Sunday, January 1, 2012

Why are chevy engine builds more popular then mopar and ford engine builds?

Does it have anything to do with how simple chevy engines are? How did chevy become the primary build choice and there transmissions?|||Thats the way it used to be. Now they are about even. The Ford cost and parts have gotten so cheap that there are a lot of fast mustangs out there.|||Chevrolet parts are allot more interchangeable which makes them more in abundance and easier and cheaper to find|||Because of interchangeable between 40 years worth of v8 engines


Price


Supply and demand


Power per dollar.








Old man dirt, you like to point out ones flaws with out looking at others. That's normal from a biased opinion





What about ford's head gasket probs due to not enough head bolts? You build a high compression engine and you blow a head gasket on a ford|||Cheaper horse power.|||Parts availability? Whoever mass produces things the most.|||chevy's are cheaper to rebuild as there are more parts out there for them and a lot of engine parts inter change between engines.|||Because they need it!


Chevrolet engines are built using fewer inspections and looser tolerances at the factory then either Ford or Chrysler engines.


For example, a Chevrolet pink rod is considered a up grade. All a pink rod is one that has been inspected using NDT methods. All of the Ford rods are inspected using these same methods.


So the first thing any serious Chevrolet driver has to do is build the engine to a point that it will pass an inspection at the Ford plant.


The evolution to Chevy engines began in the mid fifties when GM introduced the light weight V8. Until that point in time the choice engines were Ford flat heads. It took GM from 1932 to 1956 to design a reliable V8. Ford countered with the Windsor family. But as in all things Ford, the engine is beefier then the Chevrolet counter part, and many hot rodders preferred the lighter weight engine.


So the bottom line is that Chevrolet engine builds are popular because the engines from the factory are junk!|||First off the parts are much more swappable, from the 283 to the 350 the heads could be simply installed with no modifications needed. second the motors produced good power and torque in stock form so the worked well for racers. third aftermarket support, the majority of aftermarket parts people leaned strongly to Chevy because so many people were racing them. 4th point in drag racing the Chevy power glide trans is called a poor mans drag trans. they held up well to the abuse and when a Vega torque converter was added gave a stall speed boost. at first the racers could and did buy up these converters as fast as they could as they didn't hold up but did what was needed for a few races.


Ford came in next with the 260- 302 blocks. again as in Chevy many parts interchanged. the 351 windsor engine though being in the family group did not interchange with the smaller engines as it was a taller block and its heads were wider for that arrangement as was the intake. this engine never lived up to its competition the 350 Chevy. Ford did make a 302 Boss engine that used the 351 cleavland heads mated to a 302 block. the results were a track winning series of mustangs. when Ford was backing out of racing in the early 70's they dropped the boss engine and made a hi performance 351 cleavland engine. many an engine builders has said the reason for the sucess of the Chevy small block to be the degree the engine cylinders are made to. Fords 289 was a bit narrower "V"


Chrysler products fell short of the other 2 's success because their hot motors arrived late in the game. The small blocks were seldom raced and even more seldom one. the Max wedges were the first successes of Mopar and were pushed into victory lane by engineers at Mopar that were racing fans . Don't forget body styled did play a part in early racing for the fans. when Dodge started the "little old lady from Pasadena campaign" people came to the track to see the "Little red wagon and Hemi under glass" racers on the track.

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