Automotive WI: Chevy Corvette bombs

The Cads were lighter than other V8s, IIRC. Hence the Studillacs & Fordillacs & others.

Cadillac built one of the first powerful V8s, and then Chevrolet created the best power to weight V8 going, stealing from Cadillac the heart of performance. Now I had a 1973 Coupe Deville with 472, it could move good for a landward aircraft carrier, and one could transplant that into something of lesser tonnage, but a 327 likely gets you there on way less pounds in the nose.
 
Cadillac built one of the first powerful V8s, and then Chevrolet created the best power to weight V8 going, stealing from Cadillac the heart of performance.
One of the first thinwall cast blocks, around 200 pounds lighter, but was 265cid at first, when the Caddy was 331

That family Caddy Motors looks better in a hotrod
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for some period speed parts. Putting SBCs in everything was a '60s thing
 
Cadillac built one of the first powerful V8s, and then Chevrolet created the best power to weight V8 going, stealing from Cadillac the heart of performance. Now I had a 1973 Coupe Deville with 472, it could move good for a landward aircraft carrier, and one could transplant that into something of lesser tonnage, but a 327 likely gets you there on way less pounds in the nose.
IIRC, the '70s Cads were, in fact, lighter than the (smaller-CID) SBCs. The late '50s & early '60s Cads were beyond question lighter than the boat anchor Nailheads & Rockets.

In the '70s, the lightest thing around, except for the aluminum Buicks & Oldses (& Rover clones), were the Buicks: the 425 & 455 were lighter than the Chevy 400s, & the 350 Buick easily lighter than the 327 & 350 Chevy. (IIRC, the 350 Buick was less than the 283.)

Either way, that 500 Cad in a Malibu/clone (let alone a Nova!) would blow away just about anything, except (maybe) a 455 Buick-engined version--&, IIRC, the 455 wouldn't always fit between the shock towers; the Cad would drop in place of a 350 SBC. (The 455 had more torque than anything much short of a railway locomotive...:eek: The 500 was pretty close.)

Me, I'd have punched out a 215 Buick to 305 & stuffed it in a Morris Minor.;)

All of which is getting way, way off topic...
 
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