Never mind the fact that California's central valley is one of the most important farming regions in the USA........Plum Brandy? would that be like Slivovitz? Are there any other big distillers of Tennessee Whiskey besides Dickel and Jack Daniels,Tenn. whiskey never seemed to catch on the way Kentucky's Bourbon did.
The 6.2 was underpowered for sure,but they sold a lot of them and i know of many people who were very happy with them,especially in Blazers and other 1/2 ton applications,so it should hardly be considered a failure....Im not a farmer,or a hippie if that really matters,and among other things part of my questioning a pivot engine comes from the fact that many of your posts sounded so irrational,and disjointed,that frequently i really didnt even know what you were trying to convey.....

 

Bob,........He has got to be Shipboy in disguise!....maybe we should pose a few "test" questions?

 

Bob, I can tell you what a pivot is but unfortunately I can't tell what the hell this guy is talking about 101% of the time...

 

Oh,well! He certainly picked a great moniker if he wanted to stir controversy.......For all i know he may Frequent Chevy sites,and with his strong feelings for the 400SBC,he may be equally popular there.....
It was supposed to a be a work on the Chevy day for me,but after looking at Craigslist,i drove down to San Francisco,and im know the proud owner of a mid 50's T90 3spd/Dana 18/Ramsey dual output PTO,along with a rear driveshaft and the PTO driveshaft,got it cheap! not sure what for,but it was a good enough deal i couldnt pass it up!

 

I took "redneck 101" and graduated with a masters in it, and I cant make heads or tails of most of his posts.

 

If pivot means the same thing here in Wisconsin as it does in flatland, its the common term for an irrigation system that basicly drives in a circle around a "pivot". Most of these systems use electricity from the grid but a few, especially in more remote areas, use large diesels or gas motors to run generators. If you've been to the other engines forums on this site you'll note that many of the 540ci Ford superduty gassers that are still in service run these generators. We still have one diesel powered generator on the farm here, I believe its a M211 or M212 Cummins IIRC. Non turbo too, can you imagine what a naturally aspirated 700+ cubic inch diesel sounds like along the side of a road running a glorified sprinkler system!!

 

In that Application,i cant imagine a high revving,performance engine like a Chevy 350 LT1 being very suitable,but im only a coast bound Hippie! Between spending a fair amount of time up in the mountains,owning a lot of old trucks,working in both the fishing and the gun industries,im typically able to converse "redneck" okay,but 6.6 has managed to stump me repeatedly......

 

Since the only thing we farm up here are trees, I guess I am a ignorant, coast bound, hippie too.........The only "pivot" a 400SBC does that I have heard of is when it is lifted out of the engine bay, and pivoted into the scrap pile.

 

Shockingly enough, 6.6liter was right about the 2-bolt vs 4-bolt chevy 400. The 2-bolt blocks ARE stronger. It is best to find a 2-bolt chevy 400 block, and have it machined for Splayed 4 bolt caps (i've heard this will hold to 600-700hp, not bad!!).

A good character question: If you come across an A$$ who thinks they know everything about engines, ask them which 400 sbc block is better. Typically the fakes reply "the 4-bolt duh."

And on another note; the reason the 400's got such a bad reputation about overheating typically was NOT the engine's fault. Any set of heads for a small block chevy would bolt up to the 400 (read my previous post). BUT this was the WRONG thing to do. 400's needed to have "steam holes" drilled in the heads (unoriginal-400 heads that is)....

Most guys building engines DID NOT know what they were doing, so they used heads that weren't drilled, resulting in the overheating problem, which was blamed on the engine, when it was the fault of the stupid engine builder himself. This probably had a good deal to contribute to the reputation of the 400.

By NO means am i favoring the 400 or 6.6liter in this post, facts are FACTS!

JT


Oh ya and 6.6liter, proof-read your posts, i mean it can't be that bad to read over it again for 20 seconds. Especially if you're going to bash other users about their posts.

 

some one finnally sees the light.....oh and sorry bout the hippie stuff but coasties really **** me the hell off and about the plum brandy you are exactly right....and the tenn stuff is um..lets say a private guy we have 7 pivots running a assorment of engines from 318-350's and a few case international cummins ....so accually i do need that LT-1 to run the new pivot where gonna put up or we gonna have some dried up crops.....and thats why i mentioned quite some time earlier if any one has knowledge of a 440 cause i found one in the back of the shed and would like to re-build it and either make it a irigation engine or pop it into the old power wagon and i am registered only on 1 chevy forums and i have only posted once there.....seem to me like a bunch of rich spoiled brats who aint never had a whopping them engines may seem worthless or nothing more then "glorified sprinklers" but atleast if i blow a engine in a truck up then ill have something i can pull off the pivot during fall/winter pop in the truck and re-build something else to put onto the pivot and that central valley is pretty important but i think we farm more in 9 counties here in nebraska then the valley could ever wish to produce

 

Dont label all of us "coasties" one way,keep in mind i didnt and wont take shots at people in Nebraska or anywhere else just because of where they live.........Here,we do have a lot of agriculture,and it generates a lof of food,and money too! My Town of Petaluma was at one time the egg capital of the US,we have a lot of Agriculture in this and several other adjoining counties,our wine grape growing alone is a huge business.....as far as your state,and mine,we both are important agriculturally,and we both have plenty of good people,bad too.....

 

I merely coined them as "glorified sprinklers" for the not-so educated farm wise. Its pretty uncommon for a farm to run a gas or diesel generator around here anymore. I guess electricity has come down in price and or fuel for the petro generators is too expensive. As for what Bob said earlier about a small block not being the best motor for that application, if the motor in question has enough power to run the generator it'll work. I wouldn't be suprised if you told me that someone runs an older generator with 240 straight six. The main reason for wanting a diesel in that particular app is fuel economy, plain and simple. The gasser, no matter which gasser it is BBF or SBC, is gonna chugga lug its way through quite a few gallons before that 80 is watered. By the way 6.6, much better job on the spelling, I understood the majority of that, the punctuation could still use a little work. And FWIW, present company excluded, coasties **** me off too!

 

scrap em my way...the '406' racing class has scoured my state of all 400 blocks...I can get $600 for a bare untouched junkyard block sight unseen. $2000G for one cleaned and honed

 

well gents good too know we are all on fair terms and yes the fuel economy is a killer....good thing nebraska is the least(or one of) the least affected states economicly but it still has hit us although gas prices have been good.....but yah the cummins we run are case international 4 bangers and we put a straight 6 out in the boonies by the crick cause its reliable and quad we DO have a 400 running a very small pivot but its a junky rusted 4 bolt and is probly ready to blow a piston or two id gladly send it your way if i didnt want it for spare parts and i currently dont have another engine ready to replace it other then that LT-1 which im trying not to let it turn into a pivot engine but if the time arises or the need comes then well shes gotta go do her duty of getting wet in the corn anyways big day of working pipe and checking engines toamrrow...nighty nights

 

Well do you?