From: bednarek@picard.med.ge.com (Dennis Bednarek Mfg 4-6971)
Subject: Re: small block heads
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 07:01:36 GMT


Well it sounds like the SAAAAAAAAAABster really started another, one going.

Ted Brooks (brooks@mcnc.org) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec18.104225.19936@mr.med.ge.com>
: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
: >Dennis Bednarek Mfg 4-6971 (bednarek@picard.med.ge.com) wrote:
: >: Michael A Kreiberg (kreibema@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu) wrote:
: >: : Hi there,
: >: : 
: >: : I'm looking for a pair of small block chevy fuelie heads.
: >: : Either 1.94x1.5 or 2.02x1.6 the 461 or 462 casting with the 64cc  
: >: : combustion chambers.
: >: : 
: >
: >I'm a fireman in a small rural Wisconsin town.  We have a '57 Chevy
: >firetruck, with the fuelie engine, and the heads you want.  The truck
: >has 12,500 miles on it.  Oil gets changed every few months, or 25 miles,
: >whichever comes first!

Well it sounds like we have a truck that needs to be kept under lock and
key here as well as have an armed guard.  There are loads of specialized
auto thiefs that probably just located a gold mine.

: >
: >You can't have it though, I asked about that a while ago.  It sure runs
: >nice, though, and has decent power considering it's hauling a firetruck 
: >around. 
: >
Well if it produces that much power in a truck it may be a special truck
version.  The Fuel Injected engines of that day were fairly heavily cammed
and usually lacked bottom end torque.  On a truck even 4.56 gears probably
wouldn't make up for that loss.

: Do they realize what they have there???? A complete, solid, number-matching
: fuelie engine is probably worth about $10K, if the engine #s would match a
: a '57 car or Corvette. I've seen plenty of fuelie and 2x4's setups without
: a block asking $6k (of course who knows what they _sold_ for). If I were 
: that fire department, I'd consider either selling that engine, or not
: advertise the fact that there's one sitting around. That '57 engine is 
: worth more than my whole '55 car!

Strongl agree here.  But remember the words matching serial numbers.  If
those numbers don't match the value is less than half of what you could
have gotten.  I wonder what the market value is on firetrucks with fuely
engines.  Probably not as much as a fuely NOMAD.
: 
: I would have to agree with the previous posters on this topic. If you're
: not needing them for an authentic restoration, and willing to pay dearly
: for the priviledge, it's best to look for later model or aftermarket
: high performance head.
:  
: Ted Brooks
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