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Re: Farmalls with Caddy engines
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Posted by Mark on February 23, 2006 at 11:40:19 from (172.156.45.235):
In Reply to: Farmalls with Caddy engines posted by Mike M on February 23, 2006 at 10:23:44:
Long stroke torque monsters. You ever driven an older caddy? yeah, they are a sled on launch, but you get that boxcar moving down the highway and kick it in passing gear.....the torque curve is flat as a pancake.....they just keep pulling all the way to the end...it's a feeling I cannot describe. You take a big block Chevy and you get this kick in the @ss and it soon climbs out of it's torque curve and then it's just wind, wind, wind till it peaks out. The Caddy won't do that, it isn't as fast...and a BB Chevy isn't fast compared to a SB Chevy..but it leans into the load and never stops pulling...the old Buick engines were the same way.
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