Re: 22 Series 327 in a 17 Series Super 8?

Posted by Gene On 2011/8/9 12:07:33

I don't have the Super 8 yet but am in the process of getting it. I already have a good 1950 288 engine setting on a tire but thought that the 327 is closer to the original in power and the 288 might come up short. I would actually rather have the car original but when I consider that I plan to use it to drive and don't really plan to put it in big time car shows the originality only counts to my purist heart. What should really be more important is getting this fine old car back on the road as a testament to the durability and lasting quality of the Packard automobile.
I've got a 36 Chevy and the metal just is not the same quality I've found on the Packard and to find a Packard of the era I've looked for that I can actually afford to put back on the road is something I can't pass up if I can figure out a way to do it. And, it seems, from the Packard literature, that Packard made provisions for just such an "upgrade" in their engines. Gene