Why everyone is putting Chevy's in the off brands!

[307 Regal]

Alright, here comes $0.02 from the rookie.
Part 1 - Availability
small block chevys are like *ssh*les. everyone's got one, and most of them work just fine. lol
i think it's because there are just so many more places to get the parts "new", which is where the price comes in.
if more people made buick/olds/pontiac parts i'm sure you'd see more of them in cars.
Timmy walks into the speed shop:
"Gee mister, i sure would like to buy this Rocket 350 from you, but it sure is expensive.."
shop owner: "Well where else you gonna get it kid? (mwahahaha)"
Timmy goes home with a small block chevy.
In a perfect world, Oldsmobile and Pontiac would still be around and a 455 from either company would cost the same as a 454.

Part 2 - Use what you like
If i had come across the white 84 Monte Carlo SS of my dreams, then i would be sticking up for the chevys, but then my regal came along with its Olds 307 (the engine brand/body brand dilemma that no one talks about lol). Although sexy as hell, it is equally slow and gets smoked by my brother's 5.0 Sprint on a daily basis. my first thought was: "well it looks like its tree-fity time", but i soon found out that i just have a thing for Oldsmobiles, so now i can't get the idea of a bigger Olds engine for my Buick out of my head. it would be cool to have a buick v8 in there, but i love my olds motor for what it is, and i know there are plenty of small block chevy guys who think the same thing about their own engines.

Part 3 - "Always in moderation."
This whole deal i just like our good friend, the '69 Camaro.
The '69 Camaro is a bad-*ss car, but when you just keep seeing them, over and over and over, they really lose appeal.

alright, i'm done.. lol

 

[pontiacgp]

Let's stay on topic fellas. With all due respect Buick252, your two posts are very hard to decipher.

he might not understand that so i wrote it in his language and i hope you don't mind lets stay on topic fellas with all due respect buick252 yours posts are hard to decipher

 

[buick252]

anyway like i been say before you see a ford chevy dodge all the time on tv.But when they show a B.O.P it gets little to no respect at all thats what i was saying in my lost post. Like i been saying everybody has a chevy i mean come on if you like chevy cool dont use our cars for your chevy because god knows if we use chevy cars for our B.O.P motor we will get look at like we are speaking a different lanuage. i hope everybody is happy iam using a period

 

[Silent viewer]

I disagree with that

 

[pontiacgp]

I have a Grand Prix and the last time Pontiac used a Pontiac engine was in 1981 and that was in a Firebird with a 301. That was the last year Pontiac made engines. G bodies never has a Pontiac engine plant in them so "if we use chevy cars for our B.O.P motor we will get look at like we are speaking a different language" that doesn't apply to a G body Pontiac...

 

[Silent viewer]

since the like the 70s i dont know how it could be a issue to use any gm power plant in and gm car, i have no issue seeing a chevy in anything and i also have so issues seeing a b-o-p in a chevy. everyone has the motor we like and we use it just like everyone wants a certain color on their car. there are pros and cons to all the motors and g bodies for that matter, i know chevy motors far better then the b-o-p but i personally like the cutlass and regals over a monte or malibu. where i am from the chevy engines are the ones getting looked down on not the b-o-p

 

[pontiacgp]

I wish GM had left the different divisions to create their own engines. If you look back at Pontiacs engines you'll find inovative ideas like reverse cooling that is being in the new breed of chevy engines. If I had my choice of Pontiac engine to run in my GP it'd be the never released to the public 303 from 1969.

 

[Silent viewer]

well if we are gonna get into wish lists for gm...... they had tuned port injected 350s, rear disc brakes and all sorts of other stuff they could have been doing from at least 85 on on g bodies. heck i wish the g body line never ended! but all of that is history now. i think the cost of developement and research and the need for fuel econly and low emissions can be blamed for gm doing what they did. it is a heck of allot easier to develope 1 motor line verses multiple lines.

 

[cadiac]

Once a guy was at the house with his wife, -I referred to my GP/Cad 500 as the baby Coupe Deville, -she went around the side looking all over for that Cadillac. Finally came back and said she didn't see it. We had been talking all along about putting 472/500's in stuff other than Cad's. LOL By the way I do speak a differnt language, -BIG C.I.D.

 

[1evilregal]

I don't see why you purists think that everyone who puts a sbc or bbc in anything but a chevy, should be labeled as idiots... GM made them, and the bodies that we're putting them in..... granted, If I could've swung a buick small block, that's what I would've put in it... as it was, I got the motor in a truck for truck trade, and was intent on keeping it in there until I started driving it, and scared the crap out of me!(no wonder the guy I traded for it didn't want the truck either). basically the motor was free, and should have better manners in the regal... the motor is already built, modified, and all machine work has been done. All I've done to it has been re-sealing the enitre engine and freshening it up with new main bearings, high volume oil pump, and paint... so basically I have a 327 that is ready to go, 350 est flywheel hp, and will spin 10k rpm(it's been there more than once) for less than $100.... still wonder why I have a sbc? easy, it's expensive around here to find a buick 350 and trans to go along with it for less than a grand(which I don't have....).

I don't have a problem with you purists, as it's nice to see some original cars, but please,please, quit ramming your opinions down my throat .... that's the problem I have do have with you purists....

my case is closed, you may continue to hate me, if you so desire....

Darin
proud owner of a sbc powered buick 😀