Budgets 1977 GMC SerriaGrande "crap10"

ranch king pro 08 wrote:

The 440 is more like a big small block chevy. I would have to tip my hat to the 440. It has a big bore and short stroke. It will rev faster and have less wear. But the 454 has great torque

454's arright I just like knock Chebby. The 427 L88 was magnificent. 500+ hp and ALUMINUM heads from the factory. In the 60's. GM's mistake was getting out of racing. Nascar is how Chrysler developed the 426 Hemi, and Ford created the 427 SOHC, probably the 2 greatest engines ever made. GM never had anything to compete with those, but it's because they didn't try. Maybe they could have.

> I started gutting the interior so I can replace my steering column with a fancy tilt one

Make sure you do not defeat the purpose of the UJ or rag joint setup, which is to prevent you from getting speared in the chest from the steering column, especially if the steering box gets smashed backwards or upwards.

If you work in a repair shop long enough, you do get to sometimes see where the person held onto the steering wheel for dear life, and was still holding it while the steering column ripped free from it, and the column hit them in the chest.

Many OEM steering columns, if you remove them and take them apart, look like a bellows on the firewall end, and are designed to collapse when pressed hard either from the steering wheel side or steering box side. I do not recall seeing any in the Summit catalog that looked like that.