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From: Ad absurdum per aspera on 16 Feb 2010 14:42
[Bumper stickers reflecting significant ego investment in the theory
that one of the Big Three turned out mass produced products much
better than those of its competitors... and a bit of fuzziness about
spelling, grammar, and punctuation, never mind taste]

> really?  I didn't know that there was a big block S-10...


At least he didn't have window stickers depicting Calvin visiting his
urine upon the other manufacturers' logos, for the benefit of drivers
even less literate than himself. Or did he have those too, and
they're so commonplace you didn't remark upon them?

I don't think GM ever made a small-block V8 S-10 etc., though I'm sure
small-block/700R4 retrofits at various levels of sophistication were
in the works from early days, especially since the engine choices were
"grocery getter" and "nicer grocery getter" for the first few years.

There exist big-block retrofits, but significant cutting and welding
seems to be required for this engine and a tranny and driveline that
can withstand it (not to mention weight distribution, chassis
reinforcement, etc.) I'll further venture that this is mostly done
as part of extensive modification for some drag racing classes.

The platform was used for a couple of factory tuners called the
Syclone and Typhoon (one was a pickup, the other an SUV) but ISTR that
they had turbocharged 4.3 liter V6s, not V8s.

--Joe

--Joe
From: richard on 16 Feb 2010 20:23
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:42:29 -0800 (PST), Ad absurdum per aspera wrote:

> [Bumper stickers reflecting significant ego investment in the theory
> that one of the Big Three turned out mass produced products much
> better than those of its competitors... and a bit of fuzziness about
> spelling, grammar, and punctuation, never mind taste]
>
>> really? �I didn't know that there was a big block S-10...
>
>
> At least he didn't have window stickers depicting Calvin visiting his
> urine upon the other manufacturers' logos, for the benefit of drivers
> even less literate than himself. Or did he have those too, and
> they're so commonplace you didn't remark upon them?
>
> I don't think GM ever made a small-block V8 S-10 etc., though I'm sure
> small-block/700R4 retrofits at various levels of sophistication were
> in the works from early days, especially since the engine choices were
> "grocery getter" and "nicer grocery getter" for the first few years.
>
> There exist big-block retrofits, but significant cutting and welding
> seems to be required for this engine and a tranny and driveline that
> can withstand it (not to mention weight distribution, chassis
> reinforcement, etc.) I'll further venture that this is mostly done
> as part of extensive modification for some drag racing classes.
>
> The platform was used for a couple of factory tuners called the
> Syclone and Typhoon (one was a pickup, the other an SUV) but ISTR that
> they had turbocharged 4.3 liter V6s, not V8s.
>
> --Joe
>
> --Joe


If an s-10 has a v8 it wasn't put there by Chevy.
From: Ad absurdum per aspera on 17 Feb 2010 11:50
> sheriff sitting *every damn morning* just looking to pull truckers over
> for side of the road inspections (seriously, it's a rare day that I
> don't see the sheriff and at least one rig pulled over on my way to work)

I'm betting that's his assignment and he doesn't pay much attention to
cars (of course, the one day you're bending the speed limit a little
on the way to work is the day he decides he needs a little
variety...) The fact that he always hides in the same spot also
suggests that he is hunting the bird of passage, since the locals and
the commuters know about him.

In the state where I live, and particularly near my city because it is
built around a major Interstate crossroads, there are special truck
cops -- a parallel agency to the state troopers with a different
reporting path. They drive silver Crown Vics (marked, but in a fairly
low-key fashion, whereas our troopers favor the Darth Vader look, and
the city cops and the deputies are more into white cars with giant
lettering in police-like shades of reflector tape) and specialize in
big-rig-related inspections and violations. One sometimes sees a
trooper or deputy hauling over a truck, but I've never seen the
silver cars doing anything else.


> I've never heard of anyone doing a BBC (not that I'm sure
> it hasn't been done, it's just clearly not as common a swap so hasn't
> filtered into my consciousness yet,) so I ASSume there's packaging
> issues trying to get it in there.

I think we're usually talking trailered race trucks, whether or not
they are, technically, street legal and registered, so nontrivial
fabrication is part of the game. Somebody who insisted on the BBC
and whose goal was daily driving, never mind use as an actual truck,
would surely be a lot better off starting with a C-2500 or somesuch
that was (or at least was closely related to) a vehicle meant to have
the rat motor.

I've driven those vehicles with the 2.8 and 4.3, and am guessing that
a good SBC and well chosen transmission would be almost an
embarrassment of riches for street use.

--Joe
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