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General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: motorhead on September 02 2013, 08:22:31 AM

Title: Further Confirmation Buick Engines Suck (without boost)
Post by: motorhead on September 02 2013, 08:22:31 AM

http://www.powerblocktv.com/episodes/HP2011-13/building-the-other-350-small-block-engine (http://www.powerblocktv.com/episodes/HP2011-13/building-the-other-350-small-block-engine)

350+ cubes, ported heads, big cam, higher compression etc... equals just 300 crank horsepower?

Wow.  That is crap

Title: Re: Further Confirmation Buick Engines Suck (without boost)
Post by: daveismissing on September 02 2013, 09:08:38 PM

'75 had HEI? I thought it started later?

edit> Thanks Mikey: introduced by General Motors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Corporation) around May 1974 on most GM engines.

Title: Re: Further Confirmation Buick Engines Suck (without boost)
Post by: motorhead on September 02 2013, 09:14:04 PM

Quote from: daveismissing on September 02 2013, 09:08:38 PM

'75 had HEI? I thought it started later?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_energy_ignition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_energy_ignition)

Title: Re: Further Confirmation Buick Engines Suck (without boost)
Post by: Charlief1 on September 03 2013, 12:12:38 AM

What wasn't stated in the wiki was GM had some interesting issues with the HEI at first. The vehicles with them would mysteriously die going down the road but start right back up. :hmm  Took them a while to figure out the issue with it since there was no mechanical or electrical reason for it to happen. :chin:  What I was told by an instructor was that the engineers that designed the module used a specific frequency for reliability. Turned out that it was basically the same as an 11 meter radio (cb) and when a trucker would key up near one of the units it would die but start right back up again. :rofl: