Chevy 327 300 hp
 

What years and cars is a Chevy 327 at 300 hp?

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1962 to 1965 in almost every model

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The 327/300 is a real screamer and a good runner. It will put a smile on your face.

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Thank you.

I don’t remember any running in stock eliminator and that’s why I didn’t recognize it.

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Corvette through 1967 with Holley 585




Ernie Neal
SS 354

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Wasn’t there a time they also Carter AFB. I know the 340 hp 327 Corvette had a afb.

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That engine would be fun. The '62-65 version did have the AFB, and the 461 heads. The short block was the same as the 250 horse, and the two engines had the same cam. They also had the 459 intake as well. The '65 250 horse had the 461 heads, the only thing needed to upgrade it to a 300 horse was to find the correct intake and carb. It would be fun in a '65 Chevelle, otherwise it was a Corvette or Impala powerplant.

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My memory from those day of working on and looking at friends cars with a 327/300 says AFB carb.....

Made for a very cool car back then.....327/300 4 speed in a '63-'64 Impala SS......

With a decent rear gear they were pretty snappy !!! LOL

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I was just a kid back in '63, but I remember very vividly claims that a 327/300 (say, in a Biscayne or BelAir) would give a 409/425 all it could handle. I later owned a '63 Biscayne 327/300, 4-speed, 3.50 posi and absolutely loved the car. Everybody remember the little factory tach in the "eyebrow" housing, in the middle of the instrument panel? 327/300 and 409s only, and cooler than hell.

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Not many 409's around back in my UTE but a good running Small Block would give the 409 all it could handle....

Only one I recall was a '64 Impala with a 409/340 or some HP rating like that, and it was not a real fast car.

Good running SB Vette's were the shizzle, to me anyway....Nothing could run with one...

Once Z/28's came out it was tough to top one.

I graduated HS in 1965 so I was right in the thick of the Muscle Car era and it's how I got addicted to DRAG RACING.....could not resist, it was all around me !!!

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68 Corvette with a Qjet was offered.

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On the street the 409’s were turds as they came detuned they came with double heads gaskets to lower compression and those boat anchor pistons

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The 62 Bubble Top was a nice looking car whether it had a 409 or a 327. i think NHRA lowered the 300 HP to now 265 hp for 1962. Cars only not the Corvette. So that might help and set the suspension up like a G-Body so it don't twist and it might work. Kenney Kelley

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Would the 327/300 have been available in the 65 Nova? That might have been a real land based missile.

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Yes! Never saw one though..Would have been a rocket alright.
However, @ 265 for Stock, I'd take the 4 GC version @ 241.

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I have seen four in my lifetime. Two on the streets of Little Rock '65-'68, one at Lakeland in Memphis in 1971 and a match race between a 300 hp '65 Chevy II and a 271 high perf '65 Mustang at Ozark, MO in 1966. I was too young to have any detailed memories. Other than the Chevy II spanked the Mustang pretty hard. It was a dealership put on.

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The only difference between the 250 horse and the 300 horse is the intake and the carb in '65. Now, the #579 intake is accepted on the 283/220 horse, if it is on the 327/250, then, the only difference is the carb. It might be a real easy way to have a couple classes covered. It would be easy horsepower to just switch carbs.

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didn't herman chapman run one in the 70's?

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250 hp... Also, Bobby Warren, Ricky Klarr, Elisha Boyd, Joe DeLorenzo, George Duff, Chuck Gallager...several more.

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On the 65 Nova 250 hp 327 vs the 300 hp what do you think the afb is worth over the 4 jet? 2 tenths?

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I've got a pretty much all original 1965 327/300hp motor intake to pan $600
Rich Boyle
631-461-6761

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So i have to respond to this . I am a sucker for cars that i have actually owned . But i owned a new , well 6mo. old 62 impala SS. 327-300Hp
4spd. 4:11 posi It had the big AFB carb on an Aluminum manifold ,from the factory.With a set of atlas Bucron tires (cadillac-size) i beat every 409 425 i raced. on the street. And i was only a Sr in high school. Dont know if there were other 300horse cars that had the Al intake but mine did.

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Not to squelch a good thread, but who was tuning the 409's back then? I had a very stock 409/425 horse that was balanced, OEM replacement cam,correct carbs F&R, 4:88 gears, a Muncie wide ratio 4 speed, fender well headers' one piece drive shaft,10 inch by 29.5" slicks, and it would go 12.70's very reliably, 12.66 on one occasion.
I would leave about six grand and shift at 5300. RPMing the motor actually slowed the car down because the torque curve of that motor was pretty low RPM. We tried a Powerglide with a stocker converter and it picked up about half a second. It wasn't the ultimate horsepower motor, but it ran pretty good for what it was.

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All the 409 I saw and raced on the street were single 4 Brl.
409/340HP. The were some real Pigs and easy money.

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Even on the street in the Detroit area the Ford 406’s were quicker than the 62 409/409 as very few and had the ambition to pull the heads and get rid of the dual head gaskets and change the factory pistons to the Jhans after market pistons. According to Jere Stahl we’re worth 40 Hp. He was just starting to build headers in his Lenoard gas station in Romulus, mi on the Conner of Huron River Dr and Northline rd.

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I was always looking for 300 horse impala's and a sure sign was the 2 1/2 in rams horns.

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What vehicles was it available in in 1965? I know the Corvette and I think the Malibu bodies, was it also a 1965 Nova option or a Impala, Biscayne, Bel Air option too? Seems to be an under rated engine from that era.

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All Chevy II's, not just the Nova..
All full size too.