"sold by the millions in the wrong application" I'd certainly say so. Years ago, I straightened out a build that a girl had done on a 350 in a 70's corvette. What they did was ridiculous, it had dome top pistons, with some ridiculously high lift cam, and compression like 12:1 ? It's been too long to remember precisely. It had roller rockers and they did not even pin those, the thing was a disaster that I don't think could run on regular gas. It had a Holley 750 double pumper ! This thing was sending black soot out like a diesel engine ! It had the headers and side pipes.
I took the engine out, had it re-worked and everything toned down to something manageable, by someone who was doing my friends drag race car engines. I think we jetted the carb down as well. I put a hot ignition system into it as well. I took some doing to get it tuned right, once done it ran very nicely, probably in the 300 HP range, and was reliable. I had 80 some odd hours into this thing, cleaned and painted the frame, replaced every U-Joint, made sure all the grease fittings aligned so all were accessible at one time. I had the trans done by one of the best old school guys around. What a project, when done, she was a lot happier with it, it ran right, had plenty of punch when you hit it, and was not the ridiculous poorly done overkill build, which also took her to the cleaners. It would have come apart there is no doubt. I had just done a 350 replacement in my K10 pick-up, stock build, then did this one right after it. Small block chevy engines were always fun !
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