Re: 318/360

From: |< R |> (krp@netnitco.net)
Date: Thu Nov 05 1998 - 11:10:06 EST


From: whiskyjack@iname.com
Date sent: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:18:15 -0500 (EST)
To: DML <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Subject: DML: 318/360
Send reply to: dakota-truck@buffnet.net

>
> Could it be because the 318/360's are TRUCK engines designed for long life
> and durability under heavy loads? Whereas you're comparing them to
> performance car engines. Even in the 'olden days' (60's, 70's) the 360 was
> never a performance engines. There was the 340 and 383.

Those engines were gone when the 360 came along (as the
replacement for the 340). The 360 was the performance small block
after the 340 was gone ('74 model year I believe the 360 was born).

|{eith R. Phelps

Cat..... the other white meat.



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