While watching Mecum Auction on the Motor Trend Channel they often mention that the Chevy 383 stroker engine is obtained by putting a 400 small block crank (with a 3.75 inch stroke) into a 350 block (which has a 4.001 inch bore), which results a displacement of 383 CI. However, I did the math and a…

People seem to be even crazier bidding when there’s live cameras on them, hard to forget the guy who jumped into the bidding on a Bugatti Veyron at Barret-Jackson Vegas years ago who thought he was helping the bid and had a deer in headlights look when he won. Total panic when they asked him how he …

Thanks. I’ve never heard them say that the 400 crank went into a 350 block with a .030 overbore, but they may have. Anyway, glad to know my math skills haven’t totally deteriorated (at least so far). Originally, I had done the math and figured out that with a 4.00 in. bore you’d need a 3.81 in. s…

All of this does nothing to explain why a 396 Chevy actually displaced 402. :wink:

[image] oldtimer-11: All of this does nothing to explain why a 396 Chevy actually displaced 402. It shouldn’t, the two are not related. The bore of the 396 was increased to 4.13 " for emissions reasons.

One reason the Chevy was listed as a 396 GM, at that time, limited their ‘muscle cars’ to 400 CI. Why Chevy called it a 396 instead of a 400 I don’t know, perhaps because Pontiac had a 400. Buick liked to put the torque rating on their air cleaner housing rather than HP rating, each devision had …

There were lots of fudging of displacements from every manufacturer. [image] 5 famous V-8s whose displacements stretched the truth | Hagerty Media We know that the '60s were full of horsepower hijinks, but did you know that manufacturers sometimes fibbed about the size of their engines? …

[image] Mustangman: Then actually try it sometime. It can be pretty addicrive at times to watch. It’s very additive. This isn’t like your local auction where you can bid on 200 MiniVans. While there are some everyday vehicles there…most are classics and collectables. Many completely restored …

[image] MikeInNH: I like seeing many of the older vehicles that have been completely restored I do as well. Many of which had far more money spent on the restoration than the car’s selling price. This is especially true of those less desirable cars - still great cars - but less desired by th…

And on top of that, before the auction you can go to the Mecum website and see all the cars that will be up for auction. Typically, the lower end cars will go on the block on the first day or two of the sale, with the more expensive cars saved for the weekend, especially the final day. What this m…

[image] Mustangman: It can be pretty addicrive at times to watch. It is. I particularly like it when one of the commentators makes a small mistake, but then the hordes of automotive super-nerds who watch these things get pretty vocal about something trivial and the commentators sheepishly cor…

Curious about displacement

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Mustangman May 19, 2021, 12:09pm 11

There were lots of fudging of displacements from every manufacturer.

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