Why so many engines. Chevy. Why not just 350 and 454.

Why have a v6, 302, 327, 350, 396, 400, 402, and 454?

You forgot the 262 , 265 , 283 , 305 , and 307

I know. I was generalizing. Too many to list.

True. And I fforgot the 283

As well as the 427.

I see it as a because you can thing. Kind of like rifle calibers and brands of beer to choose from.

Oh yes , how'd we forget that one

1969...302

Years Back...I had a 1970 Monte with a factory 4 speed ..402..# matching..in my shop.Was a customers.

Ended up putting a used roof on it..NOS 1/4 panels...and NOS fenders.

The guy ran out of money...and pulled it out of my shop.

It got finished by someone else ..5 years later...looked good !

409 -

Do you guys know how/why the 402 came aboit?

Probably had something to do with Nascar

Hey Boss...I had a 409 in a 55 Chevy ..4 speed..when I was 18

With a single Carter AFB

I took a job as mechanic at a Chevy dealership around 1981, and was sent to a GM school in MonroVille Pa., just outside Pittsburg.

I had a 402 in my racecar at the time so I asked the instructor about them. He told me they were 396's that had bad bores, and they had alot of them so the decision was made to over bore the blocks and use them.

I read a few different rumors why the 396 was punched out to 402, so who knows the real reason anymore.

My first pickup was a Chevy with a 250 six cyl.

The 396 bad bore thing was always the story,but when I rebuilt mine the head parts were 454.

I remember in the eighties I was at the local drag strip with my 67 lemans when a guy drove in with his black 69 Camaro 302dz 4 spd . He opened the trunk and pulled out a jack and two slicks . Won a trophy , put the street tires back on and drove off

My first was a '67 Impala SS with a 300hp 327. This engines had a small journal crankshaft.