for doing a 327 you are freaking Awsome.....

i am about to build almost the same motor. currently running a 327 with camel hump heads making about 350 hp. going to afr heads steel crank and solid roller cam. this will be my daily driver. in a 1969 Nova. thanks for all your video's. extremely helpful.

400, can’t beat the torque. 👍🏻

very nice video and I have a soft spot for the ol 327’s which were born in ‘62. Still make great power and sound MUCH better than the LS series engines do though making less power with similar mods.

would like to say i am building a 327 and it has become almost cost prohibitive with new parts at this time. 350 makes more since if you want a smaller sbc with good power. 2 sentimental reasons for going this way. thanks to Richard for this because many car guys are not only practical in there builds.

good stuff for an old Chevy motor head from the old days- thank you

Mouse got fed some real cheese right there, flexed it's muscles.

Ran a built 327, 522 lift Crane Hyd Cam, Venolia 12.5/1 pistons, 202 intake camel hump heads and Hooker headers, muncie 4 speed in my 55 Chevy, great combo, great time

I have a soft spot for the 305 and you can usually get them free to cheap because nobody wants them but I showed plenty of cars both other V8s and Turbo 4 cylinders my taillights pretty often with mine. Always wanted a 400 but they're so hard to find

I grew up in the 60s and 70s, with 10000 rpm gasses, so 283, 302 are probably my favorite small blocks but then again I've had alot of good running 350s

My old 327 combo made 311hp at the wheels through a 700R4 and 12 bolt with 4:10s. Flat top pistons, fuelie heads ported and polished, port matched Holley Street Dominator single plane intake, Comp 280S solid flat tappet.

Nothing screams like the unbelievable Super stock 283 inch motor ..

My 64 Impala had a 283 that was rebuilt by a circle track stock car racer.... Looked all factory/ram horns except a Hei, Weiand Xcelerator intake & Holly 600 carb..... That little guy kicked ass for what it was !!!

I had a friend that had a built 327, back in the day. It rev'd so high that it would throw off the fan belt. Fan belt sollution was deep V pulley. He had it built to a "recepe" from Popular Hodrodding. I remember going with him to the junkyards looking for certain desireable block numbers. Also looked for the"2.02" valved heads.

This is an excellent video that proves that the power is in the heads! More flow, more torque, more power. Make those same changes to a small block Mopar (318 .030 323) except add a Hughes Engines cam and you'd produce MORE than the Chevy equivalent. The larger diameter tappet allows for a higher lift for any given duration and that would equate to more torque.

The 327 was Grumpy Jenkins favorite small block. I'll defer to him. From the factory, the 400 never got a high performance version, but every NASCAR small block eventually was built from a destroked 400.

It's difficult not to go on about the virtue's of a Big Block. I raced both the small and big block in my 66 chev. Both were fun and fast.

The 400 small block is my fav.

I have a 1963 Split Window 327 cid Fuel injected 360 hp 4 speed. It has the Duntov cam, Duntov X heads. I use a PLX wide and O2 air fuel meter to adjust the fuel injection. I’ve also replaced the ignition with a Pertronix setup. Runs and drives great!

I couldn't tell you exactly why, but there's a certain allure to a 327 to me. I just love that engine, especially with the old school style look with smooth valve covers, oil spout in the intake, orange block and heads, etc... I hope to build one for my 82 c10 and make a modernized internal set up with holley sniper efi one of these days.

The DZ 302 is legendary and I believe if you dnyo it would match that 375 hp with the crossram system but drivability is lacking. 327 was always my favorite engine since it was very responsive to revving and had drivability. Was always a little more reliable than a 350 even though the 350 eventually became the go to crate engine.

This gives me a good idea of where my uncles 13:1 compression 327 is sitting! These old small blocks are no joke! Put some head studs on your l76 and throw some boost at it Richard!

I love these ol 327 I have one in my 70 c/10 4:11 rear end an Holley carb

Thank you for this video much needed 💯😍

I had two 327/365 Corvette roadsters and loved the light nimble screamers. Later I had a 427/425 roadster and a 435/427 roadster--both absolutely wicked fast. My favorite though, was always the 327/365 car, it was better balanced and would pass my buddies 427/390 Corvette like he was standing still.

I love these kind of tests ! They really tell us what works and what doesn't .

Hey Rich, I would have loved to see what the 30/30 and the aluminum heads made. More importantly, the shop is doing a 62' "NASCAR" restorod build and we're going to use your 327 build specs on our 327. It needed to be streetable and fun. This looks perfect! BTW, gasoline in the 60's offered more BTUs than today's EPA restricted fuel. That's probably why your L79 build up short of the 365hp. When the car is done, we'll mention your great work here. Thanks Rich!! ThirdPedal

Cool this to see that someone else is doing this type of engine too! So i have early (2.0") journal version of 327.. It's in the machine shop atm but i'm sure i'll be getting it home soon..

mid 60's 327, 0.060, 11.1, comp cam, gasket matched camel humps, double bee hive springs, chromolly push rods, 2.02 1.60 valves, M 22 4 speed 69 Z car, alum hi rise 750 double pumper, Mallory dual point, Mallory Hi out put coil, hi volume oil pump, hi volume mech fuel pump, Hayes Super clutch, and all in 70 C10 LB camper special. W/O camper of course And worse than anything, was the bias tires of the day, add in no A/C in Texas, between the sweat running in your eyes, and no traction during the daylight hours, the Bastards took Ethel away from us back then too... Not too mention, raised the price of gas for not having to add lead to the mix, and made long lines at the self serve gas stations. Killed your heads slowly with the lack of lead, if you couldn't afford, are find lead additive to dose unleaded gas with, because it took harden valve train to endure the nasty stuff for too long if you hammered on em too hard daily. Only good things were, cops couldn't keep up with a Pinto, with two bad cylinders, and typically, they just threaten you to not run off again, when they caught you not paying attention later on.

I have a real dz302 from a 69 camaro and man...by far my favorite small block ever...built a performance version from a 327 with a 283 crank and its a buzz saw

Nice. Always wanted one as a blue collar kid.

I never got to build a 327 for Max power but I did come close one time with a dirt modified. It was 14 to1 circle roller Cam and dart iron heads. Although it only had a 850 with a single plane intake, that 331 would scream! Never Dyno the thing, just won races.

I did one of these for my 65 chevelle, 327, .070 0ver, pink rods, forged crank. Went with a Lunati retro roller cam with dart SHP heads 200 flow rate, 64 cc chambers, Keith Black dome pistons, and a dart air gap dual plain intake topped with a holley 650 DP . I was hoping to get 400 HP out of it but I see I'm close to your test. Looking to drop it in the car soon and see how it all works together. I would be happy with anything close to your test and thanks for a great Vid as usual. Always love your tests .

What i loved about it because I have one is they love the higher rpm

My favorite small block right now is the 307 because it's what I have in my 1970 C15.

I like to make an engine look stock however, what's inside makes a big difference, I took a 400 sbc, bored it .060, put in flat tops with a crane fireball cam with a .450 lift and 1 3/4" headers. Nothing exotic but a lot of fun with a minimum investment, I used a stock quadrajet carb with a brass float, just keeping things simple. I really enjoyed your channel and I hope to see more of your videos, I'm now subbed, left a thumbs up, and a tap on the bell. You have a great day.

And I was happy to make 330 horse 327 small valve closed chamber heads , to see this I new it was there back in my day aluminum head tech, was black magic then

I am in the process of building the 327 large journal but my favorite small block Chevy is the small block 400