Barnyard Engineering

[Gary Mitchell]

I was reading one of your replies and having seen your Avatar I finally got curious about what it says so I expanded the screen and what I saw brought a situation I once experienced......found it amusing but true:

Back in the early '70's my family was growing and the Chevy Bel Air 4 door just wasn't cutting it. I decided I needed a station wagon and I liked Chevrolets at the time so I went to a Dallas Chevy dealer to trade in and get a station wagon. The lot had 3 '71 Chevy fake woody wagons on the lot. The engine was labeled a 400 HP, big block V8 (348 cu. in. upgrade) with a Quadrajet four barrel carb and a 3 speed hydromatic. I drove all 3 trying to find one that ran right but none of them did but I had to have a Chevy wagon so I bought the best running one.

After awhile I stood all the detuning I could stand ( thank you US govt.) so I took the car back to the dealer's service dept figuring they knew what I didn't about how to get it to run right. The mechanic decided that he knew the problem with them (experienced on detuning to meet emission standards) so he went after the Quadrajet.....(which was a piece of crap...Fords Holly 650 CFM Double Pumper would perform circles around them). Since I usually do my own work on things, I had some questions concerning that car so that I could better understand it. I got part way into the first question and the guy put his shop towel down, his open end wrench down, pulled up a stool right in front of me, looked me right in the eye and said what do you want to know?????? The shop charged by the hour as usual, and I got the message right off.....he is tired of customers asking him stupid (to him) questions so he developed a way to prevent it. I retracted the question and he got up and went back to work.....after he finished it still didn't run right. I can't believe I kept that piece of crap as long as I did.

I'm confused. They stopped putting 348s in cars in 61, trucks 64??? gm

 

[jddrawbar]

I'm confused. They stopped putting 348s in cars in 61, trucks 64??? gm

Shouldn't be confused.......just look it up.

 

[Texasmark]

I'm confused. They stopped putting 348s in cars in 61, trucks 64??? gm

I just initially thought that was the upgraded 348....had no idea as to what Chevy was putting in their vehicles, just commenting on what I thought at the time.....1971....had a lot to learn about everything!