Re: Did Chevy consider Packard V8 BB Design?
Posted by Eric Boyle On 2009/2/22 0:11:07
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The 440 owes it's lineage to the 350,361, of 1958, which are "low blocks", "B" engine, and the 413 of 1959, which was a raised block, or "RB" engine. When Chrysler wanted to increase stroke, they just added it to the deck surface of the block.
Of all the intake manifolds I've come across over the years, Big block Chrysler is the closest I've come to find to fitting the Packard V8. The only real problem in getting one to fit a Packard is the angle on the heads where the intake bolts. On a Packard it's a perfect 90 degrees, on a Mopar engine, it's more like 72 degrees.
The big block Chevy got it's valve arrangement directly from the old Polysphere 270 that came out in the 1955 Plymouth. I've yet to see an original idea to come out of GM, other than how to NOT run a company, but this I feel they stole from Packard. For example, a Polysphere Mopar head:
And a BB Chevy head:
Chrysler touted the 440 "wedge" many years later as though it was a proprietary design.
The 440 owes it's lineage to the 350,361, of 1958, which are "low blocks", "B" engine, and the 413 of 1959, which was a raised block, or "RB" engine. When Chrysler wanted to increase stroke, they just added it to the deck surface of the block.
Of all the intake manifolds I've come across over the years, Big block Chrysler is the closest I've come to find to fitting the Packard V8. The only real problem in getting one to fit a Packard is the angle on the heads where the intake bolts. On a Packard it's a perfect 90 degrees, on a Mopar engine, it's more like 72 degrees.
The big block Chevy got it's valve arrangement directly from the old Polysphere 270 that came out in the 1955 Plymouth. I've yet to see an original idea to come out of GM, other than how to NOT run a company, but this I feel they stole from Packard. For example, a Polysphere Mopar head:
And a BB Chevy head:
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