Just wondering...seems like small block and chevy go hand in hand...
2006-08-09 18:23:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Chevrolet
Yes..
2006-08-09 18:29:28 · answer #1 · answered by Dbl Monday 4 · 0⤊ 6⤋
"Smallblock" is simply a nickname that car buffs gave to a couple families of engines. Chevrolet did come out with the first engine to get that nickname - the Ford and Chrysler smallblocks were both '60s era developments. But there were several other V8 engines of comparable size and similar design on the market when the smallblock Chevy first appeared.
The first V8 to have an engine block - rather than being assembled from separate cylinders like an old air cooled VW engine - was the Ford Flathead V8.
2006-08-10 11:56:30 · answer #2 · answered by Mad Scientist Matt 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know the chevy is the first brand to use the term "small block". It was only called the chevy v8 though until 1958 when the 348 "W-head" engine came out in the impalla. This engine was the smaller version of the later fabulous 409, and the first chevy "big block".
2006-08-10 12:29:30 · answer #3 · answered by sethle99 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chevy didn't invent the V8. Small Block is only a term that GM and GM fans use to describe the difference between the (RAT) Big Block 348ci -396-427 engines and the (Mouse) Small block 265, 283, 327, 350,400 ci engines.
There was many small V8's the most famous was Fords V8 Flatheads.
I am a fan of the GM small block (Mouse), they have stood the test of time.
Yours: Grumpy
2006-08-10 01:48:45 · answer #4 · answered by Grumpy 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If memory serves me, MOPAR came out with one about 1955 or '56 (a year earlier in Canada), beating Chevy by about a year.
2006-08-10 10:18:45 · answer #5 · answered by ax2usn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1904 Rolls-Royce Legalimit had the first v8 it was a 3.5liter and cady was the first american v8 in 1914 and ford had its flathead v8(hot rod favorite) since 1932
2006-08-10 01:33:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
NO!!!! But Chevy did invent the "Junk V8"!!!!!
2006-08-10 12:37:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
not necerarilly, though they were the first to construct the 307 small block.
2006-08-10 06:11:08 · answer #8 · answered by WolfBound 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yaa they did buddy (im a chevy person)...
2006-08-10 09:56:22 · answer #9 · answered by 69CamaroSS 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋