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#25095 01/12/2002 5:38 AM | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 187 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 187 | Greetings,
What's the word on the street regarding the mid 1960's vintage 366 V-8 engines? Good motors? Strong with lots of life with proper care or dead after 50k miles? Overhaul parts readily available? Any feedback would be appreciated!!
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#25096 01/12/2002 2:56 PM | Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 1,586 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 1,586 | Search down through the posts in the "Lounge" there is a post I started on "Best gas truck engine".Quite a few different opinions there.Have fun! | | |
#25097 01/12/2002 3:35 PM | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 187 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 187 | Tony,
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I had already done the search and found your post, but as I read it appeared to become a [censored] session rather than a thread with technical information, specs and real world data about the engine.
Just trying to stimulate some of that...
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#25098 01/13/2002 5:05 AM | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 146 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 146 | In one of the replies about the 366, we can realize that lack of proper mainteance was the biggest issue of all, because if You left an engine runnunig so bad, misfiring to the point of spiting a rod thru the block, nothing else can be said.
On the other hand, the 366 is just a rat ayway, all others are so well loved, why just this one would be the worst engine in town? may eat cams as all other bigblock chevies, may have the flow in the head limited by the small bore, and may have some lubrication troubles in the distributor, but I'd not say it's a piece of junk. Just my 0,02.
Alexandre Garcia
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#25099 01/14/2002 5:16 AM | Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 10 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 10 | I used to drive a farm truck with a 366 in it. Actally a couple of our trucks had them. The would work circles around the 350 chevy's the other trucks had. More power and better fuel economy to boot. These trucks were worked hard for 4-5 weeks a year and then sat alot. We had little trouble with them. Certainly less than the small block engines. | | |
#25100 01/17/2002 1:11 PM | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 146 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 146 | Both the small and big block ocassionally shares the same rod/stroke ratio, 1,63, which may not put anyone of them in advantage from this point, but the crank is much thicker and also the 366 has a much bigger bearing surface for about the same displacement. For a light truck I'd opt for the 366 over the 350 any time. Well, being a sick guy like I'm I'd really opt for something a li'l
bit bigger. Maybe a 454. But the fact that there was a 637V8 truck engine, I'd end up with the 637. If I were in U.S., of course.
Alexandre Garcia
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