hi. i'm trying to gather as much info on this swap as possible. I already know it will fit. My stock engine is a LG4. so i will be retaining the carburation system. My only concern is the power output i will be recieving from this engine. Many people have told me that if i want power go with a 350 or a 400. But i want to be different! everyone has a 350 or 305 camaro. besides i love the way the 327 revs up! any help would be appreciated.

 

The 327 only "revs up" if it has intake, carb, exhaust, heads, and cam to allow flow. Put LG4 stuff on top of a larger CID short block, it will rev less than the LG4 since there's still the same flow bottlenecks there always were, now you'll just run into them at a lower RPM.

If you took a LG4 and retained all of it exactly as it came, you'd end up with about the same 145 HP or so, maybe slightly more; you'd bump the torque up noticeably, by about 7-8% or so.

Everybody thinks they want to be "different", especially when they're inexperienced. Sometimes there's a reason why things that are popular, are popular. This is one of those cases. You can spend the same amount of money, use a 350 instead, and have that much more power. Being "different" by doing what you're doing means "getting beat".

 

want to be differant built a 2.5 and get it in the 12s. any dumbass can stuff a SBC in a camaro and make it preform, to one degree or another.

 

I'll have to agree with the above.

Take a ride in my '57, then in the Camaro, you'd swear the Camaro would walk all over the '57 with the way it "revs up". The time slips tell a different story, though, with the '57 about a half second faster (before the 3.73 gears) although a good 500 pounds heavier (and a whole lot less aerodynamic).

Hey, the 327 is better than a 305, no doubt. If you have one ready to go, go for it. If you have to build one, might as well start with a 350.

 

actually i wouldn't mind seeing someone get a 2.5 into the 12s as well. that would be cool.

 

Stock Eliminator cars have odd combinations. Comp Eliminator are even stranger. How about a 4 cylinder dragster running high 8's.

I saw a Stock Eliminator car. 69 4 door Impala running in Q/SA. The slowest class. It had a 283 in it and was running 16 second 1/4 miles. In showroom stock condition the car probably ran 19 or 20 second 1/4 miles.

There are many oddball combinations to try. Small engines producing high HP are not very reliable since they can only produce high HP at very high rpms. The easiest way to go fast is to reduce weight. After that, build a big engine. When you look at door cars running in the 8's or 9's, most have over 500 CID and 600+ CID is not uncommon.

You want to be different, drop in a 500" Caddy engine. Even the 472 (shorter stroke) is a powerhouse with a few performance parts.

 

craig libery use to run a e/ed with a 2.5 i believe in the 8s. i love comp cars, little engines, and odd ball combinations. if i could find a clean monza with a 2.5 i belive i'd build it. never see one at the strip but i do see a few 4 cylinder pintos.