Please help me

[CHRIS.O]

I'll again say that the 2004r is your best bet. Every one of them I have seen has been dual bolt pattern but I have heard some are not. For a true 400-500 horsepower your gonna be rebuilding it to handle that power if your gonna have a spirited right foot. I imagine if your building a small block like that then your gonna have a spirited right foot haha.

 

[monte ss496]

Oldsmobile makes excellent engines, but sbcs only get so much attention because of their MASSIVE amount of aftermarket support.

there is a reason why they made millions of chevy engines and not as many olds engines! think about it!

 

[cutlass79]

the th200r4 came with 2 dif bolt pattern the chevy bolt pattern and the buick pontiac in olds bolt pattern. i have one of each sittin im my garage.one came form the stock buick 3.8 6v that came stock in my cutlass and one that was bolted to a 350 out of a monte.if u want a th200r4 to bolt to a sbc just find one with the chevy bolt pattern.im running a th400 with a shift kit now and i like it better then a stock th200r4

 

[beermonkey9417]

200 4r has 2 bolt patterns, chevy with bop(dual pattern), and also just a bop pattern. i got mine for 85 bucks and spent 400 rebuilding it by myself. yay!
*edit*
(chevy>olds, but im biased

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[Rocket]

Oldsmobile makes excellent engines, but sbcs only get so much attention because of their MASSIVE amount of aftermarket support.

there is a reason why they made millions of chevy engines and not as many olds engines! think about it!

a higher rate of replacement parts sales due to failure

 

[-83MONTESS-]

there is a reason why they made millions of chevy engines and not as many olds engines! think about it!

This is the most illogical statement I have heard in awhile.

 

[G-Body_Vet]

Here's what the machinist working on my Pontiac 455 had to say about Olds and Chevy. He said GM picked the wrong engine to go corporate with in the late 70's, partly because the Vette crowd wouldn't want an Olds engine in it :lol: Had GM progressed with the BOP stuff they'd be light years ahead too.

He also says Olds has superior machining and better metallurgy than Chevy. He said the Chevy blocks usually have way more core shift than any other GM engine. We're talking the 1st gen blocks though. The LSx engines are a different animal though. I don't really consider those a Chevy engine anyway, it's a corporate block.

I was a Chevy man at one time myself. After venturing off into the BOP stuff it became more interesting although the parts cost a little more. IMO, the BOP stuff is easier to work on anyway (plugs above the manifolds for instance!). SBC's are good for beginners and budgets though. However, If I drove a bowtie I'd keep one in it.

 

[monte ss496]

there is a reason why they made millions of chevy engines and not as many olds engines! think about it!

This is the most illogical statement I have heard in awhile.

okay spock! i'm not ragging on olds engines! but you cant argue with the success of the sbc! its been in production since 1955 ! nuff said!

 

[monte ss496]

Oldsmobile makes excellent engines, but sbcs only get so much attention because of their MASSIVE amount of aftermarket support.

there is a reason why they made millions of chevy engines and not as many olds engines! think about it!

a higher rate of replacement parts sales due to failure

it's really amusing to me that the fastest car in this guys sig has a 383 small block chevy in it! yet the man is ragging on chevy's! listen guys i've had a bunch of olds powered cars and they were nice, never had a complaint

 

[Rocket]

I'm not raggin' on Chev, happen to like them alot...but the fastest car with the very mild 383 is in a 2450lb car, the 2 Olds' are 3375lb(455) & 3650(350)