I wish my engine was this potent

[2.8 Bird]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddA1MgLex2Q


Chevy 229 V6 making over 500 hp without any force induction. It idles like a V8 too.

According to Sehr Performance it made more HP and TQ than a lot of V8's they've worked on.

[unvmyrs]

Re: I wish my engine was this potent

Pretty cool...

[96blackmaro]

Re: I wish my engine was this potent

I wonder what all the details are on this one. You can easily tell its a 60* V6, but I wonder which block they used. Sounds really damn good too.

[techsan23]

Re: I wish my engine was this potent

They state that it is a stock bottom end. That means they could only increase compression ratio a hair by milling the heads and changing the thickness of the head gasket. I dont see how they could get that much horsepower out of heads, cam and intake manifold. I think it would be next to impossible to achieve that kind of power even if they used extremely high compression oversized pistons and stroked it. 500 hp is alot for a 1980 model stock block v6.

[Opontee]

Re: I wish my engine was this potent

I wonder what all the details are on this one. You can easily tell its a 60* V6, but I wonder which block they used. Sounds really damn good too.

Sorry to inform you, but the 229 is a 90 degree engine. Some came as odd fire, some as semi odd and some as even fire. It's basically a 305 with 2 cylinders missing. If you look at it closer, it has a traditional v-8 bell housing bolt pattern, something the 60 didn't come with.

[SVD]

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Cool...the carb is almost as big as the engine.:)

I always thought it would be cool to mess with an old school V6. I could see a hopped up Buick 231 or Chevy under the hood of a lightweight car. A old Monza/Skylark would do the trick.

[12secondv6]

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Thats cool

[ssms5411]

Re: I wish my engine was this potent

Very nice.

[2.8 Bird]

Re: I wish my engine was this potent

I wonder what all the details are on this one. You can easily tell its a 60* V6, but I wonder which block they used. Sounds really damn good too.

Yeah, it's actually a 90* 229 ci V6 or a 3.8. Chevy didn't want to use the Buick 3.8 V6 out of pride so they made their own V6.

I think Carb has a lot to do this HP increase too along with cam and heads.

I once dial up the carb on my '88 Mitsubishi Mighty Max. I increased the fuel and air ratio or delivery and I squeezed out some more hp, but when I failed smog I have to dail it down again.

[Gutless]

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I suprised its possible. I hang out in the carbed buick V6 club a lot and its been often stated that 250-275 is the MAX that is possible out of a pure NA buick 3.8. Boost helps a ton obviously as 15PSI on a strong NA motor makes 500HP.

I wonder if because its a chev theres just more available? Sounds like the heads are HEAVILY worked over and has a big cam. Compression must be up there too.